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Planning Authority
Clearing for infrastructure corridors
and facilities is minimised to limit
visible prominence while
responding to functional and safety
requirements.
Infrastructure:
avoids skyline positions (i.e. where
a structure would be seen in
silhouette);
crosses hills diagonal to the
principal slope or
crosses at the low point of a
saddle between hills; or
is located around the base of
hills or along the edge of
existing clearings;
unless a need to do otherwise is
demonstrated.
Equipment housing and other
visually intrusive infrastructure is
screened or concealed from public
areas.
The height of freestanding aerials,
towers and masts is within the
following limits:
rural areas 60m
industrial areas 45m
commercial areas 40m
residential areas 20m
Complies – No clearing is proposed
as part of the application.
Complies – The proposal is
generally consistent with these
requirements. The tower is not
proposed to be located on a skyline
or ridgeline position. It is located
in an elevated position, however,
as outlined the towers is required
to be of a certain height to enable
them to operate effectively within
their own infrastructure network.
As discussed, the proposed tower
is not expected be unduly
obtrusive in the landscape, and,
given their operational
requirements, the application is
considered to demonstrate the
need to locate the tower as
proposed.
Complies – the base of the tower is
considered to be screened
effectively from public areas,
namely Bourke Road and
Murchison Highway / Yolla. The
location and screening measures
used to achieve this have been
outlined previously in this report.
Complies - The height of the tower
is to be 40 metres with a slimline
pole.
Telecommunications infrastructure
may only exceed specified height
limits if:
a pattern of infrastructure or
vegetation above the specified
height limit exists in a particular
location; and
it has no adverse impact on heritage
or ecological values or visual
amenity.
Waratah-Wynyard Council – Minutes Ordinary Meeting – 19 November 2012 – Page 302