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Public feedback is being sought by Auckland Council on how it should best respond to coastal challenges such as flooding, erosion and climate change over the next 100 years.
Specialists are currently developing a series of Shoreline Adaptation Programmes (SAPs) to guide how council should manage its land and assets, such as footpaths, sportsfields and carparks, on beaches, cliffs, harbours and estuaries from Pakiri to Orewa and around the Kaipara Harbour.
Each SAP will look at how land and assets can (or can’t) be adapted in response to coastal hazards and climate change, while promoting the preservation and restoration of the shoreline environment for future generations.
The plans utilise four strategies – ‘no active intervention’, or letting nature take its course; ‘limited intervention’, allowing some maintenance, while accepting that coastal realignment is inevitable; ‘hold the line’, or actively defending assets and land from erosion and flooding; and ‘managed realignment’, where assets, uses and infrastructure are moved away from the coast.
Each SAP is being developed in partnership with mana whenua and with guidance from infrastructure providers, technical experts and coastal communities.
Council wants to hear how people use, and what they value about, local beaches and coastal areas from Pākiri to Mathesons Bay, Ti Point to Sandspit and Snells Beach to Ōrewa on the east coast, and from Kaukapakapa up to Port Albert and Te Hana on the Kaipara.
All feedback will be reviewed and included in a final report that will go to Rodney Local Board for approval later this year.
Submissions can be made until May 31 using online feedback forms (see below for links) or via an online interactive map – https://aucklandcouncil.mysocialpinpoint.com/shorelineadaptationplans/map#/.
Info: https://akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/shoreline-adaptation-plans
https://akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/shoreline-adaptation-plans-kaipara-harbour
