Glastonbury Council asked to reaffirm 2019 Precautionary Principle position on proposed 22.85-metre 4G/5G mast at Thomas Way

📡 Glastonbury Council asked to reaffirm 2019 Precautionary Principle position on proposed 22.85-metre 4G/5G mast at Thomas Way

September 11, 2026 (EMFS)

Sep 9, 2026 (original)

Source: A Better Way with Dr Tess Lawrie & Friends

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Tess Lawrie's Substack reports that Glastonbury Town Council, in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, heard residents at its 8 September 2026 Full Council meeting ask councillors to reaffirm and apply the Council's 2019/2020 Precautionary Principle position to application 2026/1478/TEL, a 22.85-metre lattice tower with six antennas at Thomas Way Industrial Estate. Speakers argued that the applicant's ICNIRP self-certificate does not disclose public exclusion zones or address material evidence outside ICNIRP's scope, and pointed to Mendip District Council's 2022 refusal of a 20-metre 5G monopole in Frome as a Somerset precedent for weighing public-health evidence in siting decisions.

"Glastonbury Town Hall was packed for the Full Council meeting on Tuesday 8 September 2026. Councillors were asked to put the Council's landmark 2019/2020 work on the Precautionary Principle into practice as Somerset Council considers a proposed 22.85-metre 4G/5G mast at Thomas Way."

— A Better Way with Dr Tess Lawrie & Friends

"That certificate does not itself show where the public exclusion zones lie, whether every applicable ICNIRP restriction has been assessed, or how the decision-maker has treated material evidence outside ICNIRP's scope."

— A Better Way with Dr Tess Lawrie & Friends

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📡 Glastonbury Council asked to reaffirm 2019 Precautionary Principle position on proposed 22.85-metre 4G/5G mast at Thomas Way

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