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Design your new Dutch Inn paths - Cottesloe

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Created by alverstone > 9 months ago, 27 Oct 2016
alverstone
WA, 529 posts
27 Oct 2016 4:27PM
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On Tuesday night, Cottesloe Council organised a committee to design all the footpaths along its 4.5km of beaches, including
those at Dutch Inn.

The committee is going to take submissions from beach users about what they want from their paths during November.

Given kiters' and windsurfers' interest in getting the best out of the spot, and following on from the council putting in a new carpark, may I suggest you all keep an eye on the council's website, or send something to the general email in the next few weeks.

My submission will make the following points:

- Happy with klopper logs and sand - no need for anything fussy or expensive. But all paths should be made diagonal, with the beach end downwind, to reduce erosion.

- Conduct a major refurbishment of the windsurfers' path opposite the playground and the main one used by kiters opposite the new car park. The other two paths should be restored using the design guidelines listed below.

- To stop erosion, the kiters' main path could be diagonally realigned from near the new car park to the blowout about 10m south of the current entrance to the beach. The old, dangerous and collapsing path could be closed and revegatated.

Design principles:

- Remove old klopper posts at the bottom of the dunes and replace then with the plastic, bendable posts used by Fremantle Council at Port Beach. The old posts offer no dune protection and a kiter could collide with them if they are dragged across the sand.

- All bits of the logs. bolts and sharp surfaces that stick out from the klopper barriers to be cut off. or the new paths' barriers engineered without them. The bits that stick out catch and tear kites, their bridals, and windsurfers' rigs, and are dangerous.

- Footpaths and their entrances need to wide - like that used by the windsurfers opposite the playground - to maximise ease of going up and down with kite and rigs in windy conditions, and less chance of hitting members of the public.

- Log fences either side of the paths should be low, at least on the prevailing leeward side to assist people bringing kites and windsurfer rigs up to the grassed areas for drying and packing.

- If the paths cannot be widened, the log barriers could be on an tilted angle "outwards" to help increase the useful area (Note: a new path has been created at nearby Telephone Box because the steps are narrow.)

- Efforts made with Cottelsoe Coastcare and the State Government to get funding to restore the dune vegetation, with emphasis on the increasingly large blow-out beneath the exercise area at Telephone Box.

Still no news about the possible new shower, but a camera has been put up on the shade cloth poles at the playground to monitor summer use of Dutch and nearby Telephone Box, which the council prefer we not use.
No hard rules about bans yet because the council will spend some time reviewing all its local laws for all its beaches.

PS. This is also on the WA and windsurfer sections.

alverstone
WA, 529 posts
31 Oct 2016 9:33AM
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That's the sand and wood paths going from the foreshore to the beaches that they are designing - not the bike/walk/run path at the top.

alverstone
WA, 529 posts
8 Nov 2016 3:10PM
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Send your ideas to council@cottesloe,wa.gov.au in November.



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