Ian Jarvis on EMF and 5G
It's Not Just Me
We have a small core team as well as a collection of individuals and groups working around the country, both on their own and with us. Ian speaks regularly around the UK, thus helping to build a larger network of like-minded people.
We share our information and knowledge freely here on this website as well as in regular meetings.
What We Do
Our work is about ACTION.
Our main focus is on planning applications for new telecommunications masts (base stations), which are constantly increasing in number. Generally, people are aware of what masts are, but what they are not so familiar with is the non-ionising radiation (NIR ie RFR/EMF for more see in Documents) emitted from these masts, which is invisible, silent and, for most of us, not felt.
We focus on the planning system as a legal and mostly straightforward way of stopping masts being approved. Our efforts are definitely succeeding as the rate of applications being refused is increasing. We are hoping that our new Government does not change planning laws, which could mean we lose our right to object to new masts.
WITH YOUR HELP, we can continue to make a difference.
The Real Value of the Gunning Principles
Three UK Limited and Fraud
This section is being updated.
For information go to the contacts section.
Documents
The documents below can all be downloaded to your own computer. This is recommended so that you have access to them even when you don’t have an internet connection. The documents are all about the UK planning system. The system does have many faults, but it is the one that we have and within which we must work.
As part of our work, we try to influence changes. Sections of many of the documents have been highlighted to emphasise what I think are the important points and they will also have a link to the on-line source so you can get a ‘clean’ copy should you wish.
Government Related
The National Planning Policy Framework
This is the current version, released in December 2023, with highlights of what Ian considers important. Note especially that the WHOLE of the document applies to ALL types of Application.
Code of Practice for Wireless Networks (England)
About General Permitted Development
Note particularly on Page 9 “All new masts will still require the prior approval of the local planning authority”
New Conversations: Includes (p34) The Gunning Principles (Case Law) on Consultation
2018 Consultation Principles: a useful Summary document of general relevance
Planning
Guidelines for Objections
* 21/4/2025 UPDATE *
Guideline Strategy
Objections Template (editable)
Mobile UK – A Paper from the industry often submitted as part of an application. Highlights in the paper are made by Ian, and you can attach it to your objections as part of your rebuttal of claims. Sometimes you will see a paper from the institute of Engineering and Technology or our Government, both of which are equally as false.
Factsheets
These Factsheets, drafted by Judith, are not all fully proofed.
Please let us know of any errors with an email to the mentors’ address in Contacts.
On the 500 meter minimum distance between a mast and a residence
Children and Schools
Locating Masts and Distances From Schools etc.
StreetHubs
Real-Life 5G Case Studies
How Appeals Work
* 02/09/25 UPDATE *
Speculative Applications and ICON Towers Ltd
Technical Standards
ICNIRP 2020 Guideline
2020 ICNIRP Principles
ICBE Rebuttal Paper
Summary of ICNIRP Faults
Solar Not-Farms (Interchangeably Factories or Parks)
We must recognise that these are NOT FARMS – anything but! It may seem trivial but it is great marketing to call them ‘farms’ or ‘parks’ as it sounds so much nicer than an industrial scale electricity generating plant which is what they really are. That’s why we all need to call them out for what they are.
These too emit NIR and they also need planning permission. They need batteries too, usually as a BESS (Battery/Bulk Energy Storage System) which can be sited adjacent to the panels or any distance away. The furthest I have seen to date is 16 miles which will involve digging a trench all the way and a very large cable to carry the current which itself will affect the ground. Before the power reaches you it can lose 10% of what was generated at the panel AND the panels get less effective year by year.
Many issues relating to solar not-farms are the same for wind not-farms (electricity generating plants) well.
Other issues are CO2 emissions over the entire life cycle, chemical pollution of the ground and water, land use taken from farming, effectively a ‘brown field site’ after it is closed and disposed plus increased costs to us.
The two downloads are each excellent, one is general information from the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) and the other focuses on the chemicals leached onto the ground.
This https://www.7000acres.co.uk/ is an excellent website and lists many places where there is a proposal or an application. Some will have two applications; one for the BESS and one for the panels.
Why does electricity cost so much today?
an edited précis from an article by Dr John Fernley, October 2024
“PEAK electricity demand in Britain is during winter when we need to heat our homes, offices, shops, warehouses and factories, but in the British winter, solar farms produce almost no electricity. This is because it is dark for around 16 hours a day, and when the sun does appear, it is weak and can be hidden behind thick cloud. Spring and autumn are not quite so bad.
Because of this there will need to be back-up electricity generation. Two generation facilities will be needed, one for the summer (including but not only solar) and one for the winter (fossil fuel or nuclear). Again increasing electricity bills for us, not cutting them.
Solar energy may make sense in some countries, but building solar factories in Britain is completely brainless.
Subsidies to the companies also increase prices yet Ed Milliband, the Energy Secretary claims that building solar farms (like Sunnica in East Anglia) will ‘cut bills for families.’ I think not, our charges are amongst the highest in the world, five times as much as China, and twice as much as the USA.
The Government wants Britain to be a world leader in Net Zero but Britain is responsible for only one per cent of global CO2 emissions, thus it would have no measurable global impact whatsoever.
If we include everything from mining to disposal they don’t even reduceCO2 emissions. Traditional power stations are both cheap and reliable, and they work every hour of every day, summer and winter. They have their downsides of course as does every electricity generating system we have so far put into widespread use.”
Surely some of those de-commissioned generators could be restarted given the will?
Background Articles
Lancet Article on Planetary Electromagnetic Pollution
Effects on Unregulated Digitalization on Health and Democracy, a paper by the World Council for Health
Hospitals and EMF Safety
I wrote this for David when he had an emergency operation at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. It was clear that none of the patient facing staff, including consultants and nurses, had the faintest clue about how to deal with EMF sensitive patients. There are so many devices, medical and non-medical sending out their radiation through the wards.
I went through the ICNIRP Guideline and picked out all the bits that could relate to a hospital patient, adding my comments.
Please print it and share with hospital staff.
Videos
Tutorial 1 -
How to Find Telecoms
Planning Applications
Tutorial 1A -
Only for Those Helping with the ICNIRP Searches
Tutorial 2 -
Looking Through an Application
Tutorial 3 -
Making a Comment
Going Wired Without Tears
Part 1
Going Wired Without Tears
Part 2
Ian with Jo Whitaker
Setting the Record Straight with Colchester Council and the local newspapers with Rachal and Carinna
Ian Talking to Richard Vobes About Dissolved Companies
Related and Advice
There are also many other places you can go for additional information on masts and planning. Whether you want health information, technical data or specifications, ideas about protection or harmonisers, leaflet ideas or to download stickers to put on cabinets, legal actions you can take (and info on some that are being taken), there is a site to help. You can even learn who “SAM” is.
Contacts
Note that we are volunteers, so please be patient if you do not get an immediate response.
We will get back to you asap.
I will travel anywhere in the UK to give a presentation about EMF and health, 5G and other Gs, Solar Not-Farms and Artificial Intelligence. None of these are technical in nature so if you freeze at the thought of a talk that includes technical topics, don’t worry, I’ve had many people tell me that, for once, they understood it.
Ian makes no charge but does ask for donations and maybe a bed for the night.
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Sometimes you need help, especially when you are just beginning or you meet something in an application you have not seen before. The following email is for such occasions. Currently we have four mentors, all volunteers, who do tremendous work in supporting you, so that next time you will be able to do it yourself. With demand as it is at the moment they are under strain so please be patient.
general.enquiries.and.mentors@gmail.com
Incidentally, you will get a faster response by mailing here than contacting Ian directly. If needed, they will pass any requests on to him.
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We have a special website, www.estherslist.org which holds summaries of applications and appeals (for masts, street hubs, solar non-farms, BESS) that we know about. We invite you to add your own applications here. Each summary provides sufficient information to help others write an objection for a given application. This way, other people can help you in fighting your application and to return the favour, you can send an objection in for someone else
There is a simple registration process to help keep the site secure. An earlier version and resources, hosted on a shared website, was removed without notice. That’s why we created this one. Note that you can comment on any planning application no matter where it is in the UK. When you comment it’s worth making the argument that, that this is a national matter as the base stations are being rolled out nationally (though not specified as critical infrastructure) and they will all be connected.
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