Resilient Cape Strategic Plan

Resilient Cape Strategic Plan – Draft Released for Public Comment 

Our coast line is changing and planning for change is crucial. The Queensland State Government has funded the QCoast₂₁₀₀ program to help local governments build resilience to coastal hazards and for each to prepare a Coastal Hazard Adaptation Strategy (CHAS).

The Resilient Cape Strategic Plan is Cook Shire Council’s CHAS. It is about developing strategies that will put us in a better position to reduce impacts and to vastly improve protection for our coast from a predicted 0.8m increase in sea level rise in 2100.

How Can I Have Input?

 A copy of the Draft Resilient Cape Strategic Plan may be viewed or downloaded here. Alternatively, a copy of the document can be viewed at Council’s office in Cooktown, as well as at the Bloomfield Library.

Areas within the Cook Shire that have been identified as potentially being exposed to coastal hazards in the future are shown in the Phase 3 Report and include homes along the foreshore at Ayton, Port Stewart,  Portland Roads and Quarantine Bay as well as sea wall and foreshore area in Cooktown.             

Feedback Requested by Monday 12 April 2021 

Feedback may be emailed to mail@cook.qld.gov.au or posted to Cook Shire Council, PO Box 3, Cooktown, Qld 4895 and is requested by 12 April 2021.

Contact Us

If you have any questions please contact Council’s Planning Officer via email at mail@cook.qld.gov.au or call Council’s offices on (07) 4082 0500.

More information

The development of the Resilient Cape Strategic Plan is being primarily funded under the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection’s Qcoast2100 Program, which is supporting 31 Queensland local governments to undertake planning. 

More information about the QCoast2100 Program can be found here: www.qcoast2100.com.au