EASTERN BEACHES FORESHORE RESERVES MANAGEMENT PLAN - COMMUNITY CONSULTATION OVERVIEW AND PROPOSED CHANGES (Referred from Planning and Environment Committee dated 8 August 2023 - Item 5.1) · Report

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING                                                        14 AUGUST 2023


Community input and subsequent plan review resulted in the following key improvements:

   •    The scope of the plan has been better described and renamed as the Eastern Beaches
        Foreshore Reserves Management Plan to better reflect the area the plan addresses.
   •    Interaction with other programs and activities in and near the Eastern Beaches Foreshore
        Reserves are better described.
   •    Statements about the reserves’ environmental values and climate change are better
        referenced.
   •    Condition mapping, restoration targets, ecological restoration plans and on ground works are
        better described.
   •    Objectives in each theme section have been better linked to management outcomes in each
        theme. Each action has been allocated a time frame, and a measures table included with
        each theme to help with monitoring progress and success.
   •    Encroachments are now dealt with specifically under a separate Encroachments Policy and
        Procedure which applies to all Council-managed land across the Shire.
   •    The themes have been reordered.
Summary of issues raised and proposed responses
COMMUNITY INPUT                     COUNCIL RESPONSE
Consultation process
Consultation inadequate,            Please see consultation description above.
consultation time too short, not
adequately promoted.
Scope
The scope is flawed and does not The plan has been updated to better describe
focus on or fund priority issues – coastal creek erosion, stormwater and
e.g. stormwater and treated        wastewater projects and funding, and how they
sewage. All actions to do with the interact with the plan and are being acted upon.
Eastern Beaches should be in one
plan.
The environmental values of the Objectives reviewed to include future
foreshore and importance of future generations and environmental values, these are
generation stewardship should be an important focus.
prioritised.
Management objectives, actions, KPIs
Objectives should be linked to      Actions have been linked to objectives, linking
actions, priority actions should be outcomes and a measures table in each theme
identified, and actionable,         section.
measurable, and timely KPIs are
needed.
Climate change
A healthy, biodiverse habitat    Using natural processes and managing the
increases chances of climate     foreshore reserves as natural areas is the
change adaptation. This needs to primary climate change adaptation response
be recognised                    identified in the CHAP. Improving structural and
                                 species diversity has been better described.