Appendix F- Acousitc Report · MCU21/0117.01

Cooroy Villas Pty Ltd
Environmental Traffic and Rail Noise Level Impact Assessment for Proposed Residential Unit Development,
54 Elm Street and 5 Pearl Street, Cooroy                                                                     Page 6 of 36




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CRITERIA

Measurements and Calculations

All noise level measurements were conducted generally in accordance with the following:

•   general requirements of the Queensland environmental protection legislation;
•   Environmental Protection (Noise) Policy 2019;
•   Noise Measurement Manual, Queensland Government – Environmental Protection Agency, Version
    4, August 2013; and
•   Australian Standard AS 1055-2018, Acoustics – Description and Measurement of Environmental
    Noise.

All traffic noise level measurements were conducted in accordance with the following:
•   Australian Standard AS 2702-1984, Acoustics – Methods for the Measurement of Road Traffic
    Noise; and
•   Transport Noise Management: Code of Practice, Volume 1 – Road Traffic Noise, Queensland
    Department of Transport and Main Roads, Issue 2, November 2013.
All traffic noise calculations were performed in accordance with the following:

•   Calculation of Road Traffic Noise, Department of Transport, Welsh Office, HMSO, 1988; and

•   Australian Standard AS 3671-1989, Acoustics – Road Traffic Noise Intrusion – Building Siting and
    Construction.



Noise Limits - Rail

In accordance with the Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning
State Development Assessment Provisions – version 3.0. State Code 2: Development in a railway
environment, section titled:

Material change of use (accommodation activity)
Ground floor level requirements adjacent to a railway or Type 2 multi-modal corridor:

PO41 Development minimises noise intrusion from a railway in private open space at the ground floor.

AO41.1 Development provides a noise barrier or earth mound which is designed, sited and constructed:

    1. to achieve the maximum free field acoustic levels in reference table 2 (item 2.2) for private open
       space at the ground floor level:

    2. in accordance with:




David Moore & Associates Pty Ltd                                          Our reference: R23089.docx/D3819/Rev.0/17.01.24