Good afternoon.I'm Paula Bundell and I am giving you the lectures on Environmental Noise this term.Today we are going to look into the effects of noise on a planned housing estate in a particularly difficult part of the new Manchester Park area.

This site is not as bad as some I have researched in the past.The Blacktown airport is closed from 6pm to 7am and this is a great advantage to the site.The only noise after dark is from the highway and the traffic is somewhat reduced between 7.30pm and 5.30am.So,the people most affected by the noise will be.I expect,housewives.By the time most of the students and workers have arrived back home in the evening during the week the noise will have abated to a fairly large extent.The weekends are still a problem of course,but the traffic is certainly reduced on Saturdays to a large extent and even more so on Sundays.