2022-11-14 GC Agenda - Item 3 - Attachment 1 - Draft Eastern Beaches Foreshore Management Plan

10. Community education
Noosa’s EBFRs, beaches and adjacent waters have thousands of visitors each day, hundreds of
boundary sharing neighbours and thousands of nearby neighbours across the localities. How these
visitors and neighbours treat the foreshore reserves they live near or visit directly affects how the
reserves look and function. On-going community education and targeted communication between
Council, visitors and neighbours will contribute to the protection and enhancement of EBFRs. This
also includes embedding clear objectives for best practice reserve management into Council’s day
to day practices and approaches.


Neighbour communication
Neighbours include boundary sharing neighbours and neighbours within walking distance – where
the reserve is part of their work or home neighbourhood. Like all urban bushland reserves, how
neighbours interact with Noosa’s foreshore reserves is crucial to achieving positive long term social
and environmental outcomes.

Council’s initial consultation indicated that some areas may only contain roughly 20% long-term
rental or owner residents, with the remainder being short term lets or holiday homes. Unaddressed
delivery or local notices and advertisements are unlikely to reach non-residential neighbours. In
many cases the people who most interact with the public land neighbouring these properties work
for private rental managers, including landscaping and maintenance companies. Targeted
communication that includes hard to reach neighbours is important. Planned communication topics
include being a ‘good bushland neighbour’ and the ‘values of dunes and foreshores’.


Visitor communication
Noosa’s Eastern Beaches have very high numbers of visitors, and how these visitors treat the
reserve also influences how it functions and looks. Communicating with local visitors, (many who
may visit several times a week), visitors from the broader Sunshine Coast, and from further afield
require different delivery avenues and perhaps different materials. Delivery should be a mix of on-
reserve, online and external engagement and content.


Reserve and general community information
Information about the values of naturally vegetated foreshores and the EBFRs may help the
general community further appreciate the importance of natural foreshores for recreation,
conserving urban biodiversity and for helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change.




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