Teralba to Toronto Climate Resilience Planning

Now open for public exhibition

You're invited to review and make a submission on the Teralba to Toronto Climate Resilience Plan before 31 July 2025.

Overview

The Teralba to Toronto Climate Resilience Plan is for the suburbs of Teralba, Fassifern, Fennell Bay, Booragul, Woodrising, Marmong Point, Bolton Point, Blackalls Park and Toronto (the T2T area).

On the north-western side of Lake Macquarie, the T2T area offers a great lifestyle, where residents can enjoy living close to the lake and bushland.

However, climate risk studies identify these suburbs as some of the most at-risk locations in the Lake Macquarie local government area to the impacts of climate hazards.

This risk is due to the exposure of assets and infrastructure and community vulnerability due to socioeconomic factors which can reduce people’s ability to respond to, and recover from, climate related events.

The plan has been developed with the community using a co-design approach to identify climate risks and actions to build climate resilience in their local area. Community and stakeholder engagement has occurred since late 2021. Nearly 500 potential options were identified to address climate risk within community and stakeholder workshops. These options were reviewed and refined to what has been incorporated into the plan under five climate resilience themes: A resilient community, Emergency ready, A resilient natural environment, Resilient assets and infrastructure and Building climate knowledge.

The Teralba to Toronto Climate Resilience Plan is Council’s third local adaptation plan, after the Marks Point and Belmont South local adaptation plan was adopted by Council in 2016, and the Swansea and Surrounds local adaptation plan was adopted by Council in 2021.

Council would like to thank the members of the Community Working Group for their time and efforts to develop the climate resilience plan.

Face-to-face opportunities

Wednesday 9 July at Toronto Hub 6-8pm. Get Emergency Ready with this two hour workshop presented by Red Cross on practical ways to prepare for emergencies and take steps to building your individual and household resilience. This will include a short presentation by Council staff on the T2T Climate Resilience Plan. Bookings are essential.     

Wednesday 16  July Toronto Library 3-6pm. You’re invited to drop-in and discuss the Plan with the project team.