Project overview

We understand that our beaches and our coastal lifestyle are one of our greatest assets and are highly valued by our community.

We have approximately 60km of coastline, from the Royal National Park in the north to Lake Illawarra in the south. The character and functionality of Wollongong’s coastline is a blend of beaches, dunes, cliffs, headlands and rock platforms, and small coastal creeks and estuaries, and plays an integral part in the experience of the city for our residents and visitors to the Wollongong Local Government Area (LGA).

To ensure we can protect, enhance and effectively manage our coast and coastal assets, Council is preparing a Coastal Management Program (CMP), and you're invited to participate at key stages of the project.

Ultimately, the Wollongong CMP will identify coastal management issues and the actions required to address these issues in a strategic and integrated way.

Lake Illawarra is not part of this CMP for the coastal zone of the Wollongong LGA. Council has already developed a CMP for Lake Illawarra in partnership with Shellharbour City Council and the NSW Government.

The CMP project is supported with funding from the NSW Government’s Coastal and Estuary Management Program.

Stages of the Coastal Management Program

The preparation of the Wollongong Coastal Management Program involves five stages.

• Stage 1: Identify the scope of the CMP
• Stage 2: Determine risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities
• Stage 3: Identify and evaluate options
• Stage 4: Prepare, exhibit, finalise, certify, and adopt the CMP
• Stage 5: Implement, monitor, evaluate and report

Further Information

You can learn more about the CMP by viewing the FAQs and project updates in the News Feed below, or by contacting the project team.

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Join the conversation

We invite you to join the conversation to help us identify the scope of the CMP and to better understand what you love and value about our coastline and estuaries. This CMP does not include Lake Illawarra.

The survey closed on 7 July 2022.