NBN Planning Report_Cooran

                                                       This candidate comprised a new 50
 D             Jampot Creek Road, Cooran   New 50 m+
                                                       m (minimum) high monopole on a
                                           monopole
               Lot 210 on NPW833                       371 ha property zoned as ‘Mary
                                                       River Catchment - Open Space
                                                       Conservation’ under The Noosa Plan
                                                       2009. The subject site forms part of
                                                       the Tuchekoi National Park and is a
                                                       heavily forested area.

                                                       NBN Co endeavours to locate
                                                       facilities away from environmentally
                                                       sensitive locations, such as National
                                                       Parks and State Forests, which are
                                                       often protected at a National or
                                                       State level. Additionally, this location
                                                       has limited access to power, and
                                                       would require significant vegetation
                                                       removal to establish a cleared
                                                       corridor for power and access.
                                                       Therefore, there is a low degree of
                                                       confidence in locating the proposed
                                                       facility within the Tuchekoi National
                                                       Park would achieve a better planning
                                                       outcome.

                                                       A telecommunications facility
                                                       located within the Tuchekoi National
                                                       Park would require consent from the
                                                       Department of Natural Resources
                                                       and Mines (DNRM). DNRM requires
                                                       applicants to demonstrate that there
                                                       were no suitable alternative sites
                                                       available outside of the national park
                                                       as part of their assessment and
                                                       consent to allowing
                                                       telecommunications providers access
                                                       to a national park. For this reason,
                                                       NBN would not pass this basic
                                                       criterion for a new facility at Cooran.

                                                       Technically, this candidate
                                                       represented a poor location to
                                                       deliver reliable wireless broadband
                                                       services to the rural residential areas
                                                       of Cooran as it is more than 2km
                                                       from the centre of the rural
                                                       residential development, and more
                                                       than 3km from residences on the far
                                                       side of Coles Creek Rd. Both the
                                                       quality of the signal and the capacity
                                                       of the proposed facility (ability to
                                                       service simultaneous users) would be
                                                       compromised.




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