2021-10-08 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                                  8 OCTOBER 2021


Community comment                                     Proposed response
General – CHAP approach
                                                      - Council will continue to partnership with the State
                                                        Government, research agencies, CSIRO and the
                                                        Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) wherever possible
                                                        to enhance monitoring technology in Noosa.
                                                      - Council will continue to enhance its technical
                                                        capabilities for monitoring and data collection for
                                                        beach and river foreshores to help validate
                                                        assumption and inform future adaptation
                                                        responses.
                                                      (Refer to Sections 4 and 6 of the CHAP for
                                                      changes.)
Insurance
Concerns about the implications for insurance and     - Council has sought advice from the Insurance
ability to get insurance coverage. Will the CHAP        Council of Australia.
affect the cost and availability of insurance to      - Insurers update their premiums annually based
residents and businesses?                               on best available information.
Council needs to develop a comprehensive              - Insurers look at a range of data and factors
information paper to address the issue of insurance     including flood hazard modelling, but do not factor
responsibility and liability.                           in sea level rise changes or ‘actions of the sea’
                                                        such as storm surge.
                                                      - Coastal risks of storm surge, coastal erosion and
                                                        gradual sea level rise are excluded by most
                                                        general insurance policies.
                                                      - Council will continue to work with Insurance
                                                        Council of Australia to better understand
                                                        insurance and coastal hazards, information
                                                        needs, and the role of the insurance industry in
                                                        increasing resilience to climate related risks.
Protection of public land
Need to be clearer about what Council will do to      - The CHAP investigates erosion risk for all areas
protect local beaches, dunes, habitats and              potentially affected by beach erosion including
waterways from current hazard issues.                   public and private land.
We don't see in the CHAP how Council proposes to      - There is public owned beach reserve along the
protect the natural assets and the communities          extent of the Eastern Beaches and Council is
along the beachfront.                                   trustee of this State-owned reserve.
There is no privately owned land immediately          - Council works in partnership with community
adjacent to the beach. The CHAP is focussing on         bushcare groups to manage the dunes including
private land and should only focus on the public        weeding, pest controls and revegetation works.
land (dunes and beach). If Council discharged its     - There are a range of management issues for the
duty to protect the reserves, then the private land     open beach areas and dunes that require further
would also be protected.                                policy guidance and this needs to be completed
Council and the State are responsible for damage        as a separate piece of work outside the CHAP
to our lot as they are responsible for the land         process.
between our house and the sea.                        - Hence, Council is preparing a Coastal Foreshores
The option of dune revegetation, augmentation and       Management Plan for Eastern Beaches with
management seems to have been discounted in the         reference to the intent and required actions of the
CHAP as only being feasible until approximately         CHAP and the Bushland Reserve Strategic
2070 for Eastern Beaches for managing erosion           Management Plan. The scope may include:
risks.
                                                       managing encroachments, accesses and works
                                                        in dunes


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