Review of Environmental Factors - Transport for NSW - NSW ...

Principal(g) A telecommunications facility should belocated so as to minimise or avoid theobstruction of a significant view of a heritageitem or place, a landmark, a streetscape, vistaor a panorama, whether viewed from public orprivate land.(h) The relevant local government authoritymust be consulted where the pruning, lopping,or removal of any tree or other vegetationwould contravene a Tree Preservation Orderapplying to the land or where a permit ordevelopment consent is required.(i) A telecommunications facility that is nolonger required is to be removed and the siterestored, to a condition that is similar to itscondition before the facility was constructed.(j) The siting and design oftelecommunications facilities should be inaccordance with any relevant Industry DesignGuides.ProposalThe proposed facility will not block orsignificantly obstruct any views of heritageitems or other landmarks of state significance.The antennas are to be affixed to an existingmast and will not represent a dominantstructure in the view lines of people occupyingthe residential properties in the surroundingarea.No trees will be removed.Should the facility ever become redundant, thevarious elements will be decommissioned andremoved. Following removal, the land will berestored as close as practicable to itscondition before work began.The proposed design has been completedusing “best industry practice” and complieswith the relevant standards regardingstructural engineering, EME and constructionprocedures.Principle 2: Telecommunications facilities should be co-located wherever practical.Principal(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 existingProposalThe fibre connections for the DTRS networkwill be in existing conduits or in newunderground conduits wherever feasible orpossible.The antennas are being affixed to an existingMetroNet mast.Page 55 of 64