Wamberal Beach SOS Save our Sand

16/06/2026

14/06/2026

This Tuesday, the WPA and its consultants ADW Johnson want the Regional Planning Panel to provide a further deferral on the seawall DAs - yet another extension.

The seawall DAs have been assessed for over 18 months, with all Assessment Reports recommending REFUSAL.

The WPA had years to sort their DAs out. They still do not have owner consent for many properties. Their proposed wall is Swiss cheese!

The community has had enough. It is over. Time to move on. Do you agree?

The WPA believes the longer they can draw out the DAs, the more they can hold the government out to ransom, saying if you don't give us this, then you have to give us something else. The truth is that NSW Government owes the WPA nothing.

SOS will be making it very clear to the Panel this Tuesday that our community is traumatised by the continuing threat of the seawall. We will insist that refusal needs to be final on Tuesday. We need local peace of mind restored. The beachfront landowners might have stepped up for beach risk, but the wider community did not.

The WPA is over-reaching, wishfully thinking NSW Government will give Council five lots of beachfront land for the lots to be walled, NSW Government, including Premier Minns, refused the seawall DAs and would be loathe to sell out the local community.

Also, ADW Johnson conveniently fails to mention in their submissions that NSW Governement formally OBJECTED to the three WPA seawall DAs. Even Council's assessment report recommends DA refusal. NSW Government and Council are the most significant landowners on the beachfront and they are not on board. We recall Premier Minns told us so.

The WPA might win over some beachfront landowners with wishful thinking and false hopes, but they have not won over all landowners, and the WPA will not win over the Regional Planning Panel with 'maybes' and 'what ifs' based on future government decisions on s.68 and the CMP.

The Panel must reject the DAs,. The proposal before the Panel is unsupportable.

ADW Johnson now cites the possibility of sand nourishment in their submission, but their DA specifically excludes offshore sand nourishment. The WPA seawall is not fit for purpose. It was designed without the consideration of offshore sand nourishment. The world has moved on. The Panel should move on too.

The DA process cannot be misued by the WPA as bargaining chip for other seawall pathways. The horse has run its race. It lost. There is no provision for these failed seawall DAs to leverage or rely upon a s.68 or other hard wall pathways.

Minns said no. The Assessment reports said no. Several beachfront landowners say no. The community says no. The Planning Panel has the support of the community to say "sorry but no" this Tuesday.

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13/06/2026

How should we respectfully celebrate the refusal of the WPA seawall DAs?

11/06/2026

Add your thoughts below. When it comes to looking after our beloved beach and being advised by experts, does SOS or the WPA have your support? https://coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2026/06/mixed-response-to-latest-seawall-development/

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10/06/2026

The Regional Planning Panel has invited everyone who submitted over 3,200 WPA seawall DA objections to attend next Tuesday's 10am online Seawall DA Panel Decision Meeting.

If you lodged a seawall DA objection, you just need to register online by 2pm tomorrow (Thursday) to attend to listen in on Tuesday, or listen and speak. It only takes seconds.

Here is a link to register: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=IYjvljkqHEe4mmewgz3TuZmAseBltqZApvXzb-tQmx5UODBZRDJXNVdQQTYwSktSNEs2SkxBWlkzMCQlQCN0PWcu&origin=QRCode&route=shorturl&fbclid=IwY2xjawSWJI5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHVkM3VlIwYnhiVDN5MnpKc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHng2LwsLeIdTYDtOsagI3nv4qr4Yo9iI3HvuzGtj-P-ukunBSK3MhhmPQTgV_aem_c7UHRWgPVgqFHWQwefj4uQ

Based on documentation before the Panel, we expect the seawall DAs will be declined, so this should be a positive meeting, the culmination of all your persistent efforts over the years to save our beloved beach from Seawall 1.0. SOS hopes to address the Panel.

Register now to attend online next week to see Wamberal Beach history in the making, even if you can only attend part of the session.

07/06/2026

Here we see an engineering firm promoting their ability to cut a public beach in two with a seawall.

This is the Section 68 seawall at Entrance North. Could you imagine this sort of thing at Wamberal?

Some history. The old grey house in the top picture near the single pine tree is called "Pacific". That house lost its front verandah to the sea in the 1940s. The owners of Pacific dumped building waste in front of Pacific to reclaim the front yard.

Decades later, the row of apartments went in, owners knowing the risks.

Last year the apartment owners, assisted by Skaie Hull, lobbied Cr Doug Eaton and the block of eight Councillors who ordered Council to lodge an s.68 seawall application for North Entrance Beach which Minister Saffin approved, a decision that has destroyed a section of the public beach.

Put simply, the private landowners' poor decisions have resulted in the destruction of the public beach, all pushed through by the seawall lobby.

We have cause to be concerned that Minister Saffin could approve a Wamberal s.68 seawall. The only consolation in the picture is that the s.68 wall for North Entrance is that the s.68 wall has to be removed in less than three years at the landowners' expense. But will it be removed?

Enjoy your long weekend. We will follow up later with a campaign to appeal to Minister Saffin.

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05/06/2026

One seawall down, another one (s.68) to go.

See the three 2024 seawall DA assessment reports below.

These are new Council Assessment Reports, entirely aligned with everything you, SOS and the experts have said about the seawall DAs for years. These reports spell the demise of Seawall 1.0. Formal seawall DA cremation by the Regional Planning Panel will be held on 16 June 2026.

To think of all the hundreds of thousands of ratepayer dollars that Council spent supporting the WPA seawall DAs over the years, and in the end Council landed where you and SOS were all along - no seawall.

The reports reveal that proper landowner DA consent was not provided for 14 separate properties. That would have been 14 seawall gaps. There are even cases of consents not even being signed by the actual landowners.

SOS will have a lot more to say about these and other report findings. For now we commend Council and note that these reports are a tribute to all of you, a vindication of experts, SOS and the local community who persevered over many years. Cheers for the long weekend.

We now focus on defeating the new seawall push - the Section 68 push. Seawall whack-a-mole. We must keep at it!

Here are the assessment reports. Enjoyable reading:

Section A
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vwVqXBYuldbMz5voaAEYlWu15nLt1vqo/view?usp=drive_link

Section B
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NRjos1sKavihlU-MOnkTyg1QenUEDHUD/view?usp=drive_link

Section C
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T4TcvFR1u4zIraoWI0xi1QJSIRPRX5uW/view?usp=drive_link

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02/06/2026

Today, an SOS delegation is meeting the Engineers Australia expert community and NSW Government representatives. Please add your questions below. Coast Council

01/06/2026

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