Save Smiths Beach

25/06/2026

Environmental Appeals Process Update

Thanks for the huge response to the Appeals process through the office of the Appeals Convenor. We have had a lot of questions and enquiries so here is some information.

❓WHO IS THE APPEALS CONVENOR?

The Appeals Convenor is independent of the EPA and acts as an independent reviewer of environmental appeals. Their role is to consider concerns raised by the community and other stakeholders, investigate whether those concerns have merit, and provide independent recommendations to the Minister before a final decision is made.

❓WHO GETS A MEETING WITH THE APPEALS CONVENOR?

Only those who submitted an appeal to the EPA recommendation back in February 2026 are eligible for a meeting. The Appeals Convenor invites appellants to meet via the email address used in the appeal.

It has been requested that people do not initiate contact the Appeals Convenor but wait for direct communication.

❓CAN THE APPEALS CONVENOR CHANGE OR STOP A DEVELOPMENT?

No. The Appeals Convenor cannot personally approve or stop a proposal. Their role is to independently review appeals and provide recommendations to the Minister, who makes the final decision.

❓DOES THE APPEALS CONVENOR DEAL WITH PLANNING DECISIONS AS WELL

No. The Appeals Convenor does not determine planning matters. Their role is to consider environmental issues and whether the EPA has properly assessed the environmental impacts of a proposal. Planning issues are only relevant to the extent that they affect environmental outcomes, such as landscape, vegetation, bushfire risk, water quality or coastal processes.

23/06/2026

EPA Appeals Process Update

As many of you will have seen, the Office of the Appeals Convenor has now commenced investigating the EPA appeals relating to Smiths Beach. Anyone who put in a submission has been sent an email and now has the opportunity to request a meeting with the Appeals Officers on a number of dates in July. Meetings will be held in both Perth and Yallingup.

The cut-off to book one of these meetings is close of business on Friday 26 June.

MAKE SURE YOU SECURE YOUR SPOT!

Appeals that are followed up with a face to face meeting demonstrate the importance of this issue, highlighting that many community members who submitted appeals are willing to back these up, remaining engaged and taking time out of their busy lives to have their say.

This is one of the few remaining opportunities for members of our community to directly discuss their concerns. If you lodged an appeal and are willing to meet with the officers, please consider taking up the opportunity - the EPA appeals process once again had an incredible number of submissions, it’s time to back that up!

IF YOU DID NOT RECEIVE AN INVITATION?

If you didn’t receive an invitation that’s because you didn’t submit an appeal to the EPA.

WE WILL HELP YOU

The Smiths Beach Action Group is putting together an information brief of the main concerns that formed our Appeal to the EPA. Our submission is based on the years of feedback and public concerns as well as the procedural failures that we believe have occurred.

In the coming week we will issue this out to the public, so that it can be used as part of your knowledge base and in developing the arguments you wish to express to the Convenor in the face to face meeting.

06/03/2026

The fight for Smiths Beach is ON❗️

🔻 The EPA appeal process has now formally commenced, giving the community a genuine opportunity to have the serious environmental concerns around this proposal properly examined.

🔻At the same time, the WA Parliamentary Upper House Select Committee continues its investigation into the planning pathway used at Smiths Beach and the conduct of the State Development Assessment Unit.

🔻Alongside this, legal actions are now underway to ensure transparency and hold this government accountable for how this project has been handled.

🔻All of this means one thing:

🔻Smiths Beach is not going quietly.

❗️Thanks to the incredible support from the community, the issues surrounding this development are now being examined on multiple fronts.

❗️Thank you to everyone standing up and making your voices heard!

04/03/2026

FINAL 24 HOURS

👏🏼 A huge thank you to everyone who has supported the Save Smiths Beach EPA Appeal Fund so far. The response from the community has been incredible.

✊🏼 This appeal is about making sure the serious environmental concerns around visual impact, land clearing and wastewater are properly examined.

👊🏻 The more support we receive, the stronger our position becomes — not just for this appeal, but for protecting Smiths Beach into the future.

🤜🏼 If you’ve been thinking about contributing, the next 24 hours are critical.

🤙🏼 If you believe Smiths Beach deserves proper environmental scrutiny, please consider contributing today.

❗️Donate if you can.

❗️Share if you can’t.

❗️Every bit helps.

❗️Let’s finish this together.

https://gofund.me/ee85e3fe6

27/02/2026

A Simple l, Powerful Message

One of our wonderful volunteers Kelly made this video on her regular walk along the western headland which is under threat by the developer at Smiths.

The headland and the wilderness experience of the cape to cape track is under threat from three storey hotel development on the unique exposed headland.

You can help save the headland by giving to our Save Smiths Fighting Fund at the GoFundMe link below and also in our bio.

The current EPA appeals process is the last chance to Save Smiths.

If you can, please donate.

Thanks for the amazing and ongoing community support!

https://gofund.me/120352164

26/02/2026

WHAT A COMMUNITY

In the last 48hours $8,000 has been raised to help fight to Save Smiths Beach.

Keep it up and get YOUR donation in TODAY.

We are aiming to raise at least $10,000 in 10 days.

The funds go directly to the legal cost for the appeal against the recent EPA recommendation.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-smiths-beach-again-fight-campaign

Cheers to everyone and to our wonderful community.

Smith’s can’t thank you all enough.

24/02/2026

Smiths Beach needs your help — right now.

We have just 10 days to raise $10,000 to fund a formal appeal against the EPA’s decision on the Smiths Beach development.

If you care about transparency, environmental protection, and accountable decision-making in WA.

Please contribute.

Link in below and in our bio.

Share this video.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-smiths-beach-again-fight-campaign/donate?modal=donations%2Cshare&tab=all&source=btn_donate_sticky

23/02/2026