Living in amazing natural spaces means exposure to risks from natural hazards like fires and floods. Council's role includes preparing for natural disasters and improving the resilience of our community.

This project will identify resilience options for community and property owners to adapt to natural disaster risks over time. It will include recommended property solutions for property owners to respond to those risks. It’s called a “pilot project” because Council hasn’t done a plan like this before and we will be learning how best to do it through the process of doing it.

Local Resilience Plans

A Local Resilience Plan is an area-specific plan to improve community resilience to natural hazards such as flooding and sea level rises.

Council’s Living Coast Plan (2023) identified actions to address the risks from coastal hazards to our city. Planning for changes now will empower residents and property owners to make decisions on how and when they make improvements to their properties in the future.

Get involved

Check out what we heard in the Community Survey from Dohles Rocks Village residents and in the first Local Resilience Task Force workshop.

Moreton Bay City Council (Council) is collecting your personal information for the purpose of informing the Dohles Rocks 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.

Local Resilience Plan pilot project

This information was also shared at the community meeting on 12 September 2023.

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.

Recommended actions will include simple, low-cost actions - like clearing roof gutters, removing tree branches close to your home and preparing an emergency kit.

The Local Resilience Plans will also include longer term actions for property owners to plan ahead, such as using water resistant materials where possible.

There are a number of actions that Council or the State Government can take to reduce the impact of natural hazards on the community - but it's not enough.

To achieve long-term resilience we may need to improve local infrastructure as well as making changes to homes and properties. By working together, we can protect the assets and lifestyle of Dohles Rocks Village for decades to come.

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 that 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 Dohles Rocks Village, then we will be able to continue to 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

This is a pilot project, so timeframes are flexible. We will keep updating this timeline as we go.

  • Timeline item 1 - complete

    Initial community meeting

    12 September 2023 at Dohles Rocks Foreshore Park.

    Introduction to the project and feedback on how the community wants to be involved.

  • Timeline item 2 - complete

    Community Survey and Task Force registrations

    May to July 2024

  • Timeline item 3 - active

    Draft Local Resilience Plan development

    Mid 2024 to early 2025

  • Timeline item 4 - incomplete

    Draft Resilience Plan shared for feedback

    Early 2025

  • Timeline item 5 - incomplete

    Implement Resilience Plan in partnership with community

    Starting mid 2025. Ongoing for several years.

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.