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Originally Posted by djr81
You can say that for anywhere along the coast from Albany to Geraldton. If people are stupid enough to want to build a house near a racetrack and a waste facility then they should not complain.
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The Government and Shire / Council have a lot to answer for here. They are the ones who give approval for developments, whether it's a race track, housing, or a shopping centre. They also don't decide overnight, "lets build some houses here". The housing estates and shopping centres and other major infrastructure ( schools etc ) are planned years, often decades, in advance. So for them to give approval for a racetrack to be built where they know they want to build houses in xx years time, they should be held to account for their decision making. Property developers don't care how close to the track it is or the noise, because they only want to flog the houses and make a fortune, and as long as people keep buying houses that have been built in idiotic location without thinking about what is in the local proximity, nothing will change. If people where smart enough to not buy houses next the the race track / airport / motorway / whatever, then just maybe after a few totally failed estates the developers and local council might finally learn the lesson. As long as the developers and the council are making money, it will only change if people force them to, by not buying their houses in stupid locations. There is no excuse, and no need to build houses right next to the race track, there's 3000km of empty land to the east of Perth, and a good 1000km north and south, so it's not they are confined by limited amount of land.