Residents demand Warren Truss step in to force Melbourne Airport on runway process

By Clay Lucas
Updated August 3 2015 - 5:08pm, first published 5:06pm
Residents who live near Melbourne Airport are demanding federal infrastructure minister Warren Truss force the airport to run an environmental impact process over a proposed third runway, as the noise will affect their homes and schools.  Photo: Arsineh Houspian
Residents who live near Melbourne Airport are demanding federal infrastructure minister Warren Truss force the airport to run an environmental impact process over a proposed third runway, as the noise will affect their homes and schools. Photo: Arsineh Houspian
Gladstone Park Primary School will be almost directly beneath the proposed flight path of a third runway at Melbourne Airport. Pictured from left to right are Marikka, Tuscany, resident group vice-president Frank Rivoli, Nathan and Lachlan.  Photo: Arsineh Houspian
Gladstone Park Primary School will be almost directly beneath the proposed flight path of a third runway at Melbourne Airport. Pictured from left to right are Marikka, Tuscany, resident group vice-president Frank Rivoli, Nathan and Lachlan. Photo: Arsineh Houspian

A group representing thousands of residents who could soon live beneath a proposed third runway's flight path at Tullamarine say federal and state MPs must force Melbourne Airport to run a public study on the project's impacts.

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