E-Petition

Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House the substantial and unreasonable 24-hour-a-day noise, stemming from the Pacific Motorway (M1) at Upper Coomera and Pimpama. This noise is causing significant discomfort for residents residing in the area known as Coomera Springs. The M1 was built in the 1990’s and, since then, the traffic flow has increased 10-fold on this stretch of the M1.

The absence of sound barriers has significant negative impact on Basic Quality Living Standards (BQLS) for residents, including sleep deprivation 24 hours a day and particularly from 4am, when traffic builds towards peak hour, thus disturbing normal sleep patterns every night, which is a proven health detriment.

Despite noise mitigation strategies on their own properties, by installing air-conditioning and keeping windows and doors closed, the noise level causes residents to lose sleep, forces them to raise radio and television volumes to hear them and drown out M1 noise, and even move to other areas within their homes, to have basic conversations.

Residents are aware that, beyond a 10-year horizon, following a developer completing its contractual responsibilities, the area must be considered in the same way as all other noise affected residences on state-controlled roads. 

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House do all in its power to have noise amelioration barriers installed, as a matter of high priority, adjacent to the Coomera Springs residential area, to mitigate the level of noise pollution, directly caused by the increased traffic volumes on the M1, particularly in the last decade.