Hurstville REF - Transport for NSW - NSW Government

Principle 2: Telecommunications facilities should be co-located wherever practical.Principle(a) Telecommunications lines are to belocated, as far as practical, underground orwithin an existing underground conduit orduct.(b) Overhead lines, antennas and ancillarytelecommunications facilities should, wherepractical, be co-located or attached to existingstructures such as buildings, public utilitystructures, poles, towers or other radiocommunications equipment to minimise theproliferation of telecommunication facilitiesand unnecessary clutter.(c) Towers may be extended for the purposesof co-location.(d) The extension of an existing tower mustbe considered as a practical co-locationsolution prior to building new towers.(e) If a facility is proposed not to be colocatedthe proponent must demonstrate thatco-location is not practicable.(f) If the development is for a co-locationpurpose, then new telecommunications facilitymust be designed, installed and operated sothat the resultant cumulative levels of radiofrequency emissions of the co-locatedtelecommunications facilities are within themaximum human exposure levels set out inthe Radiation Protection Standard.ProposalThe fibre connections for the DTRS network willbe in existing conduits or in new undergroundconduits wherever feasible or possible.Co-location on other communications towershas been considered. No other towers weredeemed appropriate or in a location to providesufficient network coverage, as such a newmonopole is proposed (refer Section 3.5).The proposal does not involve the use of anexisting tower. The extension of existing towersin the area was considered and deemedunsuitable.The proposal does not involve the use of anexisting tower.There are no suitable communications towersin the target coverage area that would satisfythe coverage objectives as well as the networkrequirements of the DTRS project.Co-location is not proposed.Page 68 of 75