Spit East Reserve Upgrade

The Spit East Reserve is an underutilised public recreation space, and Council has engaged a landscape architect to develop a concept design that aims to:

• Open up the reserve to the general public,
• Improve safety and accessibility and
• Provide stormwater infrastructure.

Currently the reserve has no formal area for boat storage. Various watercraft park along the reserve and hinder public access down to the beach. The concept scheme provides an area for boat storage to the Southern side of the beach, encouraging pedestrian access through to the foreshore and out onto the sandstone sea wall on the Northern side.

The existing sandstone sea wall is deteriorating, and sections have become highly weathered. It is proposed for the sea wall to be repaired and repointed, and a pedestrian path installed to guide people towards the view out to Clontarf. The easternmost section of the wall is proposed to be reduced in height and cordoned off to reduce loads on the wall and improve pedestrian safety.

There is currently no stormwater infrastructure at Spit East Reserve, and during heavy rain events water travels down Parriwi Road and Spit Road into the Reserve and erodes the sand bank on the northern side of the sea wall. To manage stormwater the project has included the installation of a new stormwater pit and pipe, with a rocked and planted swale for any additional overland flow, to help preserve and rejuvenate the sand bank.

We invite you to review the Concept Design Plan and provide feedback by completing the survey below.

Submissions close Thursday 23 April at 5.00PM.