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Parklands Community Hotline Register - Covering Falls Festival Byron Music & Arts Festival 2019/2020 - North Byron Parklands
Parklands Community Hotline Register
Covering Falls Festival Byron Music & Arts
Festival 2019/2020

Parklands Consent Condition D20

December 2019 – January 2020
Introduction
As part of the Development Consent SSD 8169, Parklands must provide effective mechanisms
to facilitate communication between Parklands and the community (including adjoining
affected landowners and businesses, and others directly impacted by the development) during
the operation of the development.

More than 12 years of continuous consultation has provided Parklands with a robust
understanding of event impacts on its immediate neighbours and the broader community.
During this time, a range of highly effective mechanisms have been implemented to monitor,
record and manage impacts and complaints.

Community hotline
The community hotline provides the most effective mechanism to record, respond and manage
complaints in the wider community.
To ensure the ongoing effective management and registration of complaints during medium
and large events, Parklands will:
 •     provide a community hotline with a dedicated landline (02 6680 4049) with multiple
       lines;
 •     record all incoming calls for quality control purposes;
 •     publish complaints to the Community Complaints Register on Parklands’ website
       including: date, time, unique identifying number, nature of complaint, details of
       complainant, and all actions taken;
 •     engage a minimum of two experienced community hotline operators on 8-hour shifts
       between 10am and 2am each event day for any multi-day large and medium event and
       for the duration of any single day medium event;
 •     provide a recorded voice mail service between 2am and 10am each event day;
 •     provide a 24-hour email service (community@northbyronparklands.com), to be
       monitored and (where required) responded to by the community hotline operator during
       shifts; and
 •     advertise the community hotline contact details (including landline, email and postal
       address) on Parklands’ website, in at least two local newspapers, and via letterbox drops
       to residents within a 3-km radius of the event site, at least two weeks before the
       commencement of a medium or large event.

Within six months of the date of consent of SSD-8169, Parklands will publish a Complaints
Register to its website (as per Access to Information requirements under Condition E13). The
Complaints Register will be updated monthly and will include the date, time, unique identifying
number, nature of complaint, and all actions taken. For privacy reasons, details of the
complainant will not be disclosed as part of this publicly available report.

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Managing complaints
    Parklands and its events are committed to continuous improvement and are led by an
    adaptive management approach on its noise management, acoustic monitoring, and
    communications processes.

    Noise complaints
    During medium and large events community hotline operators liaise directly with Acoustic
    Managers to record, manage and respond to noise complaints. In this way, the Acoustic
    Manager relays complaints as they are received to acoustic engineers in the field.
    The following flow chart illustrates the procedure to manage noise complaints through the
    community hotline.
                                                                                                              Details of
                      Date, time,                                                                               noise
                     complainant         Complainan                                            Details of    monitoring
  Resident           details, and         t requests                                              noise       recorded
                                                            Acoustic            Noise
calls with a           nature of         monitoring                                           monitoring       for post
                                                            engineer         monitoring
   noise                 noise               at the                                            relayed to       event
                                                             sent to         completed
 complaint           complaint is        location of                                          Community       analysis.
                                                            location         at location
                      captured in         the noise                                              Hotline      Operator
                      Complaints             issue                                              Operator     follows up
                        Register                                                                                  as
                                                                                                             necessary

    Where complaints are received from a single complainant three or more times, and noise levels
    are within approved noise limits on each occasion, any further complaints will be considered as
    repetitive complaints (per the requirements of the event’s Acoustic Monitoring Program).
    Where repetitive complaints are received by the hotline, additional noise monitoring at the
    complainant's location will be at the discretion of the event manager.

    Other complaints
    Complaints regarding offsite impacts such as illegal camping, littering, illegal parking, or anti-
    social behaviour are managed through the community hotline and Offsite Response Team. The
    following flow chart illustrates the procedure to manage these complaints through the
    community hotline.

                                                    Hotline
                           Date, time,                                                          Offsite
                                                   Operator
  Call regarding          complainant                                      Offsite            Response
                                                   contacts                                                       Hotline
illegal camping,          details, and                                   Response           Team report to
                                                    Offsite                                                      Operator
littering, illegal          nature of                                  Team, and/or            Hotline
                                                  Response                                                    follow up with
     parking,             complaint is                                    relevant          Operator with
                                                 Team and/or                                                  complainant as
    disruptive             captured in                                   authority            details of
                                                   relevant                                                      necessary
    behaviour              Complaints                                   attend issue         action taken
                                                 authority as
                             Register
                                                   required

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Receiving calls and logging complaints
The existing telephone PABX recording system was again installed and tested prior to FFB19/20.
The routing arrangements for incoming calls in instances where operators were engaged with
other calls was:
    •    The incoming caller automatically advised (via a pre-recorded message) that they are
         in a queue and will be answered as soon as possible;
    •    After 30 seconds, the caller is further advised that they may continue waiting or they
         can leave a detailed message for an operator to return; and
    •    In cases where a detailed message is left the caller is contacted by a member of the
         community hotline to discuss their issue.

Formal complaints to the community hotline were entered and tracked using the incident
management software Chronosoft. This system allows the Event Control Centre to track all
incidents including calls to the hotline covering offsite impacts including: noise, litter, illegal
parking, and anti-social behavior.

Chronosoft provides a time-stamped chronological sequence of events relating to each incident
and includes actions, response times, and resources used to manage issues and their resolution.

This system allows both the Event Control Centre and community hotline staff to monitor,
manage and follow up all issues in a timely manner, thereby increasing the efficiency that
complaints are resolved and recorded.

Integral to the process of continuous improvement is the involvement of key stakeholders.
Parklands’ Regulatory Working Group (RWG) includes representatives from various
government agencies and Council nominated community representatives. The RWG meets
before and after multi-day large events and identify opportunities for improvement on the
community hotline.

Falls Festival Byron 2019/2020
A total of four formal complaints were made by three residents by telephone to the hotline
between Monday 30 December 2019 and Friday 3 January 2020.
The hotline operated 24 hours a day and was staffed for a total of 56 hours from Monday 30
December to Thursday 2 January. A recorded message facility was in place outside staffed hours
per the requirements of the consent condition C5.

Of the total number of complaints lodged by phone or email at FFB19/20 the following
breakdown by issue type is provided below in Figure 1.

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Figure 1

The total number of complaints to the FFB community hotline between 2016-2019/20 is
provided below in Figure 2 by complaint type.

Figure 2

Managing noise and other offsite impacts FFB19/20
Continued improvement in noise management, rigorous acoustic monitoring, effective
communication, and regular patrols by the offsite response team has seen the continual
reduction in complaints of all types to the community hotline.

The following section provides details of the four formal complaints lodged with the community
hotline between 30 December 2019 and 3 January 2020. The hotline received numerous event
enquiries throughout the festival however no other formal complaints were made.
Personal or identifying details have been excluded from the public version of this log to protect
the privacy of complainants.

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Community hotline register FFB2019/20
   Identifying #         FFB01_65619       Date       1 January 2020        Time        10:22pm           Phone/Email       Phone
   UIN                                                                                                                      5EB.WAV, 5EC.WAV
   Name                  xxxx              Phone                            Email
   Caller Address        Xxxx, Ocean Shores
   Caller Issue          Bass is too loud, can hear in the lounge room
   Action Taken          Noise Monitor sent to address to measure from the road. Notified Community Manager.
   Follow up             Call back tomorrow and notify of outcome of monitoring.
                         Hotline operator tried to call the complainant at 11:15am, with no answer
                         At 1:25pm on the 2nd January, the Community Manager went for a face to face meeting with the complainant to discuss his call. He was appreciative
                         of the visit and was unsure if the sound was from the festival or the all day and evening dance party at the Billinudgel Hotel which was on from 1pm-
                         11pm with DJs. The Community Manager explained levels were compliant, so operator did not call the caller again.
   Audio                 Compliant

   Identifying #         FFB 02_65719      Date       1 January 2020        Time        10:30pm           Phone/Email       Phone
   UIN                                                                                                                      5EDWAV, 5EE.WAV, 5F0.WAV, 5F9.WAV
   Name                  xxxxx             Phone                            Email
   Caller Address        Xxxx, Yelgun
   Caller Issue          Sound is loud and inside the home. Can’t sleep.
                         Caller rang back at 11:50. Caller felt the levels were still too loud. Caller stated she had now closed her window and the noise level was audible
                         inside. Caller stated no need to send anyone as the stage was being shut down in 9 minutes.
   Action Taken          Noise Monitor sent to address to measure from the road

   Follow up             Call back tomorrow- Told caller on second call levels were compliant. No need to call back.
                         At 4:20pm on the 2nd January, the Community Manager called the complainant, who expressed she appreciated the visit.
   Audio                 Compliant
   Identifying #        FFB03_19               Date        2 January 2020      Time         10.11pm          Phone/Email        Phone

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UIN                                                                                                                       5FB.WAV

   Name                 xxxxx                  Phone                          Email
   Caller Address       xxxxx, Ocean Shores
   Caller Issue         Consistent noise for the last couple of hours.
   Action Taken         Monitors dispatched to sample by the road as requested. At 10.26pm samples were fully compliant. It’s noted the area is quiet and calm tonight
                        with ocean and highway noise audible. Low level event noise is audible in this area but compliant.
   Follow up            Did not want a call back. Is happy for monitors to leave information in the letterbox.
   Audio                 Compliant.

   Identifying #        FFB04_65019            Date       3 January 2020      Time         10.21am           Phone/Email     Phone
   UIN                                                                                                                       5FD.WAV
   Name                 xxxxx                  Phone                          Email
   Caller Address       xxxxx, Yelgun
   Caller Issue         Resident heard fireworks in the campground at 1.57am
   Action Taken         The complaint was received via voicemail the following day and registered as requested.
   Follow up            Parklands emailed the resident thanking them for the information and acknowledged the complaint would be captured in the hotline complaint
                        report.
   Audio                 NA

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