Coastal protection
Comprehensive Coastal Assessment
Comprehensive Coastal Assessment is a key component the NSW Government $11.7 million Coastal Protection Package introduced in 2001 to improve coastal planning and management.
Various CCA products have been developed to support decisions by communities, the property industry, as well as local and State government. The CCA approach has already been used successfully for eastern forest assessments, coastal regional strategies and a pilot study in the Tweed local area.
Comprehensive Coastal Assessment Toolkit
The CCA Toolkit was released in May 2007. Coordinated by the Department of Planning with major contributions from five other state agencies, the CCA Toolkit provides a wealth of information on the environmental social and economic values of the NSW coast outside the greater metropolitan area. It is available as an easy to use double DVD set and contains over 140 new data sets, reports, assessment methodologies and decision support tools.
Some of the data sets on the CCA Toolkit includes:
- detailed aquatic mapping showing the location and extent of mangroves, salt marsh and seagrasses
- economic statistics on employment and income and agriculture value
- coastal population movement and associated statistics
- geology and resource maps
- tourism information, including monthly visitation rates.
The CCA Toolkit supports local councils developing new local environmental plans and long term strategies as part of the recent NSW planning reforms, in line with the NSW Coastal Policy, coastal regional strategies, and other relevant statutory policies, orders and directions. The CCA Toolkit has been provided free-of-charge to all non-metropolitan coastal councils, catchment management authorities and key industry and environmental groups.
Protecting our coast: the comprehensive coastal assessment toolkit (brochure) [PDF]
CCA toolkit: project summaries
CCA toolkit: CCA decision-making framework: a guide for sustainable land use planning [PDF]
To obtain a copy of the CCA toolkit
The CCA Toolkit is available as a double DVD set for $10 from the Department's Information Centre. Phone 02 9228 6333 or email information@planning.nsw.gov.au.