Meeting papers

2. About the plan
Scope
The Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves Management Plan covers the the coastal Eastern
Beaches Foreshore Reserves and near–coastal bushland reserves listed below (shown in Figure
1):

   •   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

The plan has strong interlinkages with a range of other programs and projects relating to the
eastern beaches, including;

   •   Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan – Implementation
   •   Coastal Monitoring Plan
   •   Burgess Creek monitoring
   •   Burgess Creek Integrated Catchment Management Plan
   •   Noosa Eastern Beaches Creeks - High Risk Erosion Prioritisation and Planning
   •   Integrated Water Quality Monitoring Program
   •   Bushfire risk management
   •   Shire-wide Encroachments Policy

For more information, please see Section 6: Linked projects and programs, and Appendix One:
Linked projects and programs and Council’s foreshore and coastal creeks webpage for on-going
and updated information.

Purpose
The purpose of the Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves Management Plan (EBFRMP) is to
describe the social and environmental values of the Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves and
identify management issues and actions to maintain and enhance these values in the future. The
plan is to provide overarching guidance for management decisions and actions.

The development and subsequent implementation of the EBFRMP is in response to clear
community desire for nature-based coastal hazards and climate change risk mitigation activities,
demonstrated by public consultation for the Noosa Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan 2021. Many
in the community consider that a nature-based approach will best keep the natural look and feel
and safeguard the natural environment, while mitigating coastal hazard impacts. Building the
health and natural stability of the natural foreshores and vegetated dunes, and maintaining natural
coastal processes of erosion and accretion, are central to this approach.

Reserve Management Plans are prepared by Noosa Council and other local governments for
significant bushland reserves or groups of reserves that typically have a wide range of
environmental, social, cultural and recreational values and management considerations. In the
Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves this framework allows for considered and in-depth
management of these values to help achieve a range of balanced outcomes. In particular, the


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