Phone mast income for churches approved
Howard Lake | 13 September 2007 | News
Churches in England will now be able to erect mobile phone masts in their steeples and towers and earn around £5,000 a year from mobile phone operators.
The move follows a successful appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Court of the Arches by the Reverend Tom Page, rector of the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Chingford, East London. He wanted to install a T-Mobile mast, but opponents had previously objected that this meant that churches could thereby be involved in distributing or relaying pornography to children. The Court’s clarification rejected this argument.
According to The Times’ Churches get the OK for phone masts, fewer than 200 of the 16,000 Anglican churches have a mast installation, and dozens of churches were waiting for the outcome of the appeal.
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