Results of CACG survey Leonie Horrocks
Mar 31, 2015
Results of CACG surveyLeonie Horrocks
Positive Aspects of CACGs
•Platform for information sharing
•Open discussion
•Great / effective chairperson
•Raising community awareness / community consultation
•Strong support from airport
•All relevant parties present
Major issues over last 12 months
• Noise
• Master plan consultation
• Future expansion: infrastructure, flight paths & development
• Major Development Projects
• Circuit training & impact on community
• Traffic congestion & public transport around airport
Biggest challenges
• Noise associated matters
• Too much time spent discussing noise
• Developing meaningful agenda items
• Conflicting views of members
• Attracting or keeping community representation
• Vocal minority groups & full representation of community
• Increased aviation activity
• Lack of independence of the CACG chair
Issues that dominate discussion
• Noise
• Aviation matters: circuit training, flight paths and aircraft movements
• On-airport operations
• Airport developments
• Planning / rezoning / green wedge
• Congestion and road traffic
• Curfew
• Terms of Reference and structure of CACG
• No dominating issue / equal coverage
Outcomes of CACGs
• Information exchange
• Installation of noise monitoring devices
• Fly friendly procedures
• Better / improved understanding of airport issues
• Improvements in communication and community consultation
• Nil / very little / hard to measure
Effective and open discussion?
68%
8%
23%
Yes
Has potential
No
Breakdown - Effective and open discussion?
Yes 76%
Has potential6%
No18%
Airport
Yes 75%
No25%
CACG Chairs
Yes 68%
Has potential11%
No20%
CACG Members
Equal opportunity for all CACG members to put forward their views?
81%
3%
16%
Yes
To some extent
No
Breakdown - Equal opportunity for all CACG members to put forward their views?
Yes82%
No18%
Airport
Yes89%
No11%
CACG Chairs
Yes80%
To some ex-tent5%
No16%
CACG Members
Strategic dialogue between the airport and community?
58%22%
21%
Yes Not yet, but has potential
No
Breakdown - Strategic dialogue between the airport and community?
Yes33%
Not yet, but has po-tential27%
No40%
Airport
Yes73%
Not yet, but has potential
18%
No9%
CACG Chairs
Yes61%
Not yet, but has potential
23%
No16%
CACG Members
Improvements to CACGs?
28%
35%
6%
5%
27%
Membership
Community participation
Meeting frequency
Meeting time
Other
Breakdown - Improvements to CACGs?
54%
31%
15%Airport
Membership
Community participation
Meeting frequency
35%
53%
6%6%
CACG Chairs
Membership
Community participation
Meeting frequency
Meeting time
Other
27%
41%
7%
10%
15%CACG Members
MembershipCommunity participationMeeting frequencyMeeting timeOther
Preferred frequency of meetings?1%
11%
26%
53%
8%
Once a year
Twice a year
Three times a year
Four times a year
Other
Breakdown - Preferred frequency of meetings?
7%
20%
20%
47%
7% Airport
Once a yearTwice a yearThree times a yearFour times a yearOther
9%
27%
64%
CACG Chairs
Twice a year
Three times a year
Four times a year
7%
29%
55%
10%CACG Members
Twice a year
Three times a year
Four times a year
Other - More than Four
Dissemination of information to the community
14%
27%
45%
14%
CACG website
Airport website
Personal email
Other
Patterns in CACG meeting reportsHelen Gannon• Number of meetings held since 2011
• Attendance breakdown
• Breakdown of issues
• Breakdown of issues – Capital Cities vs smaller airports
Number of Meetings held for all Airports since 2011
16%
53%
32%
1 to 5 meetings
6 to 9 meetings
10 or more meetings
Attendance across all Airports
21%
9%
31%
8%
5%
5%
11%
10%
0.2% 0.4%Airport
AsA
Community
Local Council
State Gov
Fed Gov
The Dept
Industry / Stakeholder
CASA
Other
Breakdown of Issues
20%
11%
12%
20%
16%
21% Noise
Land use planning
Community
Construction & Infrastructure
Aviation
Other
Breakdown of IssuesCapital cities vs smaller airports
20%
12%
12%
22%
14%
19%
21%
9%
12%
18%
17%
24%
Noise Land use planningCommunity Construction & InfrastructureAviation Other