Foreshore Masterplanning

Masterplanning is a phase done early in development, aimed to collate critical, multi-disciplinary elements that will enable a project hold together, without reaching the stage of detailed engineering for all elements.

Foreshore masterplanning can be a challenge, as shores change over time. Implications for getting it 'wrong', even by a few metres, can include significant impact to foreshore amenity, or high costs to undertake retroactive stabilisation.

It is not always easy to get all disciplines involved at an early phase of a project. Consequently, it is worth recognising some simple aspects about foreshores, to reduce some of the risks of masterplanning mistakes.

Naturally, I'd recommend getting foreshore engineering input earlier rather than later...