A controversial shake-up of Sydney Airport’s flight paths has sparked fears it will worsen aircraft noise for tens of thousands of residents in the city’s inner and south-western suburbs and has led to demands for more detail about the plans.
The council “strongly objects” to the proposed alterations and is demanding a comprehensive assessment of the impacts on residents. It argues in a submission to the federal government that a reduced geographic dispersion of flights runs counter to Sydney Airport’s established noise-sharing arrangements.
Those suburbs, along with Riverwood, Padstow, Revesby Heights, and Picnic Point, could also experience an increased frequency of planes flying over ahead as they prepare to land at Sydney Airport, the council says.It argues the environmental assessment’s scope is “limited and ultimately flawed” because it is determined by documents that “are silent on facilitated changes to existing flight paths at Sydney Airport and Bankstown airports”.
“The flight paths are designed ultimately to protect Sydney Airport. This double standard equates to little more than discrimination against Western Sydney and surrounds,” it says in a submission to the federal government’s flight path assessment.
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