Hi all,
I thought I would give this enough time to play out and at this point I think it's worth a mention.
Being a newb to the game and wanting to play by the rules, I followed due process in regards to my desire to swing over a few crown land lots. I firstly emailed NSW Crown Lands with my wish list and got a response within about two days. The response was that the request for temporary permits was forwarded on to the regional office responsible for my area of interest. In this case, the Goulbern office. Then about two weeks later I received a request from that office for screen shots from Sixmaps highlighting the intended fossicking areas within the lots. A bit weird I thought as I had already provided dp, lot numbers and descriptions of locations and I had no idea where within the lots I would be able to practice detecting. Anyway I sent in the screenshots of lots within wider areas and ignored specifying any within lot intent as I just didn't know at this point. I waited and waited. After four weeks I sent them an enquiry as to the status of my request. I got a reply the next day saying my application had now been delegated to a particular staff member. That person was also ccd by Goulbern manager and asked to make contact with me. I waited a week and directly emailed the staff member. They replied the next day saying, yes they had my application for temporary permits and they would process it in due course but to be aware that it would not happen in the foreseeable future. My application with screen shots went in on September 4 and this is now late November.
Obviously temporary fossicking permits are not a priority (fair enough) and perhaps staffing shortages and or a big workload would be contributing but it does seem a little discouraging. Has anybody had recent similar experiences or am I just having a series of unfortunate events?
I thought I would give this enough time to play out and at this point I think it's worth a mention.
Being a newb to the game and wanting to play by the rules, I followed due process in regards to my desire to swing over a few crown land lots. I firstly emailed NSW Crown Lands with my wish list and got a response within about two days. The response was that the request for temporary permits was forwarded on to the regional office responsible for my area of interest. In this case, the Goulbern office. Then about two weeks later I received a request from that office for screen shots from Sixmaps highlighting the intended fossicking areas within the lots. A bit weird I thought as I had already provided dp, lot numbers and descriptions of locations and I had no idea where within the lots I would be able to practice detecting. Anyway I sent in the screenshots of lots within wider areas and ignored specifying any within lot intent as I just didn't know at this point. I waited and waited. After four weeks I sent them an enquiry as to the status of my request. I got a reply the next day saying my application had now been delegated to a particular staff member. That person was also ccd by Goulbern manager and asked to make contact with me. I waited a week and directly emailed the staff member. They replied the next day saying, yes they had my application for temporary permits and they would process it in due course but to be aware that it would not happen in the foreseeable future. My application with screen shots went in on September 4 and this is now late November.
Obviously temporary fossicking permits are not a priority (fair enough) and perhaps staffing shortages and or a big workload would be contributing but it does seem a little discouraging. Has anybody had recent similar experiences or am I just having a series of unfortunate events?
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