LOCALS continue to look to the skies as the conversation continues to grow regarding noise pollution, air traffic and flight paths as the new Noise Action Plan was announced.
A pop-up town hall meeting was held in Redlands last week, as part of Airservices Australia opening that conversation and asking for consultation and feedback on these topics from residents.
However, a residents’ group has hit out in opposition of the plan, led by Henry Pike and Redlanders Against Diversions And Amenity Reduction (RADA).
Resident Karilyn Beiers told Redland City News that Airservices had released Phase 4 options at the end of May, with feedback on the plan extended from 23 June 2024 to 14 July.
“Airservices has it all mixed up,” she said. “This shows that they have not yet even thought about Options Assessment Report for Phase 3 but have now distributed Phase 4 Options.”
As the nation’s air traffic service provider, Airservices Australia has been working closely with the community and aviation industry to finalise a new national engagement approach for the development and implementation of flightpath changes.
It has received direct feedback from 13 community engagement drop-in sessions around Australia, and 10 webinars, with more than 560 people directly engaged with the program.
Airservices chief executive officer Jason Harfield said the feedback would help to continue work on setting the benchmark to measure future community engagement activities and to reach solutions desirable to all stakeholders.
Following city-wide community engagement, Airservices has designed flightpaths to be higher over the Redlands community to further reduce noises.
This will mean aircraft, where they cross the coastline, will operate above 11,000ft – as opposed to the current 8000-10,000ft operations.
The Greater Brisbane community is being urged to have a say on these proposed new flightpath options at the latest round of Noise Action Plan for Brisbane community engagement sessions (including online sessions) being held across Brisbane until June 18.
“We are dedicated to closely working with the community. We are listening to and proactively consulting with noise-impacted residents,” said Airservices Australia head of community engagement Donna Marshall.
