The Wellington Park Trust has released its draft management plan for comment at

http://www.wellingtonpark.org.au/management-plan-review/

Representations and comment are due 26th October. The CCT will probably make a representation. I will start a thread in the CCT area when I've had a chance to review the doc

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Review of Management Plan

The Trust has released a draft Management Plan as the final stage of the review of the Wellington Park Management Plan.  The review is an opportunity to consider existing policies and management actions, and to achieve the best balance to protect the values of the Park.

Current status

The Trust has released a draft Management Plan for public review and comment.  Representations will be received until close of business 26 October 2012. 

Downloads

Draft Management Plan

• Complete version (20Mb)
• Summary Sheet

Representation e-form

Word version (download and save to your computer)

Direct submission (not saved to your computer)
You can download the draft Plan (20mb).  Alternatively, if you have trouble with larger documents, then you can download the Plan in parts: Part 1-2; Part 3-4; Part 5-6; Appendices.

Hard copies of the draft Plan will be available for inspection at the offices of: Glenorchy and Hobart City Councils; Kingborough Council; Derwent Valley Council; and Huon Valley Council. Copies of the draft Plan are also available on CD (no cost) or in hard copy ($10) by contacting the Trust on 6238 2176 or review@wellingtonpark.org.au. 

Making a representation

Representations may be made by email or in writing. Representations should be sent:

• By post: GPO Box 503 Hobart 7001
• By hand: Any of the above Council offices
• By email: review@wellingtonpark.org.au

Please try to structure comments in relation to the chapters of the draft Plan.

Alternatively, an e-form is available from the website, and may be downloaded and emailed or posted, or submitted directly from the site.  Use the download version if you wish to save your representation to your computer.

Representations are to be made to the Trust by close of business Friday 26 October 2012. All representations shall be forwarded to the Tasmanian Planning Commission for independent review.

Web-forum

The Trust has established a web forum to facilitate community discussion on the draft Plan.  The forum is an opportunity for members of the community to consider the proposed policy and actions, and to provide different perspectives on the management issues.  The forum provides a structure for the discussion, and will be retrospectively moderated by the Trust.

Please note that participation in the forum does not constitute a representation on the draft Management Plan.  Representations will only be received in writing as outlined above.

All visitors can view the forum, however you must register in order to make a comment.  Please follow the instructions for registering under the 'Using the Forum' heading.

Further information

Please feel free to contact Michael Easton, Manager, if you have any queries regarding the draft Management Plan: review@wellingtonpark.org.au or 03 6238 2176.

Mark Polinski has written up the routes he's done on the Mersey - check it out: Mersey Cliffs

Jon, Nice piece of research. Guess that means the access is in need of editing.  

I'd like to go back there some time and repeat the trad routes at Tea Leaves and Main Cliff.  Did you have a crack at any while you were there?  Carnap used to be a bit of fun....

Recently I have been looking for new places to climb close to Hobart. I had a look at the map of the coastline around Clifton and noticed that there is actually a strip of Crown Land (and therefore access) all along the coast. Given that there hasn't been any access (or new routes) since about 1991, I was curious:

1. Can you get to the cliffs without crossing private land?
2. Is there any nice wave washed rock like Mt Brown?
3. Would it be worthwhile resurrecting access?

Today I went for a recce with Dave. Answers below - so you don't have to bother!

1. Can you get to the cliffs without crossing private land?

Yes. There is strip of crown land between 20-40m wide all the way along the coast, and you can walk to all the cliffs listed in the guide by keeping the seaward side of all the fences. The hard bit is the choss cliff at the start. We started trying at sea level but there is a bit towards the end of the choss cliffs where it gets harder. So we went along the top, which is a steep in places bashing though she oaks, but quite doable without going into private land. From the looks of it it looks like the fences have been moved back up the hill a bit compared to the nineties - there are a bunch of remenants of old rusted fences that go right to the cliff edge. 

From the end of the choss cliff is relatively easy to follow the coast around to the cliffs. Unfortunately the walking is harder and slower on the seaward side of the fences - on the way back we walked just inside the paddocks which was much faster. It takes between 40-60 minutes to get to the cliffs going along the coast. If going again I would put more effort into the sea level traverse and maybe add some fixed lines, as around the top was a bit shitty. 

2. Is there any nice wave washed rock like Mt Brown?

Hmm, not anywhere near as good. The best bits of rock were the several large boulders below the Tea Leaves cliff, but its too far to go for bouldering. There was an interesting bulge and a couple of aretes at the Henna cliff. The main cliff looked pretty ordinary. Bits of Tea Leaves are ok, but not awesome.

3. Would it be worthwhile resurrecting access?

Probably not unfortunately. Can't see anyone bothering with the walk, and I dont think there is enough potential for new stuff to get anybody excited.

Gallery

		Tea Leaves	Tea Leaves
Tea Leaves	Main clifton cliff - lower section (Straw Dogs, Noir City)	Main clifton cliff	Main clifton cliff
Main clifton cliff	Main clifton cliff	Tea Leaves boulders	Tea Leaves boulders
Looking north from tea leaves	Random coastline near tea leaves	Tea Leaves	From Clifton Beach.
Tea Leaves boulders	The choss cliff at the beach	Another possibilty - The Rookeries, which is further along the coast. Photo Roger Parkyn.	Henna Cliff
Henna Cliff	Looking back to clifton	Pinnacle at Henna Cliff	Looking back to clifton
Aerial photo	Random boulders	A pinnacle along the way	Along the shoreline
Before Henna Cliff	Bulge at Henna Cliff	Bulge at Henna Cliff	Aerial photo
Aerial photo	Map from theList showing the coastal reserve all the way to the cliff

Previously on the Choss Files

hi all,

last weekend saw some of the CCT members take part in the annual SAREX (Search and Rescue Exercise). it saw the Police, SES and many volunteer groups working together to prepare for the inevitably unfortunate events of reality. There were some very testing conditions, and i think we proved the rescue capabilities we can contribute to the community. Check out some of these links for some pictures/movies etc.

ABC new report

Richard Bugg took some great photos, up on his website here.