4G for people, not wild places
The John Muir Trust and Mountaineering Scotland are co-leading a coalition of concern. We are campaigning to pause and review a UK Government digital infrastructure project that will see countless telecoms masts erected in the nation’s most wild places for the benefit of… nobody.
It is called the Shared Rural Network (SRN). Currently it risks wasting public money and damaging wild places, undermining the benefits they deliver for wildlife and people.
Read on to learn more and find out how you can help.
What is this Shared Rural Network project?
Why are we concerned and what are we asking for?
Find out more
Take action – ask the UK Government to pause the rollout of the Shared Rural Network
This project might have been designed with the best intentions – to offer every rural community the opportunity of 21st century digital connection.
But the approach taken is the wrong one. We are calling for 100% coverage for all rural households, business premises and transport routes instead of the current target of 95% geographical coverage which means building useless masts in inhabited areas of wild land.,
The revised target we are proposing would ensure every rural community and its visitors benefit from digital connectivity while also protecting our fragile and finite wild places for the enjoyment of all.
If you agree and want to help, the most powerful action you can take is to write to the UK Minister urgently asking him to review the geographical target of the Shared Rural Network.
Three steps:
- Find inspiration to write your letter here. Coalition asks UK Government to review haphazard telecoms mast rollout (johnmuirtrust.org)
- Write your letter to Rt Hon Julia Lopez MP, Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure (correspondence@dsit.gov.uk).
- In addition, consider sending a copy of your letter to the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (eacom@parliament.uk).
Go further – object to planning applications that will destroy wild places
The John Muir Trust is monitoring all development proposals in wild places. We are keeping track and objecting to those which are most harmful. Help us by sending in your own objections.
