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at which the door is rolled up or down, and its general condition. The 6.00am start
time and 10.00pm – midnight finish time for the café makes this particular noise
important to control, which can easily be achieved by controlling the speed at which
the doors are operated.
It is noted that the café is yet to be fitted out, and in that regard it is recommended
that consideration be given to controlling the internal reverberant characteristics.
This will serve two purposes. The first is that it will directly lower any noise coming
out of the café by controlling the reverberant noise level. The second is that by
lowering the internal noise level, patrons will communicate at lower vocal efforts,
further reducing the total noise produced by the café.

8. Summary and Conclusions

The proposed café at 18 Duke St, Sunshine Beach can be operated in a manner that
achieves the Outcomes of the Noosa Plan i.e. without significant adverse change to
noise in the area.
The measures required to do this are predominately operational in nature, and are
therefore dependent on staff being very aware of the potential for noise generation,
and pro-actively addressing it as required.
Suggestions have been made to address potential noise sources, however these
shouldn’t be considered to be exhaustive.
The suggestions made within this report are put forward to minimise the potential
for annoyance caused by noise from the café. Surveys have shown that regardless of
the noise source (industrial, traffic, commercial or residential), noise complaints are
most often made after the complainant is already so annoyed that they are very
difficult or impossible to appease, regardless of what measures are implemented. It
is therefore strongly advised that the café operators pay particular attention to noise
during the first days and weeks after trading commences in order to quickly establish
what levels of noise the café will typically produce and develop effective site-specific
methods for noise control.
I trust this is sufficient for your present requirements. However, if you have any
further queries please contact me on 0416 132 51 or at [email protected] Sincerely




Joseph Carroll
B. Eng (Environmental) RPEQ (Civil) 7798
Member, Australian Acoustical Society
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