Naval Station Towers Demolished

I guess now the people of Kaleen and Giralang can stop complaining about TV interferance!!! Ironically the actual antenna (which was stung in a T shape on the 3 masts) on these masts was taken down years ago, but people still complained.

No, Deakin Telephone Exchange is a decoy. Pizza Hut at Weston is where it all really happens.

Re: I rea din some conspiracy website that the site has an underground base and is connected to NASA and all sorts of weird stuff!

I thought that was meant to be in the basement of the Deakin telephone exchange…

Re: I wonder how much the new blocks of land will cost?
Well for an example, those infill blocks next to the high tension power lines (hello cancer cluster) called Majura Rise in North Watson were running at around $270K for 450sq m – that’s about $100K more for 100sq m less than at Wells Station just 4 minutes up the road.
Given this land is so close to Belconnen town centre, you could probably add an easy $50K a block.
Great town to be trying to get into the property market in this one…

Video of demolition from WIN News

ripping up the mats would do more harm than good
Cause building houses on it ain’t gonna do no harm.

I don’t think they can sell all the land for housing as there are massive wire mats under the earth around each tower. The towers were just the *visible* part of the antennae system. I believe an environmental assessment a few years ago concluded that ripping up the mats would do more harm than good. Happy to be corrected – I can’t source that assessment.

I really think that Australia doesn’t value it’s heritage enough. Things like these towers had such an impact on the local area, and played a very large part in navy communications for 4 decades, that it should have at least been considered for heritage listing. If the land around the area is contaminated, i wonder how long they will have to work to get it prepared for subdividing.

Danman, Simon will find someway of selling it! 🙂

VY Land can not sell yet – they still have PCB contaminated dirt on stie and I remember somethign else about asbestos cement buried on site – and on inspection a few years back – there are plenty of asbestos warnings up there.