Consultation process

Have your say on the draft Eyre Peninsula Regional Landscape Plan and the programs that will be delivered across all priority areas.

What’s being decided?

We want your feedback about the draft Eyre Peninsula Regional Landscape Plan (draft plan) which sets the vision and priorities for the region to achieve sustainable landscape management.

The draft plan, and Supporting documents, focus on the region’s key landscape requirements and the programs that will be delivered across all priority areas of:

• water
• sustainable agriculture
• pest plants and animals
• biodiversity
• community.

These priorities were set out by the Minister for the Environment and Water when the landscape boards were established in July 2020.

Get involved

Read the draft Eyre Peninsula Regional Landscape Plan including the Supporting documents.

To have your say:

• join the online discussion
• complete the online survey
• provide your feedback via email to ep.landscapeboard@sa.gov.au

How can your input influence the decision?

Your input will help the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board identify any priorities important to the local community and add them to either its current planning or future programs.

We will consider your feedback prior to finalisation of the Eyre Peninsula Regional Landscape Plan and associated documents.

What are the next steps?

The final Eyre Peninsula Regional Landscape Plan and supporting documents will be published on this site and the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board website after 30 June, 2021.

Contact details

For general inquiries:

• email us at ep.landscapeboard@sa.gov.au or
• call us on 8688 3111 during business hours (9am to 5pm, weekdays).

Closing date: 5pm, Monday 29 March 2021

Background

Now Closed

This online engagement was hosted on YourSAy from 26 February to 29 March 2021. Find out more about the consultation process. Below is a record of the engagement.

The Eyre Peninsula landscape region covers an area of 80,000 square kilometres. It extends from Whyalla in the east, along the Gawler Ranges in the north, to the edge of the Nullarbor Plain in the west. The region includes over 3,000 kilometres of coastline spanning from the upper Spencer Gulf to the Great Australian Bight, including 182 offshore islands.

In July 2020, a new way of managing South Australian landscapes was welcomed with the Landscape South Australia Act 2019 replacing the former Natural Resources Management Act 2004. Given this change, and the appointment of the new Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board, we updated our previous plan to a new Regional Landscape Plan for the Eyre Peninsula.

We built on previous community engagement that had recently concluded, and re-mapped all of the original priorities identified by our community to align with the new legislation. This approach was unanimously supported by the Eyre Peninsula Local Government Association.

Our previous planning approach started with us developing an understanding of what the community valued on the Eyre Peninsula, and identifying opportunities to protect and enhance those valued features.

To capture the different subtleties across the region’s landscapes, the region was divided into 5 subregions based on areas of similar landscape and land uses, with regional descriptions developed for each subregion:

• Spencer (Whyalla)

• Central Eyre (includes Cowell, Cleve, Kimba, Wudinna and Lock)

• Far West (includes Ceduna, Streaky Bay, Minnipa, Venus Bay and Smoky Bay)

• Southern (includes Port Lincoln, Tumby Bay, Cummins and Coffin Bay)

• Musgrave (includes the towns of Elliston and Lock)

We undertook additional community engagement to refine these subregional descriptions. We identified the systems that influence the subregions and their challenges, with opportunities to address these challenges captured.

These subregional descriptions have been retained and highlight what the community valued most from a landscape, livelihood and lifestyle perspective. You can read the refined subregional descriptions on the Supporting documents page.

We used the outcome of this earlier consultation to inform the new plan, with extreme care taken to retain the essence of what our community values most.

Read the draft Eyre Peninsula Regional Landscape Plan including the Supporting documents then get involved.