18/11/2023
The Beach Matters Group and Rach Bermingham have pulled it off! 🥳
In years to come, make sure you educate your children as to the influence a community can have when they collaborate effectively and communicate with intention. Enjoy Mooloolaba Beach while you’re at it 🏄♀️🌊🏖️
BIG NEWS!
We met with Council and the peer reviewer on the Mooloolaba Seawall project, and are THRILLED to let you know they have amended the design of the seawall! THE BEACH IS SAFE! 🎉
No longer will there be concrete stairs spilling out all over our beautiful beach!🩵
The toe of the stairs will be moved right back to where the current location of the wall is now. The wall itself is curvy, so in a few areas it will come out a little bit further than it currently is, but in other areas it will be back further than it is now.
It is still in a tier, stepped-down design so it can double as seating with ramp access in places, but the best news is, we have our sandy beach back! 🐠
Council are expected to update their information page today about it, and you will see a side preview of the seawall which on the image they showed us during the meeting it no longer has the inclination it did and no longer stretches to the high or king tide line, it’s way back where it is now. Yay! 🥳
We’re over the moon Council took in our feedback on this. We’ve had so many meetings, emails flying back and forward etc on this for the past couple of months it’s not funny. It’s been a LOT of immense hours to prove our case. BIG BIG thanks to the Alliance group for supporting us in this fight and working hard to get this amendment. Special thanks to the Beach Matters Group, Mooloolaba Chamber of Commerce, the Alliance Group members, and these people in particular Quentin, Geoff, Jacqui, Graeme, Fraser, Robbie, Edwin, Peter Bradford, our people in environment & high places who will remain anonymous for obvious reasons, Fiona Simpson for highlighting this on her pages and in Parliament, Joe Natoli for conveying the issues in Council, Christian Dickson and David Law who took the time to meet with me, and everyone who wrote to council or their councillor - it made a difference, a BIG one and we greatly appreciate you helping to SAVE THE BEACH! 🩵🩵
More details will come out as Council have them, but for now, we are beyond excited that the beach is safe! Thank you for listening Council. 👏🏻Graeme & the Mooloolaba Chamber of Commerce will liaise with Council on business, accessibility & parking details. The Beach Matters will stay engaged along with the Mooloolaba Surf Club regarding beach access & beach safety. Construction stages will be notified soon so we know when it starts, how long construction will be, if it’s to be done in one stage or several, how people will still access the beach and businesses during construction, details on beach safety for users, where parking will be and more. We’ll keep you up to date on all of these things when Council let us know of them, for now all we know is it is due to start end of April next year and we have saved our beautiful beach!!!🙌🏻🩵🙌🏻
🩵Rach
