ARLA/CLUSTER: Reforma estadual na Australia poem em causa as antenas dos radioamadoresl.

[João Gonçalves Costa]

Battle continues over amateur radio antenna restrictions in NSW
The battle over NSW planning restrictions on amateur radio antenna masts continues apace.

As I reminded readers last week, the NSW Government is undertaking comprehensive reform to its planning laws - the first review in more than 30 years.

But the State's department of Planning and Infrastructure has told the
Sydney Morning Herald that they're not planning any changes to amateur radio aerial regulation.

A spokesman told journalist Nicole Hasham from the Sydney Morning Herald that ''allowing higher aerials without a detailed development application process could cause unacceptable streetscape and neighbourhood safety issues''.

This is in a story published in the Sydney Morning Herald on page 5 of the Wednesday 31st October issue. You'll find a link on the WIA website. Or go to the SMH website and enter Amateur Radio into the search panel.

The story is headlined: "Amateur radio buffs battle to get messages through council red tape".

Amateurs of NSW, you need to tell the planning reform bureaucrats that this attitude makes you mad as hell and you're not going to take it anymore !

Many of you made submissions when the whole process opened up a year ago.

If you sent a submission last year, you need to do it again. And get all
your mates to write and send a submission.

It isn't hard. Full details of how to do it are on the WIA website under
"Antenna Masts in NSW - More Submissions Required".

It's time to express your disappointment at being left out of the planning
reforms. You have until close of business on Friday 9th November - that's this coming Friday.

In the meantime, the WIA has lodged a submission to the Local Government Regulation Review, which is now on the WIA website news under "Antenna Masts in NSW". The submission has been published on the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal website.

Amateurs of NSW - the battle has only just begun. Get cracking !

There'll be more to do once you've sent this lot of submissions. I will
reveal more in the weeks to come.

In the meantime, I'd like to thank those who helped get the Sydney Morning Herald story together: the St George, Manly-Waringah and Waverley Amateur Radio Societies, plus Mark Chapman VK2MP, Compton Allen VK2HRX and Jim Linton VK3PC.

Roger Harrison VK2ZRH



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