The only aircraft noise monitoring in the Mountains will be at Linden, despite concerns that the Lower Mountains and other areas will bear more of the noise burden from the new western Sydney airport.

The mayor, Mark Greenhill, revealed at last week's council meeting that staff had been told by Air Services Australia that the Mid Mountains town will have the solitary noise monitoring site. All other sites proposed will be closer to the airport in western Sydney.

Councillors called for sites to also be set up at Blaxland or Glenbrook and at Katoomba to ensure accurate data is collected.

Cr Greenhill told the Gazette the worst affected areas under the airport plans will be Warrimoo, East Blaxland, Mt Riverview, Hawkesbury Heights and the Megalong.

Cr Greenhill also told the meeting that Blue Mountains Council has not been included in the Western Sydney International Airport Community Aviation Consultation Group. Other councils, including Penrith, have been invited to be part of the group but Blue Mountains has not received an invitation.

Council voted to write to the new airport's engagement manager, requesting that it be included in the group "as a key stakeholder and local government area significantly impacted by the operation of the airport".

The council papers also include council's submission on the airport's master plan, which urges a curfew be imposed to maintain the treasured peaceful and quiet atmosphere of the Mountains.

Both council and the Blue Mountains Demands Airport Curfew (BMDAC) residents' group made this a key part of their submissions.

Council wrote, again, that the Blue Mountains is "not another suburb of Sydney. It is a unique and internationally recognised location" which council has worked to protect and preserve.

"These protections are supported by the Blue Mountains community who consciously choose to live in this unique natural location due to these environmental values.

"The community, to varying degrees, will be impacted by the acoustic and visual impacts, in common with other parts of western Sydney. The point of difference is that these residents have chosen towns and villages and a living environment not unreasonably impacted by noise."

The residents' group noted that in the master plan the airport styled itself as a good and beneficial community partner. But they disagreed for the following reasons: