It would seem that conveniently ‘Under the cover of Covid’ the planning is well underway for ‘A Nine (9) Million Sydney’ …
– the $8Bn WSA line, the final stage of the $27Bn Sydney Metro network; additional 23 Km of railway approved
-almost 50 stations more than 100 Kms of track to carry 40,000 commuters per hour
-Tallawong to Chatswood line is already operational
-Sydney Metro West, a State Significant infrastructureproject to service Westmead, Greater Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park, The Bays Precinct and the Sydney CBD
.and North Strathfield, Burwood North, Five Dock
-expected to handle 10 million passengers a year; and 82 million travellers by the 2060s
-to service Bradfield, planned 3rd city of Sydney; site north of Bringelly
MEDICH FAMILY POCKETS $499,950M FROM BADGERY’S CREEK BONANZA
-Medich Family’s 344-hectare land parcel at Badgerys Creek transacted for $499,950 million. Medich brothers purchased the Badgerys Creek site from the CSIRO for $3.5 million in 1996.
-2017 the sale of the Badgery’s Creek land to BOYUAN Holdings Limited (BHL) contingent on FIRB approval; deal did not go ahead
-THE BUYER entity named ‘Roberts Jones Bringelly’ whose directors include CHENG JIA PAN and BO GONG. THE BUYER also purchased 73 hectares of MEDICH land in Bringelly for $77 million
– Roberts Jones Bringelly has appointed BHL as the development agents for the project
-the Elizabeth Drive site to become a major employment, logistics and mixed-use precinct servicing the Airport and greater Aerotropolis
… the new city, surrounding the under-construction Nancy-Bird Walton Airport, will include commercial, agricultural, industrial and residential development and is targeting tech-centric aerospace and defence companies as well as advanced manufacturers and agribusinesses.
The site has been divided into ten precincts, with three key precincts—the Aerotropolis Core, Northern Gateway and South Creek—identified by the government as offering the greatest growth potential.
IN NUMBERS …
• 11,200 hectares underpinned by a 20-year agreement • Six initial precincts to be developed during the coming years • Four additional precincts to be rezoned • 12.2 million visitors expected annually • 200,000 new jobs projected • Predicted to become Australia’s third-largest economy by 2036
The People of the Plains and the Blue Mountains have been opposing the Badgery’s Creek Airport for decades … but there have been far too many assaults upon them since 2011/12 … not only this airport but OVERDEVELOPMENT …
AND Toll Roads, the Outer Sydney Orbital corridor, longwall mining, trains full-up with the constancy of ever more migrants and vibrants, the proposal for the Western Sydney incinerator to burn toxic waste products to generate electricity, and the raising of the Warragamba Dam wall for more development on the plains!
WHAT this airport at Badgery’s Creek will mean … high-rise thermal mass slums for China’s Belt and Road property money laundering SLUM CITIES … a Climate and Environment Disaster in the making …
‘Turned a lush green by recent rains, the rolling countryside at Badgerys Creek in Sydney’s outer west is about to be transformed again – this time permanently.
With the start of major earthworks on Wednesday, paddocks and hills dotted with trees and creeks will be flattened over the next two years to allow for construction of the $5.3 billion Western Sydney Airport, the first major capital city airport to be built in Australia in decades.
Deputy Prime Minster Michael McCormack at the airport site on Wednesday.CREDIT:KATE GERAGHTY
In a sign of the scale of the project, more than 200 scrapers, excavators, graders and trucks will shift 25 million cubic metres of earth – enough to fill 10,000 Olympic pools – to allow for the airport terminal, runway, roads and rail link to be built.
“We need to flatten what is a very hilly site – the difference between the highest and lowest points is equivalent to a 12-storey building – so we definitely have our work cut out for us,” the airport’s infrastructure executive, Jim Tragotsalos, said.
The state and federal governments have an ambitious timeframe to build a metro rail line from the airport to St Marys, where it will connect to the T1 Western Line. They have vowed to open the line – estimated to cost $8 billion – at the same time as the curfew-free airport in 2026.
Local residents have demanded that the flight paths from the new Western Sydney airport be revealed.
The NSW Minister for Western Sydney, Stuart Ayres, said both the state and federal governments were sticking to their commitment for trains to be running to the airport when it opens.
“We’ve always said from day one, this isn’t just about building an airport in a paddock. It’s about making sure that we connect that airport properly to residents across western Sydney,” he said.
The head of Sydney’s metro rail agency said late last year that it faced a “really tight timeframe”to work through planning processes and then construct the rail line in time.
Delays, contract disputes and cost blowouts have been plaguing major infrastructure projects in Sydney and Melbourne.
But Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said the government was working to ensure the airport, about 50 kilometres west of Sydney’s CBD, was “built on budget, on time”.
“We’re looking forward to 2026 when we can open this airport in December of that year,” he said. “This is going to be … the gateway for western Sydney to the world.”
Giant scapers start the major earthworks on the airport site at Badgerys Creek.CREDIT:KATE GERAGHTY
He declined to put a timeframe on when flight paths will be released to the public.
The contract for construction of the terminal is due to be awarded by May 2021. It is expected to be completed by 2025, the same time as the runway is finished, allowing for about a year to bed down operations before the first passengers pass through.
Residents near the 1780-hectare site are already witnessing major changes from $3.6 billion in road upgrades, including to the Northern and Bringelly roads. Construction of the 16-kilometre M12, which will connect to the airport, is due to start in 2022.
‘ …. In new housing estates where you have small blocks almost completely covered by houses with black roofs, it means there is simply no space to grow a meaningful canopy. …
‘The process of developing Western Sydney contributes massively to urban heat. And we know how much growth is planned in this area, particularly with the new Western Sydney Airport and associated Aerotropolis precinct.‘
Especially with the Greenfields Housing Code and lots as tiny as 200M2 X 6M wide! It’s about greed, isn’t it? As with the high-rise storey upon storey the developer makes a motza! AND having an enormous buyer market to draw from overseas … particularly from China with its 1.4 Billion people.
RELATED ARTICLE that reveals how the property sector draws on ‘expert opinion’ to boost their coffers through overdevelopment …
Early results from a study of urban heat effects in Penrith in Western Sydney confirm that development contributes to the phenomenon, researchers say.
The 120 sensors were installed before summer in 2019 by researchers from Western Sydney University. The sensors were clustered at ten locations and recorded temperatures every ten minutes, with more than 46,000 data points collected over a five-week period that began on 12 December 2019.
On 4 January the top recorded temperature in Penrith was 48.9 degrees. Doctor Sebastian Phautsch from WSU said that on that day, temperatures varied across the city.
“Tench Reserve was a relatively cooler 45.2 degrees on that record breaking day, while St Marys reached 48.8 degrees. The difference between the two places is, one is dominated by green and blue infrastructure, while the other has a high proportion of hard urban surfaces,” he said.
*“Without trees, summer heat becomes unbearable. In new housing estates where you have small blocks almost completely covered by houses with black roofs, it means there is simply no space to grow a meaningful canopy.”
Penrith mayor Ross Fowler said the data would be used to inform and justify the city’s strategy for addressing urban heat through planning and design.
“We know anecdotally there can be vast temperature differences across our region,” he said, “But until now, we’ve lacked evidence to support and correlate this. Collecting heat data this summer will help scientifically inform decision making for our city and tackle rising urban heat. Importantly it also allows Council to advocate the business case to industry, the community and government, for doing things differently.”
Pfautsch said that the high levels of development in Western Sydney were a major contributor to higher temperatures in the region, and that the massive amount of development planned for the area had the potential to worsen the problem.
“The process of developing Western Sydney contributes massively to urban heat,” he said. “And we know how much growth is planned in this area, particularly with the new Western Sydney Airport and associated Aerotropolis precinct.”
“Unless we execute this with considerations for urban heat at the very forefront of our planning, 50-degree-plus summers will unfortunately become Western Sydney’s reality. The heat difference already measured on 4 January, between Tench Reserve and St Mary’s, is just a precursor of what lies ahead for Penrith.”
SADLY it is the wider community of Western Sydney that will be losing their amenity with not only ongoing fly in and buy ‘Real Estate Tourism’ but also ‘Medical Tourism’ for more air traffic and consequently even more overdevelopment …
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-UNESCO World Heritage Listing for the Blue Mountains Area is under threat
Last year there was a proposal by ASX-listed property group BoyuanLimited to enter into a consortium with Dr Teo, the University of Western Sydney, and logistics firm LOGOS to build a mini city known as the “Northern Gateway development” for 22,000 homes!
The Plan did not get off the ground …
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Chinese Developer’s billion-dollar proposal would move Sydney Motorway
6 October 2018
DESPITE the purchase by Boyuan back in 2016 of the development site near the proposed airport for Badgery’s Creek being revealed in the Sydney Morning Herald on 23 December 2016 … yet the identity of the proposal was treated as “commercial in confidence” by the Greater Sydney Commission … and as recently as February 2018!
Northern Gateway City plans for Western Sydney Aerotropolis released
2 November 2018
A CONSORTIUM of international and local bodies has outlined its vision for the future Northern Gateway City at Badgerys Creek — but first it is seeking the realignment of the proposed M12 motorway to make it happen.
Controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has raised eyebrows not only with the announcement of his plan for a billion-dollar medical-based development in the Blacktown CBD, but with revelations one of his business partners recently fought off multiple bankruptcy actions.
While no source of funding has been detailed, Dr Teo’s company the BBSI Group announced the proposed development of the Blacktown Brain and Spinal Institute, which will include a private hospital “designed by doctors for their patients” and a luxurious hotel for medical-tourism purposes, along with residential, retail and commercial spaces.
Carlo LoGiudice (left) with neurosurgeon Charlie Teo.
One of Dr Teo’s partners in the venture is businessman Carlo LoGiudice who last year came up with financing at the last moment to ward off three attempts to bankrupt him.
Mr LoGiudice avoided the legal strictures of bankruptcy by coming up with the money to settle debts relating to unpaid strata levies, marina fees as well as fees owed to his former lawyer.
Carlo LoGiudice (left) with Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto.
Despite the debt recovery action that was taken against him last year, Mr LoGiudice was not made a bankrupt and so he remains lawfully able to enter agreements of this kind.
Like Dr Teo, Mr LoGiudice appears to have a close relationship with Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto with photos of Mr Gatto and Mr LoGiudice featuring on the latter’s Facebook page.
On Friday, a matter involving a failed company of Mr LoGiudice was mentioned in the Federal Court. The company Led4Life collapsed in 2016 with debts of more than $6 million, half of which was owed to the tax office.
The Herald has previously revealed that the neurosurgeon’s links to Mr Gatto were cited as a major reason for the doctor’s dramatic split from the charity he founded, Cure Brain Cancer Foundation.
Charlie Teo (left) with Mick Gatto.CREDIT:TAMARA DEAN
When a number of the prominent patrons of the charity expressed concern about the reputational risk of the charity’s association with Mr Gatto, who attended some of the fundraising events, Dr Teo was furious.
Tensions came to a boil in mid-2017 when Dr Teo quit the charity, complaining about the amount spent on administration. He later established the Charlie Teo Foundation.
When the Herald sent questions to Dr Teo’s office for a story in September, an associate of Mr Gatto contacted the paper expressing concerns on Dr Teo’s behalf. The associate had specific knowledge of certain questions Dr Teo had been sent.
Dr Teo denied that either he or his office had contacted Mr Gatto. “This is absolutely false,” Dr Teo said via his lawyers.
The current chair of the Charlie Teo Foundation is Valentina Stojanavsko, who is also one of Mr LoGiudice’s current business partners and is the principal of Black Book Legal.
Mr LoGiudice was a former project manager with Australian Water Holdings, a company at the centre of a corruption inquiry into the secret shareholding in the company by the family of corrupt former minister Eddie Obeid, who was lobbying to acquire a lucrative water deal with the state government.
Mr LoGiudice featured several times in the diaries of Mr Obeid which were tendered at a previous corruption inquiry.
Blacktown mayor Tony Bleasdale said the council had agreed in principal to sell the current council-owned administrative centre site to BBSI. A council source said that the price was yet to be agreed upon but it would be at market value.
The source also said the council was aware that Dr Teo had been speaking to a number of councils about his “vision” and that current arrangement came after the mayor and Dr Teo got chatting at a function. Apart from the potential sale of council land, the council does not intend to play any other role in the development.
*Last year there was a proposal by ASX-listed property group BoyuanLimited to enter into a consortium with Dr Teo, the University of Western Sydney, and logistics firm LOGOS to build a mini city known as the “Northern Gateway development” on a 344-hectare block of land previously owned by convicted murderer Ron Medich. That plan did not get off the ground.
The current proposal is the brain-child of a company called BBSI, whose sole director is Lebnan “Leny” Manassa, a developer and excavator.
Dr Teo also founded Teo Healthcare Group in July last year. It quickly changed its name to TLC Wellbeing with Mr Manassa as the sole director. The shareholders are Mr Alexandrou beneficially owning 60 per cent of the company with Teo Nominees holding the rest.
The company, which was set up in August 2018, has two shareholders. Dr Teo’s private company has 40 per cent of the shares with Mr Manassa’s accountant Anthony Alexandrou holding the rest of the company beneficially on someone else’s behalf.
The aerotropolis will be divided into 10 precincts, with three initial precincts—the Aerotropolis Core, Northern Gateway and South Creek—identified by the government as offering the greatest growth potential.
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Western Sydney Aerotropolis Land Rezoning Plans Revealed
Six precincts of land around the 11,200-hectare Western Sydney Aerotropolis will be rezoned by the middle of next year, paving the way for the delivery of new investment and infrastructure in the region.
The aerotropolis will be divided into 10 precincts, with three initial precincts—the Aerotropolis Core, Northern Gateway and South Creek—identified by the government as offering the greatest growth potential.
The first precinct, the 1,055-hectare Aerotropolis Core, is set to deliver 60,000 jobs and 8,000 homes when fully-developed, while the 1,120-hectare Northern Gateway will deliver 22,500-plus jobs and 3,400 homes.
The 1,950-hectare South Creek precinct will primarily deliver public space, restaurants and cafes and community facilities, with limited residential development due to aircraft noise and flooding.
Landowners and developers will be able to apply to accelerate the rezoning of a precinct if the proposal meets the strategic planning requirements set out by the Western City District Plan.
▲ Artist impressions of a tech hub at the Aerotropolis.
Developer lobby group Urban Taskforce voiced concern that property values had already been driven up by government announcements.
“If the NSW government adds additional state infrastructure charges on top of already-inflated land prices, they risk sterilising the land by rendering development unfeasible,” Urban Taskforce chief executive Tom Forrest said.
More details on state infrastructure charges or value-capture contributions are expected by released by next year.
“The sooner we progress these plans, the sooner the development industry can commence the formation and growth of the aerotropolis on the ground,” Forrest said.
The aerotropolis will function as a 24-hour economic hub at the centre of the Western Parkland City—supported by 200,000 new jobs in “resilient” industries like agribusiness, defence and aerospace, health and education. The region is projected to grow by more than 300,000 people by 2036.
▲ The aerotropolis will be divided into 10 precincts, with three initial precincts, including the Aerotropolis Core, identified as offering the greatest growth potential.
The federal and state governments have committed $3.6 billion to road infrastructure in the region as well as the equal funding of the north-south rail link from St Marys to the aerotropolis core precinct at the Western Sydney Airport.
The exact route and stations of the north-south metro rail line will be confirmed next year and is scheduled to open at the same time as the airport in 2026.
NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes said that the plans provide an opportunity for the community to take part in the planning process.
“The aerotropolis will be Sydney’s newest economic hub and will be a 30-minute city, where people live close to jobs, schools, health services and open space,” Stokes said.
A new planning authority will work alongside the recently-established Sydney Metro Authority to share the progressive development and delivery of the aerotropolis precincts.
First images of the Western Sydney Airport were released in October, with work on the terminal scheduled to start in 2022. Major earthworks on Sydney’s second airport has been under way for more than a year.
The draft planning package is on exhibition until 28 February 2020.
WAS this about the Election? It was declared a priority when Gladis became Premier … but it seems the overseas market is so lucrative that the growing pains are now leading to more OVERDEVELOPMENT in Sydney’s South West …
IT was only last week following a community outcry that three devilopers withdrew their developments for 18,000 HOMES in Appin!
BUT for how long?
… TODAY in Limited News we read Sydney’s South West is to be STOKED to feed into Beijing through the Western Sydney Aerotropolis … is that where the tens of thousands of First Home Buyers come from, Mr Perrottet?
WITH thousands flying in to buy every week and laundering money in the Casinos for our Real Estate … the need for ‘affordable housing’ appears to have been eliminated …
AND development of two more Casinos is underway ….
READ MORE … From the Daily Telegraph 30 November 2019
SEARCH OUR WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE … about money laundering, Real Estate Sector exempt from AML Laws, Proxy buyers, Visa Manipulation … Permanent Resident Visa following purchase of Real Estate and some get a PR Visa before coming to Australia!
‘About 40 properties will be fully or partially acquired and 74 hectares of native vegetation bulldozed for construction of a $1.8 billion motorway to the new Western Sydney Airport.‘
That’s the humdinger … the stand-out example of utter contempt for SydneySiders, isn’t it? To get out of the way for ‘progress’ … for ‘Vibrants’ …
PERHAPS even worse for some with the M12 cutting across their properties?
Just like the WestCONnex and NorthCONnex victims either robbed of the Market Value of their properties or strangled by the Motorway at their doorstep!
TO create a thermal mass wasteland … it’s all about those ‘foreign buyers’ particularly from China … their interests and allowing them to park their ‘black money’ in more Sydney slums …
As SydneySiders lose wildlife corridors and urban fringe foodbowl … our food security!
SCROLL down this article to find out more about the Planning Minister’s powers … this was introduced in the term of former Planning Minister Roberts:
Properties to be acquired for $1.8b motorway to new Sydney airport
By Matt O’Sullivan
October 16, 2019
About 40 properties will be fully or partially acquired and 74 hectares of native vegetation bulldozed for construction of a $1.8 billion motorway to the new Western Sydney Airport.
Construction of the 16-kilometre M12 motorway is due to start in 2022 and be completed by 2025, about a year before the $5 billion airport at Badgerys Creek is scheduled to open.
The estimated cost of the project has already risen by more than $400 million to $1.8 billion due to an increase in land values around the site of the airport.
The M12 motorway will offer motorists a direct link to the new airport at Badgerys Creek.Photo: Peter Rae
The federal government included an extra $405 million for the motorway in the Budget in April, taking its funding to $1.45 billion. The remaining $350 million for the M12 will come from the state government.
The Herald revealed in January that the state’s transport agency had been investigating options to either reduce the scope of the project or secure extra funding after putting the cost at $1.38 billion – $130 million above what had then been committed by the two governments.
*The state government released an environmental report for the M12 on Wednesday that showed 36 properties will be partially acquired, and five fully, for the motorway. Most of the properties are farms or orchards. Temporary leases of land will also be needed during construction.
New M12 motorway for Western Sydney Airport
Source: RMS
*The report says about 74 hectares of native vegetation is expected to be dug up for the motorway, including about 1.85 hectares of an existing bio-banking site within Western Sydney Parklands. The state’s bio-banking scheme is intended to offset the loss of biodiversity, including threatened species.
In all, the project is set to impact about 90 hectares of land within the 5280-hectare Western Sydney Parklands, including bush land, walking tracks and the Wylde mountain bike trail.
The state’s roads agency is working with the trust overseeing the parklands on a replacement mountain bike trail.
Penrith City Council mayor Ross Fowler said the route chosen would probably have the least impact of those considered for the M12 motorway over the past few years.
“It was always going to have an impact somewhere and hopefully this is the one that has the least impact on the population,” he said. “It is a much needed piece of infrastructure.”
The new motorway, which will be two lanes in either direction and not be tolled, will link the M7 at Cecil Hills to the Northern Road at Luddenham and offer motorists direct access to the airport.
While traffic on roads in the wider area will generally be improved as a result of the project, the report said the motorway may lead to an increase in travel times for motorists on the M7 motorway in the morning peak, mostly due to extra vehicles merging from the M12 at an interchange.
“This merging would generate localised delays, particularly in the northbound direction,” it said.
Travel times on the Northern Road from Elizabeth Drive, northbound to the M4 motorway, will also increase due to motorists driving from Western Sydney Airport using the M12 and the Northern Road to travel north in the evenings.
Western Sydney’s population is forecast to rise from two million today to three million by 2036 – or an average of 50,000 extra residents each year – which will pile pressure on roads such as the M12 and other transport in the area.
NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes said the state was working with the the federal government to ensure that road and transport infrastructure was in place to better connect the region to the rest of Sydney before the first plane takes off at the new airport.
One flight per minute 24/7 and over World Heritage areas.
WHO benefits? Cough … cough … Deve-lopers, Realtors and the HNW and the Middle Class now more than 420 MILLION People from our Big Neighbour to the North
The consequences … higher density and the heat island effect. Noise and air pollution from landing aircraft … to challenge our Australian Society!
Property analyst Louis Christopher told Daily Mail Australia you only had to look at differing property prices around Sydney’s existing airport to get an idea about how flight paths could impact on house prices.
THERE’S More! And it looks like you need to do somethin’ …. question the pollies about Visa Manipulation … with the lure of buying our Real Estate to gain a ‘Permanent Resident Visa’ ... every day the diaspora is expanding across Sydney and Melbourne … and the following figures explain why …
By 2012 the number representing China’s Middle Class had climbed to 31 percent, constituting over 420 million people. China’s growing middle class presents an array of new economic opportunities to be exploited here in Australia, but also poses significant POLITICAL and DEMOGRAPHIC challenges for us!
This from the AFR … China’s Middle Class is forecast to increase to 600 MILLION in the next five years … Bain and Company have predicted that the Chinese Middle Class to include an estimated 65% of households! Having been hit by rising house prices in China, and a tumbling stock exchange … with our housing less expensive …
A new report indicates that the number of high-net worth individuals in China is fast approaching one and a half million.
The “China Private Banking 2019” Report 2019 recently released by China Construction Bank in conjunction with Boston Consulting indicates that as of the end of 2018 China’s personal investible financial assets had reached 147 trillion yuan in total.
The number of high-net worth individuals in China – defined as those with personal investible financial assets of 6 million yuan or more, was 1.67 million as of the end of last year.
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EXCLUSIVE: Deafening sound, flights running all night and a property price plunge of more than 10 per cent: The suburbs that could be hit when western Sydney’s new airport opens
Western Sydney’s newairport (digital rendering pictured) will cause residents to suffer under deafening flight paths and lead to uncertainty in the property market, experts have warned Western Sydney’s new airport will cause residents to suffer under deafening flight paths and lead to uncertainty in the property market, experts have warned.
Construction on the $5.6billion Western Sydney International Airport at Badgerys Creek began a year ago – with the 24-hour airport due to open in 2026.
While the proposed flight paths will not be released for another two years, indicative routes show planes will descend to just 1,500m as they fly over the city’s outer western suburbs before landing.
That means suburbs like Blaxland, Glenbrook and Emu Plains could face deafening roars from landing aircraft.
The Federal Government’s Environmental Impact Statement estimates that by 2063 a flight will depart daily from the airport, which is equal to about a flight a minute.
Property analyst Louis Christopher told Daily Mail Australia you only had to look at differing property prices around Sydney’s existing airport to get an idea about how flight paths could impact on house prices.
‘In inner-west suburbs like Leichardt that are right under the flight paths properties do trade at a discount,’ the founder of SQM Research said.
‘They do change in value and it can be more than 10 per cent.’
‘I can’t imagine there could be any reason for that difference other than planes flying over.’
Core Logic data shows a more than seven per cent difference in median house prices between Mascot – directly adjacent to the airport – and neighbouring Eastlakes.
Local realtors in the Badgerys Creek area too predict there could be a negative impact on prices.
‘Over time I think prices will recover like with the area around Sydney Airport but it could be difficult to begin with,’ estate agent Hunter Maxwell of LJ Hooker Bringelly told Daily Mail Australia.
‘You’ve got half a demographic who will stay for the jobs and having an airport next door, but half as well who don’t want the noise.’
The approval of a third runway at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport in 2012 led to LJ Hooker Tullamarine’s managing director Steve Hoblos predicting a 10 per cent drop in property prices.
*Acoustic expert Barry Murray has also warned those living within 10km of the airport could expect a routinely disturbed sleep.
*In the Blue Mountains town of Blaxland, which is located directly underneath the ‘merge point’ of the different flight paths, the noise is expected to reach 55 decibels almost 100 times a day.
The average conversation volume is around 60 decibels, and Mr Murray said while the sound of a plane flying overhead may not wake residents up, it would disturb their sleep.
‘They may not be aware of the noise, but it affects the level of sleep and therefore the rest they get from that sleep,’ he told ABC News.
Blue Mountains mayor Mark Greenhill told Daily Mail Australia the delay to the flight path announcement was becoming a real concern.
‘We gave our responses and opposition to the environmental impact statement in 2015, but things have changed again and we just don’t know what’s happening,’ he said.
A spokesman for the Deparment of Infrastructure, Transport and Cities told Daily Mail Australia the process of flight path design for the airport was still ongoing.
‘The Government has always been clear there will be a comprehensive process to develop and formalise the flight paths which will include formal community consultation,’ the spokesman said.
He had earlier described the delay to releasing details of the flight paths as ‘insulting and disrespectful.’
Prime Minister Scott Morrison this month heralded a new visitor centre at the airport as a drawcard for locals and tourists with prime views of the site’s construction.
‘Locals and tourists will be able to take in Western Sydney International Airport years before a plane even takes off,’ he said in a statement.
‘This centre will provide an opportunity for the people of Western Sydney to see first-hand the transformation underway in the region, driven by the airport’s development.’
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