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RENZO TONIN & ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 2020 REDEVELOPMENT OF WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY Noise Impact Assessment September 2020 BAC WMR Holdings Pty Limited TK792-03F04 Wakefield Park Raceway Noise Impact Assessment (r0) BAC WMR HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED REDEVELOPMENT OF WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY TK792-03F04 WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY NOISE IMPACT NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT (R0) 1 RENZO TONIN & ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 2020 Document details Detail Reference Doc reference: TK792-03F04 Wakefield Park Raceway Noise Impact Assessment (r0) Prepared for: BAC WMR Holdings Pty Limited Address: Benalla Auto Club Inc 41 Fox Street WINTON VIC 3673 Attention: Mr Chris Lewis-Williams Document control Non-issued Issued Date Revision history Prepared Instructed Authorised revision revision Sept 2020 Issued to client 0 RT RT RT Important Disclaimer: The work presented in this document was carried out in accordance with the Renzo Tonin & Associates Quality Assurance System, which is based on Australian Standard / NZS ISO 9001. 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BAC WMR HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED REDEVELOPMENT OF WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY TK792-03F04 WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY NOISE IMPACT NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT (R0) 2 RENZO TONIN & ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 2020 Executive summary BAC WMR Holdings Pty Ltd is the owner of land situated at 4770 Braidwood Road Tirrannaville NSW 2580 located in a rural area approximately 11 km south of Goulburn, within the local government area of Goulburn Mulwaree Council. On 1 June 1993, Council granted consent under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 to development application 145/9/4-140 for a `multi-purpose motor racing circuit' on the site, subject to conditions. The Raceway was opened in November 1994. Wakefield Park Motorsport Pty Ltd now leases the site to operate a motor racing track. The nearest sensitive residential receptors are approximately 400m north of the site boundary, but residents up to 10 km away have complained to Council about unacceptable noise allegedly emanating from the motor racing track. As a consequence of the complaints, Council issued BAC WMR with a prevention notice dated 25 January 2019. Following a conciliation conference, by order of the Land & Environment Court on 8 January 2020, BAC WMR was required to take the actions outlined in Schedule 1 annexed to the order. In particular, clause 19. of Schedule 1 limits the number of events which may be held during the year based on the emitted noise level from an event. By agreement with Council, BAC WMR is to submit a complete development application in relation to the ongoing use and operation of the motor racing track. This report is prepared pursuant to that requirement and includes a description of the acoustic engineering work that was formative in Council and BAC WMR coming to an agreement on the terms of Schedule 1. That acoustic engineering work involved the following: a) a set of extensive noise surveys conducted at trackside and at the nearest residential receivers for four events on the following dates: • WPM meeting Saturday 4 May 2019 • CAMS State meeting Saturday 25 May 2019 • GEAR meeting Wednesday 26 June 2019 • SOS meeting Thursday 3 October 2019 b) the preparation of a computer based noise model which was validated by the attended survey data; and, c) the preparation of a working noise model based on standard meteorological conditions which, with data from the Soundweb monitoring terminal installed on site, enables noise levels to be BAC WMR HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED REDEVELOPMENT OF WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY TK792-03F04 WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY NOISE IMPACT NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT (R0) 3 RENZO TONIN & ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 2020 measured or predicted for all future events so as to enable the Raceway to schedule its activities in a manner that effectively limits noise. It is concluded that noise impacts from the Raceway facility, including under the Development Application, are able to be satisfactorily managed so as to achieve a satisfactory level of acoustic amenity for nearby residences. Schedule 1 of the varied prevention notice already provides a rigorous regime of noise mitigation measures. The Development Application does not propose any changes that would increase noise generation. BAC WMR HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED REDEVELOPMENT OF WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY TK792-03F04 WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY NOISE IMPACT NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT (R0) 4 RENZO TONIN & ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 2020 Contents Executive summary 3 1 Introduction 7 2 Description of the Site, Raceway operations, nearest sensitive receivers and existing noise environment 8 2.1 Description of the Site 8 2.2 Raceway operations 12 2.3 Nearest sensitive receivers 17 2.4 Existing noise environment 18 3 Applicable noise criteria 20 3.1 Noise emitted from the Site 20 3.2 Noise emitted from additional traffic on existing roads 21 4 Measured and predicted noise levels 22 4.1 Measured noise levels 22 4.2 Description of predictive Noise Model 23 4.3 Validation of the Noise Model 24 4.4 Effect of noise enhancing meteorology 24 4.5 Preparation of Working Noise Model and predicted noise levels 25 5 Assessment of noise mitigation strategies and recommendations 27 6 Conclusion 29 References 30 APPENDIX A BAC WMR Holdings Pty Ltd v Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Notice of Variation of Direction to Take Preventive Action. Schedule 1 31 APPENDIX B Curriculum vitae of Renzo Tonin 32 APPENDIX C Glossary of terminology 36 APPENDIX D Goulburn Mulwaree Council Response to Resident Action Group Questions - Wakefield Park Raceway Prevention Notice. 14 February 2020 41 List of tables Table 1 Nearest sensitive receptor locations 17 Table 2 Minimum assumed RBLs 18 Table 3 List of attended noise measurements 22 List of figures Figure 1: Location of Site and nearest sensitive receivers (wide view) 10 Figure 2: Location of Site, nearest sensitive receiver and noise monitoring locations (and in addition R13b is not shown) (closeup view) 11 BAC WMR HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED REDEVELOPMENT OF WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY TK792-03F04 WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY NOISE IMPACT NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT (R0) 5 RENZO TONIN & ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 2020 Figure 3: View of Site showing the locations of the Soundweb at 42m from edge of the track and the additional monitor at 30m from the track (30m Monitor). 13 Figure 4: Soundweb equipment 14 Figure 5: 30m Monitor equipment 14 Figure 6: Control tower monitoring station 15 Figure 7: Static test procedure 15 BAC WMR HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED REDEVELOPMENT OF WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY TK792-03F04 WAKEFIELD PARK RACEWAY NOISE IMPACT NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT (R0) 6 RENZO TONIN & ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 2020 1 Introduction BAC WMR Holdings Pty Ltd (BAC WMR) is the owner of land situated at 4770 Braidwood Road Tirrannaville NSW 2580 (the Site) located in a rural area approximately 11 km south of Goulburn, within the local government area of Goulburn Mulwaree Council (Council). On 1 June 1993, Council granted consent under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 to development application 145/9/4-140 for a `multi-purpose motor racing circuit' on the Site, subject to conditions (Consent) [1]. The Raceway was opened in November 1994. Wakefield Park Motorsport Pty Ltd (WPM) now leases the Site to operate a motor racing track (the Raceway). The nearest sensitive residential receptors are approximately 400m north of the Site boundary, but residents up to 10 km away have complained to Council about unacceptable noise allegedly emanating from the Raceway.