Video Above: In Stage 2 we shot a short video featuring Anglesea locals telling us what they love about our iconic coast.
Developing a Coastal Adaptation Plan for Anglesea
From Point Roadknight to Demon's Bluff, we can see how waves, storms, and rising sea levels are shaping Anglesea’s coastline.
These natural forces also bring hazards like erosion, cliff failure, and flooding, which can impact the way we access and enjoy the coast. This requires us to start planning for the future and consider how to manage both short and long-term impacts. The frequency and magnitude of these hazards are expected to rise with climate change.
We're developing an Anglesea Coastal Adaptation Plan (CAP) in partnership with locals, visitors, community groups and key stakeholders to enhance the resilience of the Anglesea coast. This plan aims to better understand and plan for short and long-term erosion, storm tide inundation, estuary dynamics, and cliff failure.
Your insights and feedback will help shape future decision making and plans for coastal hazard management and resilience.
We are currently at Stage 3 - Coastal Hazard Exposure
We are currently working to assess coastal hazard exposure for the Anglesea Coast to enable best practice approaches to risk assessment and adaptation planning.
The Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority are taking a partnership approach to plan for and manage coastal hazards along our beloved coastline, now and into the future.
Our approach is following the direction of the Marine and Coastal Policy 2020 and Victoria’s Resilient Coast – Adapting for 2100+ framework and guidelines.
Currently we are at Stage 2 of the planning process and will be working to progress through the subsequent stages, up to stage 5 over the next 18 months.
The purpose of this stage is to ensure coastal hazard risk management and adaptation planning is underpinned by place-based values and a shared vision and objectives.
We are committed to genuinely partner and meaningfully build relationships with the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, through this project, to support the protection of Country, and the continuation of spiritual and cultural practices.
We also value the longstanding dialogue with the Anglesea community in relation to Anglesea Futures, the Great Ocean Road Communities Network (GORCN) and the Anglesea Community Network.
The community has actively participated in these conversations and put forward great ideas for shaping the future of Anglesea as well as highlighting the values of the coast and future impacts from coastal hazards.
Through this study we aim to build on this conversation to better understand what the Anglesea and visitor community value about the coast to ensure that our management decisions best reflect community sentiment.
In addition to State Government legislation, policy and guidelines, there is a good body of knowledge from previous studies and reports, focused on this unique stretch of coastline, which have been collated and will help inform this project.
If there are studies, bodies of work you or key stakeholder groups you believe should inform this project please email haveyoursay@greatoceanroadauthority.vic.gov.au Attention to Rob Armstrong & Andy Bell and include Anglesea Coastal Adaptation Plan in the subject line.
Work on Stage 1 was completed earlier this year and provides a foundation for commencing/progressing coastal hazard risk management and adaptation planning, aligned to best practice guidance, for the Anglesea coast.
A key deliverable for Stage 1 was the Project Plan for Anglesea Coast Adaptation Planning. The plan is supported by all project partners and outlines the following:
• the need for action – refined through the collaborative work of the scoping stage
• the project study area
• the project governance model
• the proposed collaborative process for the project, including a Communication and Engagement Plan
• the scope the work required for each Stage
• supporting documentation (e.g. MoU arrangements, funding agreements, other).
At Stage 2 we seek to gather local knowledge and values (along with cultural, economic and environmental values) to ensure costal hazard risk management and adaptation planning is underpinned by place-based values and a shared vision and objectives for the Anglesea coast.
The Anglesea Coastal Adaptation Plan - Stage Two Engagement Summary Report - As we approach the end of Stage 2, and prepare for Stage 3, we have produced a Stage Two Engagement Summary Report that captures what we have heard so far.
This report, along with the complete data set from our Stage 2 engagement, will help shape our adaptation planning, making sure it reflects local values and knowledge.
The vision for the Anglesea Coastal Adaptation Plan is:
"A healthy and resilient Anglesea coast, ready adapt to coastal changes, so it can be accessed and enjoyed by current and future generations."
Our objectives are:
Project Overview and Update
Hear from Rob Armstrong, Project Manager, on our approach and progress of the Anglesea Coastal Adaptation Planning project as of November 2024, as recorded on our recent Coastal Adaptation Planning Webinar.
Summary Reports by Stage
As we complete each stage of this project we will produce and share a project summary report. Click the button below to view our current reports.
Thanks to everyone who engaged with us at Stage 2. We look forward to keeping you updated and engaged in the project as it progresses. Below you can read and download our Engagement Summary Report and provide your feedback on this report.
