Originally Posted by
Advance
Sorry Piper Cameron but BNE was always intended to have a parallel runway.
GO back to the 1970's Parliamentrary Public Works Committee documents and you can follow the design through to the Airport Master Plan.
Roads were laid out, the tower sited, its pillars oriented, all to allow for that runway.
In those days the Department of Many Names (DCA then I think) included what is now CASA and AsA as well as the "Airports Branch" which then designed airports but later became simply a management function in the Department where it is today.
One thing that did change following community consultation is that the new parallel was "slid" north along its centerline to reduce noise in the suburbs to the south of the airport.
Thank BACL for that change; it had zip to do with the government.
The processes for BNE were vastly different (and much better informed) than those for WSI.
Except Melbourne which has had a 4 runway master plan since the 70s is struggling with the politics of building the third because they released the flight paths before building it. Melbourne Airport should have just said, tough, you moved there, it's being built, and look at your section 32, it's probably got airport noise overlay as part of its caveats.