The City of Port Lincoln invites community feedback on its draft Marine Infrastructure and Facilities Strategy, which provides a roadmap for the future management, maintenance, renewal, and upgrading of the city's coastal and marine assets. Feedback is open from Thursday, 24 April to Monday, 19 May 2025.
The draft Marine Infrastructure and Facilities Strategy is essential for preserving the infrastructure that supports the city’s lifestyle and economic vitality. The Council manages key coastal assets, such as boat ramps, jetties, breakwaters, and seawalls, spanning 21 kilometres of coastline.
These coastal and marine facilities are highly valued by residents and visitors, supporting commercial fishing and aquaculture, recreational boating, fishing and camping, swimming, beach activities, and the overall wellbeing of our community.
The draft Marine Infrastructure and Facilities Strategy includes an annual action plan, with indicative costings for priority projects where projections are available.
This action plan will guide the implementation of key actions and ensure continued progress in managing and enhancing Port Lincoln’s coastal and marine infrastructure.
The draft Marine Infrastructure and Facilities Strategy identifies key strategic issues and outlines priority actions to address them. A new Coastal and Marine Facilities Asset Management Plan will be developed to confirm service levels, inspection regimes and maintenance schedules, ensuring assets are maintained in a financially sustainable way, and integrated into Council’s long-term financial planning.
With an improved focus on maintaining and renewing valued coastal and marine assets, the Strategy identifies opportunities to enhance revenue through user charges and strengthen long-term asset renewal planning.
Improving beach quality is another key focus of the Strategy, with proposed actions including investigatingsand replenishment, reduning and revegetation on the eastern side of the foreshore, and formalising beach access and camping at Murray Point Reserve. Stormwater management is also addressed in the Strategy, acknowledging that runoff from across Port Lincoln flows into the ocean and needs to be managed to help protect our coastal environment.
Council also recognises the risks that climate change poses to infrastructure, local businesses and the community. A proposed Coastal Hazard Adaptation Plan aims to improve understanding of local coastal processes and better inform future planning and decision-making around our coastal assets.
The Draft Marine Infrastructure and Facilities Strategy 2025-2035 is available to review in the Key Documents section on the right. Hardcopies are also available at the Council Office and Port Lincoln Library.
Future details on how to provide feedback can be found below.
