Airport noise

Airport noise

If planning for the future ever became a real priority for NSW and Federal Governments, Sydney airport must be moved outside the city. Sydney could gain an efficient airports system that would be able to handle all future traffic and enjoy proper living standards for all.

Sydney’s airport site at Botany could provide 900 hectares of prime bay side land for new housing, parkland, water sports and employment and the inner and sale proceeds could provide for three airports outside the Sydney basin connected by fast rail to north, south and west locations.

The noise curfew which is seven hours long and the movement cap at eighty movements per hour is now again under attack by authorities and was put there because people need uninterrupted sleep at night. The movement cap was introduced when there were so many planes flying over Sydney’s residential districtsl that people revolted and the Government decided to limit the impact of aircraft noise on our homes, hospitals, schools and public buildings.

The existing airport will be at maximum capacity in about another ten years and it is completely unclear what the Government of the day will do as it will be too late. As the Airport gets busier, the supporting road and rail infrastructure will become even more congested, outdated and the delays will be more frequent.

Should the airport remain in its present location the end result is pressure applied to end the curfew, cap and noise sharing arrangements to provide more capacity on Sydney Airport for future years.

To delay the inevitable any further with expensive knee jerk decisions will leave the problems for future generations. Sooner or later, Sydney airport must move outside Sydney.