Council signals new approach to managing foreshore

Parts of the Snells Beach foreshore will be returned a more natural alignment as part of council’s changed approach to coastal management.

A new approach to the provision of infrastructure along Auckland’s foreshore will see a move away from building hard coastal defence structures such as the one washed away at Snells Beach earlier this year. The beach access stairs opposite Sunburst Avenue, along with a 115m long section of timber seawall, were extensively damaged during Cyclone Gabrielle. Fill was washed out from behind the wall and sections of the concrete footpath were undermined and col...