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Windy Harbour Adaptation Options Survey

Introduction

The purpose of this Adaptation Options Survey is to gain an understanding of what you, as a community stakeholer, think is important about the coast and which elements of coastal planning and management should be prioritised. This survey is part of the Windy Harbour Coastal Risk Management and Adaptation Plan (CHRMAP) project to address the risks of coastal erosion hazard both now and over the next 100 years.
 
The project aims to:
  • Investigate and provide the blueprint for adapting and addressing coastal erosion hazards which are likely to affect the Shire site. The investigation will provide guidance for coordinated, integrated and sustainable decision making by the Shire in terms of future coastal planning and management.
  • To preserve community values for present and future generations.
  • To develop a plan that will allow the Shire to respond to identified risks through adaptation planning activities.
  • To recommend monitoring plans to ensure risk management and adaptation plan activities are working into the future as expected.

This survey will take 8 minutes to complete.  
The four figures below depict the coastal erosion risk to the study area at various timeframes from the present day to 2122 and depict the assets that are vulnerable to coastal erosion in the hazard zone.
1. How would you describe your connection to Windy Harbour
2. What is your age?
3. Please provide the postcode of your primary residence
4. Which section of foreshore is more important to you?
Please select one
When developing an adaptation plan the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) requires that planners follow the Adaptation Hierarchy:
This hierarchy shows, for example, that it is preferred to move assets away from coastal hazard zones rather than protect them. The WAPC’s planning policy and guidelines also state that the user pays principle should be adopted. This principle simply states that those who benefit most from coastal adaptation works should contribute the most towards the project. It should also be noticed that the State and Local Government are not legally obliged to protect private assets or fund coastal adaptation works or strategies. These core points: the adaptation hierarchy, the user pays principle, and the Government’s obligations, are key aspects for the community to consider when thinking about coastal planning and adaptation.

Please use the awareness of the above, to answer the remaining questions.

5. Preserve dunes, revegetate foreshore reserves in order to lower the risk of coastal erosion
6. Individual asset owners should be allowed to protect their property where they have demonstrated there will be no impact on the adjoining coast or other assets
7. People who benefit from coastal protection works should pay for their construction and maintenance
8. Protect private assets from erosion, even if this results in the loss of public foreshore reserve and loss of accessible and usable sandy beach
9. Allow the continuation of approved land uses in developed areas until erosion makes these uses impossible to continue
10. Retain public access to beaches and foreshore reserves and preserve coastal dunes and vegetation for future generations
11. Relocate structures away from the coast and let natural processes take their course
12. Do not allow more intensive development (such as expansions to dwelling) in hazard zone
13. People should be informed about the risk of erosion when they buy or develop in hazard zone
14. Do you think we should progressively move assets out of hazard zones and then let natural processes take their course, e.g. let shorelines retreat as predicted?
15. Do you think we should build coastal protection structures like seawalls, beach groynes, artificial headlands or offshore breakwaters to stop land being eroded?
16. How much extra would you be willing to pay each year to maintain the current amount of sandy beach along the shoreline?
17. How much extra would you be willing to pay each year to maintain the current amount of natural foreshore reserve (vegetated dune) along the shoreline?
18. How much extra would you be willing to pay each year to implement coastal protection along the shoreline? (e.g. construct more rock revetment/seawall structures along areas with assets at risk)
19. How much extra would you be willing to pay each year to build sacrificial sections on beach staircases?
20. For the previous few questions, please select an answer that best sums up your choices
21. Do you think that people who benefit more from a coastal protection structure such as seawall should pay more than other people?
22. If it is decided to build coastal protection structures like seawalls, beach groynes, artificial headlands or offshore breakwaters to stop land being eroded, who do you think should pay for the works?
23. If a structure must be removed, who do you think should pay for the loss or relocation of the structure?
24. For the section of coast of MU 1 - Cathedral to Lookout Staircase what is your preference for the coast over the next 20 years? (select all that apply)
25. For the section of coast of MU 2 – Lookout Staircase to Boat Ramp what is your preference for the coast over the next 20 years? (select all that apply)
26. For the section of the coast of MU 3 - Boat Ramp to Fisherman's Place what is your preference for the coast over the next 20 years? (select all that apply)
27. For the section of coast of MU 4 – Fisherman’s Place to WH Limit what is your preference for the coast over the next 20 years? (select all that apply)
28. Do you have any general comments about the future of the foreshore?
We thank you for your participation.