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sometimes it is easier to beg forgiveness than ask permissionFirst step.
Call the council to find out if the roads are gazetted that means the council is responsible for maintaining the road.
Go from there.
These days it getting harder to get info form my local council than to find large Nuggets!First step.
Call the council to find out if the roads are gazetted that means the council is responsible for maintaining the road.
Go from there.
that's like Tinnitus ! ring,ring,ringFirst step.
Call the council to find out if the roads are gazetted that means the council is responsible for maintaining the road.
Go from there.
i think you would find that in most shires the council carriageway boundary clearance is 20 meters / 10 each side from the crown of bitumen center of road even if the private property fence intrudes over that line.IMHO road verges, particularly wide ones >10 metres between bitumen/ gravel and any boundary fences should be fair game if you leave the ground as you found it. Just park in a safe, unobtrusive spot, like anyone on the roads who pulls up for a comfort stop would do. Who’s likely to be policing such activity anyway.... see post #4
Don't forget that in times of severe drought, country roadside areas are traditionally used as 'the long paddock' by graziers with no feed remaining on their property, who drive their flocks along them for weeks or months until rain comes again. Their overnight roadside campsites might turn up some interesting mementos while detecting.Thanks for all your responses, its great to get everyone's differing opinions. My thoughts were mainly detecting along country dirt roads ( not national Highways) that have been graded over the years and the soil is just pushed up on the road reserve, as well as, access through properties where there is a dedicated roads which has never been constructed, virtually virgin areas.
The email from NSW Crown Lands included in the following post, appears to rule out my above post:Don't forget that in times of severe drought, country roadside areas are traditionally used as 'the long paddock' by graziers with no feed remaining on their property, who drive their flocks along them for weeks or months until rain comes again. Their overnight roadside campsites might turn up some interesting mementos while detecting.
NSW Crown Lands:
Local Land Services have confirmed that fossicking is not permitted on travelling stock reserves.
A requirement of fossicking is filling in holes.That would make sense because of the holes left by fossickers and the potential for livestock to break a leg .
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