Shellharbour City Council, DA 0732/2026

A 35 metre phone tower is proposed beside Milford Way and Bushranger Parade

Objections close4.30 pm, Wednesday 28 October 2026Each household's email counts separately. A petition counts as one.

You may feel a phone tower is not worth writing about. This one is 35 metres tall, on ground well above our homes, between the Calderwood Valley and Cascadia estates, and the plans on exhibition are marked draft with the location "to be agreed". A two-minute email is the only thing Council counts.

To be clear about what this is and is not. Nobody here is against mobile coverage, and nobody is trying to stop anyone's phone working. The ask is that Council make the applicant do the job properly: fix the location, show the alternatives it considered, prove the height, and finish the reports, before anything is approved. If that ends with a shorter pole in a better spot, that is a good outcome for everyone.

What is proposed

Application
DA 0732/2026, Waveconn Operations Pty Ltd
Where
145 Bushranger Parade (Lot 1 DP 1262260), the bushland lot beside Milford Way and Oak Farm Road
What
35 m steel monopole with headframe, 12 m by 8 m fenced compound, built for two or three carriers
Height limit
The applicant's own request says the mapped limit for this land is 9 m
Ground level
About 15 to 30 m higher than the homes to the north and east, on public terrain data
Nearest homes
Cascadia lots across Milford Way, about 40 m on the applicant's own figure, now under construction; Sawyer Way and the west end of Oak Farm Road, about 175 m; Horseshoe Circuit, about 200 m; Coral Tree Crescent, about 240 m
Map of the proposed site with 250 metre rings, showing the Calderwood Valley estate to the east and the Cascadia estate to the west
The proposed site with 250 m rings. Point A is higher ground on the same block that the applicant has not assessed.

How to object in three steps

  1. Type your address and roughly how far you are from the site below. The email updates itself.
  2. Add one sentence of your own if you can: what you would see from your home or street. Then copy the email.
  3. Paste it into a new email to the address below, with the subject line shown, and send it before 4.30 pm on Wednesday 28 October.
Tocouncil@shellharbour.nsw.gov.au
CcNicole.Doughty@shellharbour.nsw.gov.au
SubjectSubmission objecting to DA0732/2026 - Telecommunication Facility - 145 Bushranger Parade, Calderwood

Your email

The "open in my email app" button does not work in every browser. If nothing happens, use Copy and paste into a new email. Change the order or wording if you like, but keep the DA number in the subject line. Council requires your name and address; anonymous emails carry no weight. Submissions can be viewed as part of the DA file.

Which streets are most affected

The applicant's own visual report gives its highest ratings to these streets. If you live on one, your email counts most.

Read the application yourself

The plans, the Statement of Environmental Effects and the EME report are on Council's development proposals page. Council's switchboard is (02) 4221 6111; ask for the planning department. Any written submission must say whether you have made a reportable political donation or gift to a councillor or Council employee in the past two years. The template includes that line.

Prepared by local residents, October 2026. This page is not from Council or the applicant.