Living in amazing natural spaces means exposure to risks from natural hazards like fires, floods and sea level rise. City of Moreton Bay's role includes preparing for natural disasters and improving the resilience of our community.
Local Resilience Plans
A Local Resilience Plan is a plan to improve a community's ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from natural hazards. These plans will identify actions to reduce the risks from natural hazards to people, properties and community infrastructure.
Planning for changes now will empower residents and property owners to make decisions on how and when they make resilience improvements to their properties in the future.
Consultation now closed
Between 19 November 2024 and 27 January 2025 we asked Beachmere residents how they would like to develop a Local Resilience Plan. We wanted to understand how you feel about natural hazards risks and how we can best work with you on resilience measures in the future. Thank you for sharing your ideas and feedback. The next step will be to use your feedback to design an engagement process to develop a Local Resilience Plan for Beachmere.
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Previous consultation
Previously, we invited Beachmere residents to nominate to be part of a Local Resilience Task Force to help develop your Local Resilience Plan. From your feedback we know Beachmere residents are concerned about the risks from natural hazards, but the task force was not the right approach.
How should we work with the Beachmere community?
What makes it easier or harder for Beachmere residents to share ideas with Council? What kind of consultation tools would you like to use so you can get involved? Do you prefer online or face-to-face? Share your ideas here! Activity closed 5pm on Monday 27 January 2025. You must register and log in to Your Say Moreton Bay to participate in this activity.
12 December, 2024
Aliciajayne says:
Online is more accessible for workers and disabled individuals. Having visuals in public spaces with QR codes.
4 December, 2024
CraigH says:
Lack of proper assessment of impact before project go ahead.
22 November, 2024
Hellandback says:
Online
23 October, 2024
Elle_P says:
Write your idea in the box above to add to the board. You can also upvote or downvote other peoples ideas.
Community survey - NOW CLOSED
Complete our three-minute survey to let us know how you feel about natural hazard risks and resilience measures.
Local Resilience Plan pilot project
The Living Coast Plan identified many actions that can be taken to reduce the impact of natural hazards on the community. However, there is much more that needs to be done in order to improve long-term resilience.
This includes Council improving local infrastructure and residents making changes to homes and properties.
Whilst it is impossible to completely remove the risk posed by natural hazards, a resilient community has the ability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from natural hazard impacts over long periods of time.
A resilient community is socially connected and has infrastructure that can withstand disaster and foster community recovery. They understand, prepare and manage possible impacts from natural hazards to properties and homes.
New or improved infrastructure can help reduce the impacts.
Council is investigating future infrastructure requirements as part of this project. The pilot project will help us progress and finalise these investigations.
We don't have a crystal ball, but the information we have suggests the risks from natural hazards like bushfire, flood, and tidal inundation are only going to get worse in the future.
While there are no guarantees, the earlier both Council and property owners take action, the more likely we are to avoid a situation where these areas become unliveable.
If we work together to improve the resilience of Beachmere, then we will be able to better manage those risks and adapt to living with them.
Without improvements to both infrastructure and private assets, then the local area may become unsafe for homes at some point in the future.
Document Library
Timeline
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Timeline item 1 - complete
Engagement ideas
Gather ideas for the best ways to work with the Beachmere community.
Closed 5pm on Monday 27 January 2025
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Timeline item 2 - active
Create Engagement Plan
Work with community members to agree on the best way to engage Beachmere residents about natural hazard resilience
Expected to start in March 2025, subject to unforeseen delays
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Timeline item 3 - incomplete
Community engagement on Local Resilience Planning
Use the agreed Engagement Plan to involve Beachmere residents in creating a Local Resilience Plan
Expected to start mid-2025, subject to unforeseen delays
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Timeline item 4 - incomplete
Draft Local Resilience Plan
Share draft Local Resilience Plan for community feedback before finalising.
Timing subject to engagement approach used
Resilience toolkit
Links to advice and tools you can use to start improving your home and family's resilience to natural hazards.
This project has received funding support from the Queensland Government.
Moreton Bay City Council (Council) is collecting your personal information for the purpose of informing the Beachmere Resilience Plan pilot project. Council will also use your contact information to update Council’s customer information records and to contact you about the Project and other functions, services and projects of Council. Council may use the information you provide to inform our other functions, services and projects.