CAMPAIGNERS are fighting against a mobile phone mast which they claim was put up in their neighbourhood without proper notification.

Residents are furious and want a One2One with the mobile phone company, who they say never put up a notice to let the families nearby know about the plans.

Mobile phone giants One2One put up the mast last week on the A40, opposite Walk Wood Rise, in Beaconsfield, and, because it is below 15m tall, the company does not need planning permission.

However, residents were furious because they did not see a notice near to the site and Beaconsfield Town Council was only told about the mast when it had already been given approval by South Bucks District Council.

Mother-of-one Angeala Curtis, of Walk Wood Rise, Beaconsfield, is worried about the safety of her eight-year-old son.

She said: 'I walk past this mast every day and have never seen a notice anywhere. This horrendous thing overlooks my bedroom window and I have a young son. How is this going to affect him?

'There are other families with young children and we are sick of Beaconsfield becoming a dumping ground for these things.'

Beaconsfield Town Council has already written to the district council to say that it wants notification of any masts in the area.

Residents set up The Wattleton Park Action Group last year when they had to battle against a massive Christmas tree-style mobile mast on a plot of land on the A40 near to the site.

Jim Montgomery, 68, a member of the group, said: 'We have seen all this before. Mobile phone masts are monstrosities which are swarming the place and the only way to do anything about it is civic protest.'

A spokesman for One2One said that it employed agents to put up the notices in a visible place and he said he had reason to believe they had not carried this out at the site.