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Dargan Creek (Dams Cliff) Plan of Management 24-May-2012 At 1:26:55 PM SRC Access Officer

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Hi all

Not a bad meeting in Clarence last night. There were 20 or so people in total with 10 or so climbers. Apparently, of the 41 submissions received, 23 were from climbers.

It felt like a pretty good meeting to me. The Department of Lands representatives seemed to want to maintain access for climbers - there are just a lot of issues to juggle with private land, Railcorp land and Crown land being so intermingled. They have backed away from requiring approval to install bolts. They have backed away from prohibiting swimming.

The SRC (and others) will be approaching Railcorp in the near future to see if they can be persuaded to allow access through its easements, both to the Dams Cliff and Cosmic/Freezer (via Donaldson Road).

The Plan of Management will now be finalised (taking comments made at the meeting last night into consideration) and sent to the Minister for approval (who knows how long this will take).