The EPA encourages the City Council's to produce shoreline management plans for coastlines and tidal waterways within the local authority area.
Non-Urban sections of coastline including South Stradbroke Island and the Southport Spit are not licensed for the construction of a seawall.
The GCSMP will examine whether 20% of the sand could instead be backpassed sustainably to the beaches of Surfers Paradise to mitigate the impact of climate change.
In 1971 the Dutch University Delft completed a report for the Queensland State Government recommending the construction of a groyne at Narrowneck.
The GCSMP will examine if a new reef at Kurrawa Park should be constructed at the 2/3s position to assist with the adaption of Gold Coast beaches to climate change.
The Southern Points of the Gold Coast are northern facing and provide spectacular coastal vistas and great surf.
Surfing waves break along a sand bank that extends from Snapper Rocks through Rainbow Bay, past Greenmount point and Coolangatta, then to Kirra.