Plane Sense the residents group, from Broadmeadows, Khandallah, Ōhāriu Valley, Ngaio and Crofton Downs, are fundraising to support their challenge of the process and implementation of the flight paths in and out of Wellington Airport. The May 2025 High Court hearing has been postponed due to late affidavits and lack of information from Wellington Airport,ContinueContinue reading “Plane Sense”
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Consultation open for the Draft Airport Noise Management Plan 2022/23
Wellington International Airport Limited is currently consulting the community on our draft for consultation Airport Noise Management Plan (this is part of the Guardians of the Bays Wellington Airport designations Settlement Agreement). WIAL’s current operative noise management plan is on the http://www.wellingtonairport.co.nz/noise/air-noise website If you have any feedback email: airnoise@wellingtonairport.co.nz by 5pm on Friday 9thContinueContinue reading “Consultation open for the Draft Airport Noise Management Plan 2022/23”
Guardians Submission on the Proposed District Plan
The Guardians of the Bays has submitted on the Wellington City Proposed District Plan. Our submission focused on the Noise and the Airport Zone. Guardians Introduction to Submission Proposed District Plan Guardians Proposed District Plan Submission Table
RE-BLOG WELLINGTON SCOOP: 60 trucks an hour: sleep disturbance and health issues during runway construction
by Lindsay Shelton, October 11, 2016. Link here. A report from the Wellington City Council identifies a “worst case scenario” if only trucks are used to carry the rocks needed to build a longer runway at Wellington Airport. The report, prepared by the council for the airport’s resource consent application, says that 252 people sentContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG WELLINGTON SCOOP: 60 trucks an hour: sleep disturbance and health issues during runway construction”
RE-BLOG WELLINGTON SCOOP: Runway extension report: concerns on noise, environment, surfing, fishing
Link here. The Regional Council last week released a 165-page staff report analysing Wellington Airport’s application for permission to extend its runway. The report, on the airport’s resource consent application, confirms that of the 776 submissions received, 527 were against the runway extension, 227 were in support of it (either in full or in part),ContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG WELLINGTON SCOOP: Runway extension report: concerns on noise, environment, surfing, fishing”
NEWS: Extending the runway: one truck every minute, for ten hours every day
by Lindsay Shelton The brutal reality of constructing a longer runway at Wellington Airport is revealed in one of the 27 reports that were published this week. It provides startling details of the number of trucks-with-trailers that will be needed to carry rocks through the city for the reclamation – one every minute, for tenContinueContinue reading “NEWS: Extending the runway: one truck every minute, for ten hours every day”
The Dominion Post: Rongotai homes disappearing
A home is moved from Bridge St, Miramar, as the airport removes properties in its noise zone. Houses in Bridge St are starting to disappear as Wellington Airport forges ahead with plans to remove 44 homes near its runway. One house had already been removed from the area in Rongotai and another was ”jacked up”ContinueContinue reading “The Dominion Post: Rongotai homes disappearing”
The Dominion Post: Airport plans may create ‘wasteland’
FORCED TO SELL: Bridge Street resident Heather Courtney. The Wellington Airport noise zone. Heather Courtney says her retirement plans were thrown into disarray by a letter in her mail box this week. The Bridge St resident is one of 22 home owners on the edge of Wellington Airport’s runway who were told the airport wouldContinueContinue reading “The Dominion Post: Airport plans may create ‘wasteland’”
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