Interesting that kiting and dogs are high risk activities?
The City’s primary focus is balancing the safety of beach users in high-risk areas while maintaining the coastline as an attractive and diverse tourist location. Recreational beach activities considered to be highly conflicting on the beach include: • kitesurfing; and • animal exercising. A minimum 50 metre buffer zone should apply to locations where highly conflicting beach activities may impact on popular swimming destinations. Restrictions on highly conflicting activities on the beach should apply as follows: • Kitesurfing: #56256;#56440; North Mullaloo: Designated beach launching and landing area, approximately 345 metres south of West View Boulevard to Korella Street. #56256;#56440; Pinnaroo Point: Designated beach launching and landing areas, approximately 355 metres, extending 230 metres south of the John Wilkie Tarn Access Path and 125 metres north of the John Wilkie Tarn Access Path. • Animal exercising: #56256;#56440; Hillarys Beach: a linear area extending approximately 810 metres north of the Ern Halliday Camp Site underpass. It should be acknowledged that a designated area for a highly conflicting activity does not imply exclusive use of the area. All beach users should be able to access these areas; however, appropriately located signage will indicate that they enter these areas at their own risk.The City’s primary focus is balancing the safety of beach users in high-risk areas while maintaining the coastline as an attractive and diverse tourist location. Recreational beach activities considered to be highly conflicting on the beach include:
Does this mean that all beach launching and retrieving is banned outside the designated zones at Pinnarooo and north Mullaloo beach? Does this mean that all Mindarie kiters have to drive to north Mullaloo or Pinnaroo?
the consequences are no kiteing at mullaloo nexted summer the ratepayers are organised and want KITEING shut down WAKSA i think the big guns are needed as for the landing and launching area at mullaloo looks good
Please do not complete the online survey yet. It is essential that the kiting community sticks together and has one united message to Joondalup City Council. WAKSA and Mullaloo Kiters User Group are currently working on exactly the best way forward, not only for Mullaloo, or the beaches in Joondalup shire, but as this may bee seen as a bit of a WA test case, this is important for all WA kiters. As it has been said we have until the 6th April to feedback - early feedback is not counted any more than feedback on the 6th, so if everyone can just hold fire until we have a united strategy. Once we have this we will let you all know and you can, and we will need you to, feed consistent comments back into the consultation process.
I am a poly and know that sailboards have been at Pinnaroo for some time. All this trouble with beachgoers and the Shire and the dangers to kids being hit by certain ignorant kiters has created problems. Before Kities..no issue. Thats all I want to say and I hope the Shire provides safety to normal beachgoers by moving kities away from Pinnaroo.
ok f/man before the wheel there were no probs so go back to your cave iam sick of reading your posts and a few others on this matter iwant my kids to surf sail kite were ever they want
A detailed circular to all members and subscribers went out Friday. It gave a thorough rundown of just how critical it is that we have every kiter & every other contact we can rally; esp those living within the City; responding to the survey and voicing their support.
Please be aware that all subscribers to the WAKSA website receive our E-News circulars. So even if you can afford to risk your assets & future income everytime you kite (ie think you dont need insurance) and dont want to sign up for full membership get onto the site and become a subscriber - for free! www.waksa.com - keeps you in the loop.
We will make sure everyone signing up this week gets a copy of the Joondalup response circular. It has to be lodged by April 6th. Please - we need the numbers.
