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• ON June 24 a firm arrived to inspect the roof of Monmouth House in Kentish Town.

They said it was to survey it for the possible installation of 5G mobile phone masts and that they were conducting similar surveys to a number of other roofs in addition to ours.

Why is this still happening?

In April 2019 there was an attempt to relocate similar phone masts that had been installed without permission on the roof of a solicitor’s office close to the Raglan Estate.

Monmouth House was the intended target for this relocation. The masts were instead relocated to a commercial premises further north up Kentish Town Road.

There is no safe location for mobile phone masts, but the relocation to commercial premises was the least worst option, given that Monmouth House is a residential tower block located just yards from a primary school (St Patrick’s).

The precedent has been set. This can and must happen again. These 5G phone masts clearly do not have to be put on residential buildings.

Those that are continually targeted also happen to be Camden Council owned residential buildings. Camden and the mobile phone giants need to once again get on with finding the least worst option.

LOUIS LOIZOU
Raglan Street, NW5