Expensive residential real estate on the surrounding "Balmoral Slopes" benefits from the views and beach proximity.

Intended as a platform for lectures by the expected "World Teacher", believed by the Theosophists to be Jiddu Krishnamurti, it was demolished in 1951, and its foundations used for an apartment building that still stands on the site.

The Balmoral Beach Conservation Area is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register.

From this point, the line went off-road onto its own reservation through a narrow rock cutting (now public walking track).

[10] The southern section of the promenade was completed as part of the Balmoral Beautification Scheme in 1927[11][12] and government employment projects during the Great Depression helped fund other sections, the bridge to Rocky Point, the Bathers Pavilion[13] and the Rotunda to be completed by 1930.

The excavation work conducted during the construction of the promenade uncovered at least seven Indigenous Australian skeletons interred in ceremonial fashion, indicating that Balmoral Beach was used by the original Eora speaking people as a burial ground.

The harbour beaches face north east and is sheltered from ocean swell by Middle Head.

[16] The conservation area includes the promenade, the esplanade, the Rotunda and the Bathers' Pavilion, which date back to the 1930s.