Hi Mal,

I have a pre-emptive suggestion.

Often people who do this sort of thing automatically come back with "Very
sorry, but we threw the old brackets away, and it's impractical to make new
ones. So sorry."

And often they get away with it because regulators cannot be too
unreasonable.

So, if anyone here knows of local manufacturers who can make the
components, perhaps they could pass names onto Mal to "helpfully" pass on
that info to the regulator.

The point being that usually whoever gets to the regulator first usually
wins.

Even if you just write back, ostensibly, to thank the regulator, you could
add something like: "Fortunately in this case, it is really cheap and
practical to restore the original poles, and there are plenty of small
Victorian firms who could fabricate the components".

Mark Skinner (having dealt with a few regulators in his time).

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, 5:35 pm Mal Rowe, mal.rowe@...> wrote:

> On 23/06/2020 17:41, timmy1041 wrote:

> > Mal do you remember way back to 1992 when Mt Alexander rd

> > was re done before the B Class started there was the same argument

> > about the ornate poles and clearances for pantos and there was also

> > uproar around the pruning and the location of certain palm trees as

> > well.Do you have any pics from then,

>

> No - I was in remission from tram obsession at that time.

>

> I do have a much earlier pic at: https://tdu.to/i/10101

>

> Mal Rowe - now in relapse

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