Coffs Harbour Jetty Foreshores Plan of Management - Land - NSW ...

Unauthorised Occupation and Camping
Objective
To ensure public areas are
utilised for purposes
consistent with the PoM
and Operational Plan
Strategy
• Review policy in respect of unauthorised overnight stays eg recreational vehicles
and camping
• Implement compliance activities to enforce policy
• Issue licenses and permits as appropriate
• Regulation and prevention under Local Government Act 1993 and the Crown
Lands Act 1989
Fire Management
Objective
To minimise fire hazard to
private property and
appropriately manage
bush land areas
Coastal Erosion
Objective
To manage coastal erosion
and storm damage while
allowing for natural coastal
process
Seaweed Management
Objective
To maintain the role of
seaweed in the marine
ecology while providing
for the recreational amenity
of high use beaches
Strategy
• Provide and maintain adequate fire control access
• Provide and maintain fuel free and fuel reduced zones where necessary. Minimise
disturbance to natural vegetation
• Exclude fuel reduction burning except in special circumstances (eg flora
management)
• Prepare a specific plan for the use of fire for flora management
• Maintain a record of fire history
Strategy
• Protect and maintain dunal vegetation
• Adapt beach access construction to accommodate storm erosion where possible
• Close access and repair damage as necessary after storm events
Strategy
• Leave seaweed to normal tidal movements where ever possible
• Relocate seaweed away from high use beaches as follows:
- Removed only from main use or patrolled areas of Jetty Beach and southern
section Park Beach
- move seaweed from beach to base of dunal system
- in exceptional circumstances, where seaweed quantities are too large to dispose
on site, stockpile seaweed for removal by contractor licenced by NSW Fisheries
- Notify Marine Park Authority (for areas within Marine Park) and NSW Fisheries
(for other areas) 24 hours prior, or as soon as practicable, to moving seaweed
from intertidal areas.
• All works in intertidal zone carried out under letter of authority from NSW
Fisheries.
Heritage
Objective
To protect and enhance
Aboriginal cultural values
To protect and enhance
European values and
heritage sites
Strategy
• Protect significant sites when developing walking tracks and other facilities,
• Ensure access to significant sites for Aboriginal use
• Facilitate appropriate interpretation of significant sites (eg. signs, guided tours,
educational material)
• Implement strategies through ongoing consultation with Aboriginal groups and
Council’s Aboriginal Consultative Committee and the National Parks and Wildlife
Service
• Contribute to management of fergusons Cottage and implementation of any
adopted heritage maintenance strategy for the site.
• Consultation with stakeholders
• Protect sites of heritage significance
- Historic Jetty
- Maritime infrastructure
• Provide appropriate interpretation of significant sites (eg. signs, guided tours,
educational material)
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