Blue Mountains City Council will hold a community meeting on the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Badgerys Creek Airport on Saturday, October 15.
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The meeting will be held at Glenbrook Park from 3-5pm.
Blue Mountains mayor Mark Greenhill said they originally planned to hold the event in the Springwood Theatre and Hub.
“[The theatre] is booked pretty solidly and the dates it is available don't line up with parliamentary sitting times. This is important because we have invited a number of MPs,” Cr Greenhill said.
"The federal government has released the final EIS and it leaves major questions unanswered, like where the flight paths will be.
"This document has been rushed and does not form any basis for a decision as important as this.
"Blue Mountains City Council is opposed to any airport at Badgerys Creek.
"We now want to touch base with the community and hear from them about where we take this issue from here.”
Community sentiment in the Blue Mountains towards the proposed airport has been extremely vocal and the draft EIS received 5000 submissions, 80 per cent of them coming from area residents.
Earlier this year Cr Greenhill called the EIS a “con job”.
"This latest report is strong on rhetoric but short on facts. It is all part of the self-justification process.
“We will still see planes 24/7 at 4000 feet over the Mountains. It will damage our quality of life, wreck our tourist economy and massively impact the World Heritage Area itself.”
Cr Greenhill, a Labor mayor, has been at odds with his federal counterpart over the airport, having had expressed support for it in the past.
Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten told a meeting between him and Blue Mountains residents at the Blue Mountains Theatre back in August the support for the airport wasn’t a “blank cheque”.
“If our conditions are not met or if the EIS really doesn’t stack up I will never be so arrogant to say that because someone said nine years before the proposed opening of an airport that ‘we’ve done that’, so nothing can ever change your mind – that is not me,” Mr Shorten said.
“I know people would like me to say our policy has changed today, it hasn’t,” Mr Shorten said.
“But what I am doing here is I am listening and we are going to keep working through the issues.”