Tara Murray
Online and in person consultation sessions about the Melbourne Airport draft Master Plan and draft Major Development Plan start next week.
The plans which were released this week, detail the airport’s plans for the next five years, 20 years and long term, with the key plank the construction of a third runway.
The runway will run north-south, with many people set to be impacted by the development and changes to flight path.
The airport is running a number of sessions to help residents better understand the two plans and the impact.
Online sessions start on February 10 and will run every Thursday until May 5 between 7pm and 9pm.
Each session will cover a different topic, including a third runway overview, sustainability, social impacts, aircraft noise, transport and heritage.
In person sessions will be held in a number of locations, across affected municipalities including Brimbank.
There will be a library talk at Keilor library on health impacts on February 26 and another at the library on April 12 about the draft runway operation plan.
There will be a talk on the third runway at Taylors Lakes Community Centre on March 15 and one at Victoria University’s Sunshine campus on airspace architecture on March 19.
Every fortnight, the airport has arranged meet the planner days, where people can either book in person or online sessions with one of the airport planners.
One of those days, March 22, will be held at Keilor library.
Other sessions which don’t require booking include park pop-ups, including one at Brimbank Park on March 12, in terminal pop-ups and car park walk-throughs at the airport.
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