[talk-au] Why set coast line to nation park or administrative boundaries?

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 20:25, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> As for the administrative boundaries .. the present official view is
> that local councils cannot now sell 'land' between the high tide and low
> tide, however they have in the past.
>
> What the state of this 'land' between high and low tide is now I'm not
> certain of.
>

Several years ago now, I was having this same conversation with a bloke
from Sydney.

His family have owned a private marina in Sydney (I'm not sure if the main
or Middle Harbour?) since the mid-1800s. They have a car park on the shore,
a jetty going out over the water, with their office built on it, & a pier
going further out from that.

Several years before I was speaking to him, they'd put in for planning
approval to rebuild & extend the existing office on the existing jetty,
where it's above the actual land / water boundary.

Council had no issue with it, but they were still waiting State Govt
approval, as the two departments involved (call them Lands vs Harbours &
Marine) were arguing, *in court !*, over which Dept had the right to give
them the OK to go ahead! NB neither Dept had any issue with the planned
work, they were arguing over which of them had control of that bit of wet
dirt, 2m below the jetty, which hasn't seen the light of day for 170
years!, & which wasn't going to be touched, or affected in any way, by the
proposed work :-(

Thanks

Graeme
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