Have Your Say
Sea level rise and severe storms are changing our coastline and coastal communities, but you can help protect what’s important. From Coolum Beach south to Bribie Island, everyone has a role in keeping our beaches, dunes, headlands, estuaries and lagoons healthy.
We invited our community to have their say on a set of coastal management plans that collectively manage our coastal areas. We are taking an integrated approach to engagement and seeking your feedback to help inform these plans and raise awareness around coastal management.
Our actions now will shape the future of our coastline. Together, we can manage our coastline to help protect and preserve it.
The Sunshine Coast has more than 60 kilometres of coastal foreshores. This includes many world-class beaches and iconic rocky headlands. These environments are highly valued by locals and visitors alike for their cultural, ecological and recreational functions.
A healthy coastline:
Council’s Corporate Plan identifies well-managed and maintained foreshores as a priority. We have developed a coastal planning and management framework that delivers policy and planning tools that support protection and sustainable use of our valuable beaches, headlands and estuaries.
We manage most of the local coastline and place great importance on the health of dunes and beaches. The coastline is constantly changing and our coastal planning and management effort has to adapt to the influence of coastal hazards such as erosion.
Our long-term strategies and plans focus on sustainable practices for the resilience of our coastline into the future. These long-term strategies guide our daily on-ground actions, which play a crucial role in maintaining the health of our coastline for everyone to enjoy.
We invited our community to provide feedback on three coastal management plans that are currently being drafted:
The draft Healthy Coast Management Plan (HCMP) is a new plan that sets out all Council’s activities to manage our coastline now and into the coming decades. The plan responds to population growth and climate change impacts by protecting, maintaining, and improving the coast's public environment, built assets and sustainable values.
The draft Shoreline Erosion Management Plan (SEMP) 2025-2035 updates the existing 2014 plan.
For specific locations throughout the next decade, the Shoreline Erosion Management Plan describes processes that influence erosion, identifies Council assets at risk, and outlines Council’s preferred coastal erosion management actions.
Council is also carefully investigating how to better protect important areas through Coastal Hazard Adaptation Precinct Planning (CHAPP).
Through these investigations, we are identifying and assessing potential options for adapting public coastal spaces and infrastructure to make them more resilient to coastal hazards.
Investigation outcomes include identifying short-term interim solutions, with a primary focus on long-term solutions for future planning horizons.
Community consultation was open from Monday 28 October to Monday 25 November.
The community was invited to download the plans for a more in-depth understanding, attend a drop-in session and submit feedback through the online surveys or email. Feedback will help us confirm priorities and what you value about our coastal areas.
Visit the pages below to find out more about the coastal management plans and their associated engagement activities.
Have your say on the draft Healthy Coast Management Plan and the draft Shoreline Erosion Management Plan 2025-2035.
Have your say on current investigations in key coastal areas of Maroochydore, Mooloolaba, Golden Beach and Caloundra (Bulcock Beach) as part of Coastal Hazard Adaptation Precinct Planning.
Want to know more about our coastline, how Council manages it and what you can do to help?
