Share your feedback to help Council support communities to prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters.
We’ll be at the Mangrove Mountain and Districts Country Fair to ask Gosford West Ward residents, including communities across the mountain districts, what community resilience looks like locally and what strengths, relationships and practical support help communities look after each other.
Research has shown that the communities that are connected and help each other prepare and respond in an emergency recover quicker and are more resilient.
The draft Natural Disaster Resilience Strategy sets out a coordinated framework to build disaster resilience across the Central Coast by embedding natural hazard risk management into Council planning, infrastructure, community capability, and emergency preparedness.
The Central Coast is highly exposed to natural hazards, including bushfires, flooding, coastal erosion, storms, and the potential for drought.
How the Strategy actions are shared
The draft Strategy includes actions that sit across Council planning, community preparedness, infrastructure, recovery and partnerships. Some actions are led by Council, while others rely on the role and expertise of emergency services, disaster management agencies and other partners.
What Council will do:
- Updating hazard mapping and risk tools
- integrating climate and disaster risk into asset management and capital works
- strengthening planning controls in hazard-prone areas, improving emergency management systems and communication
- supporting community preparedness and local resilience networks
- investing in critical resilience infrastructure
- embedding disaster risk considerations into long-term financial and strategic planning.
What emergency services do:
Emergency services and other disaster response agencies continue to lead activities like flood rescue, bushfire management, evacuations and emergency warnings.
To learn more and provide feedback about the Central Coast Council’s Natural Disaster Resilience Strategy go to:
https://www.yourvoiceourcoast.com/natural-disaster-resilience-strategy
Information from Central Coast Council
