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City of Kingston Chocfrog Award -   

Via the #SBG blog version: https://auntypru.com/sbg-5-12-21-the-wor...off-suite/

Concerns raised in Council’s submission include:

• Insufficient land set aside for the Airport’s core aviation role and non-aviation uses prioritised over aviation support services.
  
• Unconstrained retail, industrial and commercial development on the Airport land poses a risk to other Activity Centres across Kingston.
  
• Location of proposed industrial and warehouse buildings along sensitive interfaces – including neighbouring established homes - with no urban design guidance or performance measures to manage the amenity impact on adjoining residents.
  
• The loss of green open spaces and the extent to which this exacerbates existing urban heat island issues associated with the airport.
  
• Airport safety, noise and the extent of development proposed immediately adjacent existing runways generates issues for pilots associated with windshear.
  
• The suggestion that the Moorabbin Airport could appropriately be located within the Urban Growth Boundary and the extent to which this proposal contradicts State Planning Policy.
  

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Airport Safety

For many years Kingston Council has worked closely with the local community and the Moorabbin Airport Corporation to ensure strong safety standards are upheld in the airport precinct.

The Moorabbin Airport is uniquely located surrounded by residential areas and therefore safety at the site is a key concern for local residents.

Council is keen to see the safe use of the site as an aviation centre continue but has concerns about the level of development at the airport and how it may impact on safety.

Through a range of submissions, including to the Airport Master Plan, Council has advocated that the airport – particularly those areas exposed to a high level of aircraft approaches – is not developed in a manner that creates an inappropriate additional level of risk.

Stronger oversight of development at the site by the federal regulators would be welcomed regarding the manner in which the aviation and land use activities at the airport will operate and integrate to improve air safety. 

Council wishes to reaffirm an earlier submission that there should be no further development that is not aviation-related or Green-Wedge-compliant on the Moorabbin Airport land. This is in keeping with the Airports Act requirement that airport planning should be consistent with State and Local Planning Provisions.

In particular, there should be no more large warehouse-type buildings constructed near the ends of the runways where they may impede the efforts of pilots with engine trouble trying to get back to the airport and to land safely, instead of crash-landing in residential streets.

Ref: https://www.kingston.vic.gov.au/Communit...ort-Safety

[url=https://www.kingston.vic.gov.au/Community/Advocacy-Projects/Open-Advocacy/Moorabbin-Airport-Safety][/url]
Plus: KC AMROBA GA Inquiry Sup Submission 10.6 tabled yesterday: https://auntypru.com/wp-content/uploads/...tion-2.pdf

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Finally via FB AOPA CEO Ben Morgan opens up on Aware Super's airport investment portfolio...

BEST OF THE BEST? 
AWARE SUPER - LEASEHOLDER OF BANKSTOWN & CAMDEN AIRPORTS - AWARDED BY MONEY MAGAZINE
Open letter published on the Aware Super facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/AwareSuper

As a stakeholder in your airport investment, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Australia would like to give you some important public feedback - because we hold our doubts as to how 'aware' you really are regarding the management of your airports asset.

The actions of your management team, since 2015, have resulted in a ramp up of business closures and the destruction of aviation capability at both Bankstown and Camden Airports.

The pleas of local aviation business, the industry associations and peak bodies and leadership - all ignored. Business treated like garbage, and forced to accept commercial terms, in the full knowledge it will likely push them to closure.

Small to medium sized aviation businesses have been priced out, and forced off the airport site, displacing aviation from the only place in the Sydney basin where it can exist. The result, is the wholesale ruination of aviation skills and capability.

Even the industry's biggest players, including Boeing, have packed up and relocated. The situation is perilous.

Since taking control of the airport, aviation land rents have skyrocketed to record levels, to such an extent that businesses have been crippled, undermining any capacity for local operators to invest in their own futures.

It has become a race to the bottom.

Local aviation businesses cannot secure leases with any tenure, forced into lease contracts with 6 month termination clauses and living under the threat of eviction. The result is little to no investment into facilities and capability.

Businesses report that they are struggling to communicate and to deal with your management and representatives, resulting in unpleasant tensions and disagreements.

Meanwhile, on the southern side of Bankstown Airport, a new $450million non-aviation commercial industrial development now towers over the site - with additional sites on the northern side now earmarked for conversion to non-aviation. Clearly, Aware Super's interests in airports does not extend to actual aviation.

Is this the Best of the Best?

How is the destruction of aviation jobs and small to medium sized business a good thing? What does Aware Super have to say to those in aviation who are watching their superannuation being destroyed?

Is any of this doing good for all?

I openly invite representatives of the Aware Super Board of Directors and Executive Management to make contact with me, to have an honest and fearless conversation about your investment and your management's impact on our industry.

Furthermore, I shall be more than happy to arrange a meeting of the Bankstown and Camden Airport business community, so you can all hear first hand how your airport assets are being managed. I urge you to take this opportunity.

I openly invite any Aware Super shareholders or media who are as concerned as we are, to contact me to discuss my post above.

Thank you for your time, and I await a reply.

MTF...P2