Sir, T-Mobile is so 'keen to work with residents' (Report, June 9) over its plans to site a phone mast on the Chester Arms pub in Iffley Fields that it refused to come to our public meeting at SS Mary and John School to discuss the issue.

T-Mobile is so keen to work with local residents that it installed cabling and scaffolding before any of those local residents were aware that T-Mobile was planning to put a mobile phone base station on the Chester Arms.

It is so keen to work with Iffley Fields residents that they found out about the plans for the Chester Arms from residents in South Oxford who were attending a 'consultation' over similar plans for the Marlborough Arms. It is so keen to work with us that it was not aware that there was a primary school and children's playground within a stone's throw of the Chester Arms.

It is in fact, so keen to work with East Oxford residents that it thinks the Chester Arms is in South Oxford. At our very well attended public meeting, concern was expressed not just over this development, but over the proliferation of mobile phone masts and the lack of regulation by Government of telecommunications technology.

We call on the Government to pass much tougher laws reining in the technology and on Oxford City Council to be much more proactive in monitoring and as far as possible controlling the positioning and emissions of mobile phone base stations.

And we hope that T-Mobile will be keen enough on working with local residents to find a more appropriate location for their masts.

Mari Girling, Chairman, Chris Clifford, Secretary, Iffley Field Residents' Association