Mobile phone operator, Vodafone have approached Lambeth Living to put new mobile phone masts on top of one the estate blocks. This has quickly been ruled out by Weir Estate Residents Association Executive Officers who are elected to represent the views of Weir Estate Residents.

Weir Estate already has a number of phone masts on a number of its blocks and this has raised concerns by those living in and around the antennas. Weir Estate has however benefited from the income generated by having the aerials, which has enabled the association to improve the area and make such projects as the Weir Link a success.

With Vodafone taking an interest in installing new aerials on the roof of Dan Bryant House, this is felt to be one mast too far and has been dismissed by officers at WERA.

WERA’s Spokesman said of the proposals “WERA’s Executive Committee are here to work for the residents on the estate. With Weir Estate’s current mobile phone masts already having caused controversy in the past, the decision was taken that the residents would not want any further masts on the estate.”

Lambeth Living’s Strategic Housing Manager agreed that there would be no need to continue with the plans and will ensure that further masts by the mobile phone company would not appear on top of Dan Bryant House “If that’s your [WERA’s] view I can’t see the point of going through a consultation exercise and will ensure this is relayed to the mobile phone companies agents”

Current masts contracts are understood to have vanished and nobody knows who is responsible for the existing masts and these have blighted some resident’s lives.