ANGRY residents have formed an action group to fight plans for a mobile phone mast at a tennis club.

Sundridge Park Lawn Tennis and Squash Club, in Lawn Close, Bromley, granted BTCellnet permission to erect a 15-metre mast on its land.

But residents, including those from Garden Road's conservation area which contains arts and crafts houses built around 1910, are concerned about the visual impact and potential health risks.

Alex Anderson, 69, of Lawn Close, said: "Visually, the mast will look horrendous and there's no way you can assess the long-term health effects.

"The club's members come for an hour to play tennis but we will have to live with it every day."

Club chairman Geoffrey Stevenson said: "I don't see how what is basically an overgrown telephone pole will be offensive to residents.

"The masts have to go somewhere and wherever they go they are visible."

A BTCellnet spokesman said: "We are more than willing to talk to residents about their health fears.

"We're fairly confident further investigations into masts will confirm there are no health effects from radio frequencies."

A council spokesman said: "At 15 metres, the mast will be higher than the lighting columns on the courts, so we have to decide whether this will have an undue impact on the nearest residents."

The council will decide whether to approve the mast by the end of February.