National's changes to the Resource Management Act mean that from this month, telcos can build cellphone towers anywhere they damn well like, with no notification or consents required.
They can plonk a 16 to 20m tower on the berm right outside your house, as is happening in Torbay. And residents have absolutely no say in the process.
Spark sold all of its cell sites to Canadian company Connexa last year, and that outfit plans to install hundreds of additional sites over the next eight years. Wherever they want, with no hindrances whatsoever.
This is National and Act's brave, new, deregulated world in practice. A world where corporation have more rights than people.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_auckland/2222800/auckland-residents-unable-to-stop-telco-towers-being-built-near-their-properties
#CellTower #NZ
Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:
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