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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Battle continues over amateur radio antenna restrictions in NSW
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The battle over NSW planning restrictions on amateur radio antenna masts continues apace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But the State’s department of Planning and Infrastructure has told the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sydney Morning Herald that they’re not planning any changes to amateur radio aerial regulation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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''.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The story is headlined: “Amateur radio buffs battle to get messages through council red tape”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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 !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Many of you made submissions when the whole process opened up a year ago.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If you sent a submission last year, you need to do it again. And get all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">your mates to write and send a submission.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It isn’t hard. Full details of how to do it are on the WIA website under<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“Antenna Masts in NSW – More Submissions Required”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It’s time to express your disappointment at being left out of the planning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">reforms. You have until close of business on Friday 9th November – that’s this coming Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Amateurs of NSW – the battle has only just begun. Get cracking !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There’ll be more to do once you’ve sent this lot of submissions. I will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">reveal more in the weeks to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Roger Harrison VK2ZRH<o:p></o:p></p>
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