A 30-METRE high tower is planned for Windermere as part of Ballarat’s National Broadband Network coup.
If approved, the tower will be the Ballarat region’s NBN transmission hub.
In October, Ballarat was announced as one of only 28 sites to receive NBN in the next 12 months, edging out other regional centres such as Geelong and Bendigo.
A planning application was recently lodged with Ballarat City Council by NBN Co Limited, the federal government company established to design, build and operate NBN across Australia.
NBN Co Limited hopes to build the tower at Lot 2, Remembrance Drive, Windermere, off Madden Road.
It will include a 30-metre-high pole, a parabolic dish antenna, three panel antennas and an equipment shelter at ground level, plus protective fencing. If approved by council, it will be built on a 21-hectare site and is expected to cost about $180,000.
The council’s north ward councillor John Philips said the site was fairly isolated and he hadn’t received any complaints from nearby residents.
“Where it is, I’m not sure it’s going to worry anyone too much,” Cr Philips said.
Windermere is one of the first fixed wireless sites chosen as part of the NBN roll-out across Australia. Works are already under way at Bacchus Marsh, South Morang and Brunswick.
The National Broadband Network will deliver high-speed broadband across Australian by 2015.
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