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.

Previous consultation

We recently 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.

We are committed to working in partnership with the Beachmere community on this project, so we are asking for your ideas to launch a new approach to engagement.

Have your say - closing 5pm on 27 January 2025

Co-designing engagement

Help us find the best ways of working with Beachmere residents to develop a Local Resilience Plan.

Our goal is to make sure everyone can be involved in improving resilience to natural hazards risks in the short-, medium- and long-term.

The first step is understanding what makes it easier or harder for people from Beachmere to get involved. We are asking you to share your ideas on how we can best engage with your community.

The next step will be to work with residents to design an engagement process that works for your community.

Once we have agreed on the best way to work together, we will start consultation to develop your Local Resilience Plan.

You can get involved by adding your ideas to the board below, completing our short three-minute survey, or clicking the '+Follow' button above to subscribe to project updates.

If you would prefer to provide your ideas privately, you can email yoursay@moretonbay.qld.gov.au or write to Community Engagement, City of Moreton Bay, Reply Paid 159, Caboolture Qld 4510 (no stamp required if posting from within Australia).

1 to 2 minute activity

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 closes 5pm on Monday 27 January 2025. You must register and log in to Your Say Moreton Bay to participate in this activity. (max 140 characters).

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.

3 to 4 minute activity

Community survey

Complete our three-minute survey to let us know how you feel about natural hazard risks and resilience measures. Survey closes 5pm on 27 January 2025.

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.

Timeline

  • Timeline item 1 - active

    Engagement ideas

    Gather ideas for the best ways to work with the Beachmere community.

    Closes 5pm on Monday 27 January 2025

  • Timeline item 2 - incomplete

    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

  • 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

  • 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.