Authority to record aircraft noise
AN aviation authority is getting a better picture of aircraft noise from the southern end of the Gold Coast Airport.
Airservices Australia has sought permission from Tweed Shire Council to install a temporary noise monitoring site on Parkes Dr, Tweed Heads.
Parkes Dr is less than a kilometre from the southern end of the Gold Coast Airport runway.
According to documents lodged with the council last month, Airservices wanted to use the site for three years with the option of a further three years.
Airservices had noise monitoring units at Kennedy Dr, Banora Point and Tugun to measure aircraft noise around the Golf Coast Airport.
The authority said it turned off the Kennedy Dr unit in 2009 because of work done to a nearby sewerage treatment plant.
Another unit was not installed at the time, instead the unit at Banora Point was used to measure noise at the southern end of the airport.
Aircraft noise mitigation campaigner and Tweed Heads West resident Ben Cullen said the Banora Point unit was too far from the airport and a second unit was needed at the southern end of the airport.
