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

2. Introduction
Noosa’s Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves
The Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves (EBFRs) are a series of naturally vegetated Council
managed coastal foreshore reserves and near–coastal bushland reserves that stretch over 11.5
kilometres, covering approximately 122 hectares along the open ocean beaches from Sunshine
Beach to Peregian Beach.

Foreshore and Bushland Reserves covered by the Plan include:

      Burgess Creek Bushland Reserve
      Castaways Beach Foreshore Reserve
      Marcus Beach Foreshore Reserve
      Peregian Beach Foreshore Reserve North (including Osprey Park)
      Peregian Beach Foreshore Reserve South
      Peregian Creek Reserve
      Sunrise Beach Foreshore Reserve
      Sunshine Beach Foreshore Reserve


Community and environmental values
The community value of the EBFRs includes iconic coastal landscapes and views and a leafy
backdrop to Noosa’s coastal neighbourhoods. Forty-one public beach accesses through the
Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves provide access to Noosa’s beaches, where visitors and
residents surf, fish, swim, walk, and exercise their pets, among a plethora of other informal and
formal activities. The EBFRs provides pedestrian access into coastal sections of the Noosa
National Park and parts of the north-south coastal path run in or along the western edge.

Environmentally, native vegetation and coastal landforms in the EBFRs provide natural buffering
from storms, waves and winds. This buffering function is important for building resilience to climate
change risks including coastal erosion, storm tide inundation and sea level rise. Several coastal
vegetation communities including coastal casuarina forest, wetlands, and open banksia and
eucalyptus forest grow, providing habitat for significant plant and animal species, such as green
turtle.

The EBFRs act as north-south wildlife corridors to larger coastal bushland patches in Noosa
National Park. While restricted by development and David Low Way, coastal creeks act as east-
west wildlife corridors from the foreshore to larger bushland patches west of David Low Way.

The following provides a snapshot of the values and management considerations for each of the
key sections of foreshore reserves from Sunshine to Peregian beaches.




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