We are extremely fortunate on the Northern Beaches to have a natural environment that features rare flora and fauna, coastal beaches, headlands, harbours, lagoons, waterways and extensive bushland.
Our incredible coastline is increasingly under pressure from climate change, development and population growth. It’s important we effectively plan and adapt, actively managing our coastal areas now and into the future.
One way we achieve this is through the development of Coastal Management Programs (CMPs) which identify coastal management issues and provide actions, timeframes, costs and funding mechanisms required to address them.
We've prepared a Scoping Study as the first stage of the program - we invite you to review the report and share your feedback.
A CMP is a plan of action for Council, public authorities, and land managers responsible for management of the coastal zone to:
There are 5 stages in preparing and implementing a CMP, and it can take up to 5 years to have a certified program that has been thoroughly researched, developed and consulted on.
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We're currently in Stage 1: Identify the scope of a CMP, often called a Scoping Study.
The study area covers about 38 km of coastline from North Head in Manly to Barrenjoey Headland in Palm Beach. It includes 20 beaches and 4 coastal lagoons (Manly, Curl Curl, Dee Why, and Narrabeen). Beaches are embayed by prominent headlands and rocky reefs, stunning scenery and exceptional habitat.
These beaches are often exposed to energetic ocean swells, which can create ideal conditions for recreation, but also pose risks to coastal structures and coastal activities.
Open Coast and Lagoons Coastal Management Program - Scoping Study
A summary of the key information in the Scoping Study
Supporting documents, e.g. maps, audits and workshop summaries
Tell us your thoughts on the Scoping Study by using the online comment form below.
Comments close Sunday 14 December 2025, 11.59pm.
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| Name | Coast & Catchments Team |
|---|---|
| Phone | 1300 434 434 (during business hours) or 131 450 (for translation services) |
| council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au | |
| In writing | marked 'Open Coast & Lagoons Coastal Management Program', Northern Beaches Council, PO Box 82, Manly NSW 1655. |
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གལ་སྲིད་ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་རང་གི་སྐད་ཡིག་གི་ནང་དུ་ཁ་པར་ཐོག་མི་ཞིག་ལ་སྐད་ཆ་བཤད་འདོད་ཡོད་ན། ཡིག་སྒྱུར་དང་སྐད་སྒྱུར་ཞབས་ཞུ་
(Translation and Interpreting Service, TIS) ནས་རིན་པ་སྤྲོད་མི་དགོས་པའི་སྐད་སྒྱུར་ཞབས་ཞུ་ཞིག་ཐོབ་ཆེད་ཨང་གྲངས་ 131 450
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Si desea hablar con alguien por teléfono en su idioma, llame al Servicio de Traducción e Interpretación (Translation and Interpreting Service, TIS) en el 131 450 para recibir un servicio gratuito de interpretación.
तपाईंलाई पृष्ठपोषण प्रदान गर्न सहायता चाहिएमा वा आफ्नो भाषामा वा अर्को ढाँचामा जानकारी प्राप्त गर्न चाहेमा, कृपया काउन्सिललाई 1300 434 434 वा council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au मा सम्पर्क गर्नुहोस्
तपाईं फोनमा कुनै व्यक्तिसँग आफ्नो भाषामा कुरा गर्न चाहनुहुन्छ भने, निःशुल्क दोभाषे सेवाका लागि अनुवादन तथा दोभाषे सेवा (Translation and Interpreting Service, TIS) लाई 131 450 मा कल गर्नुहोस्।
यदि आपको फीडबैक प्रदान करने में सहायता की आवश्यकता है या आप अपनी भाषा या किसी अन्य प्रारूप में जानकारी चाहते हैं, तो कृपया परिषद् से 1300 434 434 या council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au पर ईमेल के माध्यम से संपर्क करें।
यदि आप अपनी भाषा में किसी से फोन पर बात करना चाहते हैं, तो निःशुल्क दुभाषिया सेवा के लिए अनुवाद और दुभाषिया सेवा (टीआईएस) (Translation and Interpreting Service (TIS)) को 131 450 पर कॉल करें।
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