Fed up Keilor residents are continuing to push for a solution to noise caused by planes at Melbourne Airport.
The suburb lies just a few kilometres from one of the airport’s runways and is directly under a flight path.
There is no current airport curfew, which means residents are subjected to loud noise at all hours.
Keilor Residents and Ratepayers Association president Susan Jenninson said the problem remained serious.
“We average around 50 planes flying over the house between the hours of 11pm to 6am each night,” she said.
“The noise can reach as high as 80 decibels and shakes the entire house. It’s incredibly intrusive into people’s lifestyles.”
Ms Jenninson has long campaigned for meaningful action to be taken to quell the noise, but she said concerns were falling on deaf ears.
“We’d love the Environment Protection Authority to seriously study the impact of noise to people living in the affected areas and would hope they’d consider putting in a curfew,” she said.
“Gold Coast, Sydney and Adelaide airports all have curfews, but Melbourne airport doesn’t have one.”
In 2016, an aircraft noise monitor was removed from Keilor village after “a more suitable location” was identified in Moonee Valley, adding to resident anger.
A representative of Airservices Australia, the body which handles complaints surrounding noise generated by planes, said each complaint was taken seriously.
“We take every individual complaint and report back to the airport,” he said.
“From there we can try to help with some solutions like different flight paths, but that’s likely to just shift the noise from one location to another.
“Things like a curfew fall under federal government jurisdiction, so anything like that would come solely from them and not us.”
Melbourne Airport was contacted for comment.
