Fair Go: Residents ‘livid’ after cellphone towers put up near their properties, spoiling pristine views

What rights do residents have if a neighbour wants to allow a new cellphone tower to be installed on their property?

This was the issue faced by Ross and Bronwyn Minehan, who, after buying a property in Canterbury, found a work crew erecting one of the towers just a few metres from their boundary.

As shown TVNZ 1’s Fair Go programme last night, the new Spark tower was necessary, the company said, because it would patch up a “black spot” in coverage.

Improvements to rural broadband coverage will see about 450 of the new towers put in across the country.

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