RESIDENT CONCERNS
Friends of Mona Vale have been contacted from a number of residents in Foley Street and Warriewood Road at Mona Vale and are upset with Blackmores who are not abiding by consent conditions relating to hours of operation. The residents are fed up and loosing sleep with the continual noise of delivery trucks and fork lifts operating inside and outside the building at all hours of the night, every night.
Blackmores are a 24 hour operation and are not operating as per Development Consent. Pittwater Council has failed to date to ensure compliance and rectification of the work methods.
There has been no acoustic monitoring supervised by Pittwater Council and no Complaints Handling Register as required in the Consent Conditions.
Blackmores consent is based on Acoustic Logic Consultancy modelling contained in their February 2006 Report, their amended June 2006 Report, their amended August 2006 Report, their second amended August 2006 Report and the Pittwater Council Development Control Plan DCP 9 “Acoustic Controls”.
The present work methods are not consistent with the work methods as modelled by Acoustic Logic Consultancy as part of the consent. Acoustic Logic Consultancy modelling is based on the use of the internal loading docks and no work outside in the truck turning and parking area.
The Acoustic Logic Consultancy modelling requires the use of non audible reversing warnings on forklifts. Blackmores present work method (except for rear loading containers) is for the loading and unloading to be carried out in the outside truck turning and parking area.
Blackmores presently use the truck turning and parking area daily for continuous warehouse work including labelling, sorting and storing, with materials brought out first thing each morning and returned inside at each night.
This work method generates excessive outside forklift activity often before 6am and not finishing until after 10pm with 3 or 4 forklifts in operation at any one time resulting with a continuous reversing beeping to be heard.
With the light loads involved, double stacked pallets are regularly carried, blocking forward vision resulting in most travel to be in reverse. Even with roller doors closed the reverse beeping can be heard throughout the night from inside the building.
The beeping is highly intrusive and disturbing, “worming” it’s way into the brain creating “phantom noise”.
Residents are very concerned with Blackmores continuously breaching Consent Conditions, loosing sleep night after night and Pittwater Council is not acting on complaints lodged.
Blackmores are a 24 hour operation and are not operating as per Development Consent. Pittwater Council has failed to date to ensure compliance and rectification of the work methods.
There has been no acoustic monitoring supervised by Pittwater Council and no Complaints Handling Register as required in the Consent Conditions.
Blackmores consent is based on Acoustic Logic Consultancy modelling contained in their February 2006 Report, their amended June 2006 Report, their amended August 2006 Report, their second amended August 2006 Report and the Pittwater Council Development Control Plan DCP 9 “Acoustic Controls”.
The present work methods are not consistent with the work methods as modelled by Acoustic Logic Consultancy as part of the consent. Acoustic Logic Consultancy modelling is based on the use of the internal loading docks and no work outside in the truck turning and parking area.
The Acoustic Logic Consultancy modelling requires the use of non audible reversing warnings on forklifts. Blackmores present work method (except for rear loading containers) is for the loading and unloading to be carried out in the outside truck turning and parking area.
Blackmores presently use the truck turning and parking area daily for continuous warehouse work including labelling, sorting and storing, with materials brought out first thing each morning and returned inside at each night.
This work method generates excessive outside forklift activity often before 6am and not finishing until after 10pm with 3 or 4 forklifts in operation at any one time resulting with a continuous reversing beeping to be heard.
With the light loads involved, double stacked pallets are regularly carried, blocking forward vision resulting in most travel to be in reverse. Even with roller doors closed the reverse beeping can be heard throughout the night from inside the building.
The beeping is highly intrusive and disturbing, “worming” it’s way into the brain creating “phantom noise”.
Residents are very concerned with Blackmores continuously breaching Consent Conditions, loosing sleep night after night and Pittwater Council is not acting on complaints lodged.