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			Planning For The Future Of The Shoalhaven City Coastline

	Home Why Council is preparing a Coastal Zone Management Plan What is a Coastline Management Plan? Council decisions affecting our coastline Shoalhaven Coastal Zone Management Plan - stages of development Planning for our coastline A changing coastline Planning to protect our environment The community's concerns What are Shoalhaven's coastal hazards? Beach storm erosion Coastal recession Coastal inundation Dune instability and sand movement Geotechnical Hazards Climate Change and the Shoalhaven Coast Warmer average temperatures Changes to storms Rise in sea level Links to more information How Council is planning for climate change Hazard Maps Here! Sea level rise - what the government and Council are doing Revised coastal hazard studies and maps Updating the Coastal Zone Management Plan Coastal risk development controls NSW Coastal Reform Package Contact Links	Our coastline. Our future. Working with our community to protect our assets Our valuable coastline Our 165 kilometres of coastline, stretching from Shoalhaven Heads to North Durras, is one of our biggest assets. About 46,000 people live along the coast. In holiday times safe beaches and lakes in a peaceful and natural setting attract five times that many visitors - tourism and coastal recreation are big employers. Coastal hazards threaten our environment Coastal hazard studies have shown our coast is affected by severe erosion. Erosion will worsen in the future, creating major challenges. Difficult decisions need to be made about how to manage these hazards to best protect the natural landscape, Council's assets (such as parks, facilities sewer lines) and people's homes, now and in the future. Council's investment in a sustainable coastline The Shoalhaven Coastline Zone Management Plan is one way Council is managing the effects of changing hazards on our coast. For each beach and coastal community, the Plan sets out what needs to be done and why some management approaches are better than others. The report will guide: development and use of land access to beaches, dunes and headlands use of recreational facilities management of vegetation, biodiversity and landscape for beaches, dunes and coastal reserves community involvement. View draft plan Council is in the process of updating the draft Coastal Zone Management Plan to take into account recent changes to the coastal hazard assessment. To view the Executive Summary of the existing draft Coastal Zone Management Plan (dated March 2009), click here. The revised Coastal Zone Management Plan will be available for community comment early in 2010. What's new? Environmental Defenders Office - Free seminar on environmental law and coastal communities, 23rd June 2010. Click Here for more information. Council has recently revised and updated its coastal erosion hazard study. Click here to go to the full updated report and the most up to date maps of areas affected by coastal erosion hazards. 8 April 2010: The NSW government has released a package of statutory, policy and guideline reforms for the management of coastal erosion issues. In particular, amendments to the Coastal Protection Act will provide for temporary emergency coastal protection works. Amendments to the NSW Infrastructure SEPP affect consent requirements for coastal protection works. The reforms also introduce new powers for Council, including charges/levies for coastal properties and increased powers and penalties in relation to unauthorised materials dumped on beaches. DECCW has also released: Draft Minister’s Requirements for Temporary Protection Works Draft Guide to Statutory Requirements for Temporary Coastal Protection Works Submissions may be made on the draft requirements and draft guide before 7 May 2010. 30 November 2009: Council has finalised its Draft DCP 118 and it is on public exhibition. Click here to read the draft. 9 November 2009: Updated Culburra Coastal Hazard Map posted. 4 November 2009: The National Sea Change Task Force Newsletter, October 2009 provides context and comments on recent government announcements about coastal management. 27 October 2009: The House Standing Committee on Climate Change, Water the Environment and the Arts has released its report into the impact of climate change on coastal communities - 'Managing our coastal zone in a changing climate:the time to act is now'. Click here to read the report. 19 October 2009: The NSW Government has announced new reforms to coastal erosion management in NSW. The reforms will be discussed at the Coastal Conference at Ballina 4-6 November 2009 and include a final sea level rise policy, new planning guidelines and emergency management measures for 19 ‘hot spot’ beaches along the coast. Two of these beaches are in the Shoalhaven. For further information, click here The Extent of the Shoalhaven Coastline Click on coastal areas to see an aerial photograph of the site: For more information, contact Council's Natural Resources and Floodplain Manager, or Council's Coasts and Estuaries Officer. Contact details are available here.