Post by corsair67 on Dec 1, 2006 10:28:33 GMT 12
Sounds like a familiar story: people buy houses under established flight paths - then whinge about the noise! 
Airport in a tizz over Tralee
Steve Creedy, Aviation writer
December 01, 2006.
NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor will hold talks with the management of Canberra International Airport over fears a proposed housing development will cause delays, extra costs and restrictions for air travellers to the nation's capital.
The airport launched an advertising blitz on Thursday over a proposed housing development at nearby Tralee, in NSW, which is under its arrival and departure flight paths.
The Queanbeyan City Council has an application before Mr Sartor to rezone the land.
But Canberra International Airport managing director Stephen Byron believes building thousands of homes directly under the flight paths would inevitably lead to a campaign by residents to have them shifted.
"And that means noise for Queanbeyan and Canberra because there is nowhere else for the aircraft to go," Mr Byron said.
The airport on Wednesday launched a broad media campaign to raise awareness of the effect of aircraft noise on the new community.
It is attempting to convince residents to voice their concerns to Queanbeyan Mayor Frank Pangallo and the state Labor member for Monaro, Steve Whan, who faces an election in March.
Mr Bryron said the owners of Canberra airport had worked hard to create flight paths that protected 99.5 per cent of Queanbeyan and Canberra from aircraft noise.
"We are now not prepared to sit idly by and watch that trashed by a self-interested developer, a short-sighted and imprudent council and a local Member of Parliament who should know better," he said.
The airport released a letter from Airservices Australia to the Queanbeyan council warning that a residential development at Tralee could produce a community reaction that would have far-reaching implications for the region.
"These could include economic impacts from possible operational restrictions at the airport (such as a curfew for Canberra Airport, which has previously been suggested at community consultative meetings) or a need to redesign airspace usage to 'share the noise' across areas not currently overflown," the letter said. Mr Sartor said the NSW Government had received two reports on future land use in the Queanbeyan area -- an independent review of land use over the next 15 years and a council strategy looking at the next 25 years.
"The Department of Planning is now working to reconcile the 15-year independent review panel report with council's 25-year draft strategy," he said.
The independent review recommended that the development of land under aircraft flight paths should be avoided where alternative greenfield residential development opportunities existed within the Queanbeyan local government area or the cross-border region.
But Mr Pangallo accused the airport of running a scare campaign that was "total nonsense".
He said the Tralee development complied with all Australian standards applying to residential development around airports.
He said the land was to one side of the instrument landing approach and while planes could fly over it, they would be at a height which did not create a problem in terms of aircraft noise.
"This business about rearranging the flight paths ... is another furphy because the approaches into and leaving the airport are governed among other things by mountains surrounding the airport," Mr Pangallo said.
Airport in a tizz over Tralee
Steve Creedy, Aviation writer
December 01, 2006.
NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor will hold talks with the management of Canberra International Airport over fears a proposed housing development will cause delays, extra costs and restrictions for air travellers to the nation's capital.
The airport launched an advertising blitz on Thursday over a proposed housing development at nearby Tralee, in NSW, which is under its arrival and departure flight paths.
The Queanbeyan City Council has an application before Mr Sartor to rezone the land.
But Canberra International Airport managing director Stephen Byron believes building thousands of homes directly under the flight paths would inevitably lead to a campaign by residents to have them shifted.
"And that means noise for Queanbeyan and Canberra because there is nowhere else for the aircraft to go," Mr Byron said.
The airport on Wednesday launched a broad media campaign to raise awareness of the effect of aircraft noise on the new community.
It is attempting to convince residents to voice their concerns to Queanbeyan Mayor Frank Pangallo and the state Labor member for Monaro, Steve Whan, who faces an election in March.
Mr Bryron said the owners of Canberra airport had worked hard to create flight paths that protected 99.5 per cent of Queanbeyan and Canberra from aircraft noise.
"We are now not prepared to sit idly by and watch that trashed by a self-interested developer, a short-sighted and imprudent council and a local Member of Parliament who should know better," he said.
The airport released a letter from Airservices Australia to the Queanbeyan council warning that a residential development at Tralee could produce a community reaction that would have far-reaching implications for the region.
"These could include economic impacts from possible operational restrictions at the airport (such as a curfew for Canberra Airport, which has previously been suggested at community consultative meetings) or a need to redesign airspace usage to 'share the noise' across areas not currently overflown," the letter said. Mr Sartor said the NSW Government had received two reports on future land use in the Queanbeyan area -- an independent review of land use over the next 15 years and a council strategy looking at the next 25 years.
"The Department of Planning is now working to reconcile the 15-year independent review panel report with council's 25-year draft strategy," he said.
The independent review recommended that the development of land under aircraft flight paths should be avoided where alternative greenfield residential development opportunities existed within the Queanbeyan local government area or the cross-border region.
But Mr Pangallo accused the airport of running a scare campaign that was "total nonsense".
He said the Tralee development complied with all Australian standards applying to residential development around airports.
He said the land was to one side of the instrument landing approach and while planes could fly over it, they would be at a height which did not create a problem in terms of aircraft noise.
"This business about rearranging the flight paths ... is another furphy because the approaches into and leaving the airport are governed among other things by mountains surrounding the airport," Mr Pangallo said.
