The Guideline explains the state-wide planning provisions and development controls for telecommunication facilities in NSW.
We have highlighted the points that Department of Planning and Environment (DPIE) have failed to meet
Principle 1: Design and site telecommunications facilities to minimise visual impact.
b. Minimise the visual impact of telecommunications facilities, reduce visual clutter (particularly on tops of buildings) and ensure physical dimensions (including support mounts) are sympathetic to the scale and height of the building to which it is to be attached and to adjacent buildings.
e. Locate and design a telecommunications facility in a way that responds to its setting (rural, residential, industrial or commercial).
f. Site and design a telecommunications facility located on or adjacent to a listed heritage item or within a heritage conservation area with external colours, finishes and scale sympathetic to the heritage item or conservation area.
g. Locate telecommunications facilities to minimise or avoid obstructing significant views of a heritage item or place, a landmark, a streetscape, vista or a panorama, whether viewed from public or private land.
m. Assess potential visual impact in alternative site assessments.
They have not taken the effects on our neighbourhood and our natural landscape:
The proposal does not conserve the natural bushland character of the landscape surrounding the existing urban development in this locality
Excessive visual impact of the development on the landscape, particularly when viewed from the street and surrounding properties.
Impacts on views and vistas of natural bushland obtained from Blaxlands Ridge Road.