The curse of vegetation machinery and uncivil meatheads
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025We live and work from home in a quiet leafy area on the edge of The Gully on the edge of Katoomba.
Yet on a semi-regular basis different neighbours, unannounced, choose at times to suddenly start up loud machinery to break that peace and quiet.
Due common courtesy would be for a neighbour to inform nearby neighbours of pending machinery racket, but instead they couldn’t give a rats about imposing their noise pollution on neighbours.
Here are a few example snippets:
Monday · 24 Feb 2025 · 08:20…
Thursday · 20 Mar 2025 · 13:22…
Tuesday · 22 Apr 2025 · 08:36…
And, all this unwelcome noise culture is not just from selfish discourteous neighbours and their contractors.
Also, we cop similar machinery noise outside our window from:
- Blue Mountains Council – roadworks, footpath works
- NBN Internet concrete sawing for trenching optical fibre
- Sydney Water
- Electricians and other trades
- Endeavour Energy’s – vegetation contractor Asplundh or Active Tree Services
- Even RAAF low-flying its Hercules and Globemaster transport aircraft from Richmond Airbase at a close 500 feet directly over our home
- And other private aircraft thinking they can flout the 1000 foot minimum altitude over built-up areas like ours (we know the low altitudes since we hold a commercial helicopter license)
All unannounced.
Perhaps Richmond Air Traffic Control Tower wouldn’t mind if one was to buzz the tower unannounced?
