Our Living Coast Strategy opens for community consultation

After years of detailed planning, research, and workshopping, Council is proud to announce the draft release of its Livingstone Coastal Hazards Adaptation Strategy project, entitled Our Living Coast.

Aimed at planning for the long-term functionality and protection of our coastal assets, the draft strategy is open to community feedback from today until 23 December 2020.

The development of the strategy has been funded through the Queensland Government’s QCoast2100 programme.

Portfolio holder of Planning and Strategic Infrastructure, Councillor Nigel Hutton, said Council has already completed background planning and scoping as well as coastal hazard assessments and priority asset identification, risk assessments of key coastal assets, identification of adaptation options for high-risk assets, and a socio-economic analysis of these options. 

Council has reached Phase 8 of the Coastal Hazards Adaptation Strategy project, which is focussed on developing the strategy document with input from the community.

“Stakeholder and community input has been vitally important to the success of this project and has assisted in shaping and influencing the outcomes of the CHAS, particularly community values and preferred adaptation options,” Cr Hutton said. 

“As a Reef Guardian Council, Livingstone Shire is extremely proud to provide this document to the community and welcomes any feedback about its recommendations around how we all have a role to play in protecting our community, environment, cultural values, and coastal assets now and into the future.

“The Our Living Coast strategy will provide Council and the community high quality information that will enable well-considered, timely and effective decisions about how to respond to coastal hazard risks and in the process enable a more resilient community.

“Following the community consultation period, Council will consider any feedback provided and incorporate this into the strategy where relevant. The strategy will then go back to Council for formal approval in early 2021.”

For more information on the Our Living Coast draft strategy and to participate in the community consultation process, please visit https://getinvolved.livingstone.qld.gov.au/