2016-2017 Consultation - Scenic Landscape Strategy
Consultation has concluded
Council is producing a Scenic Landscape Strategy to identify and protect the Tweed's highly valued and important landscapes.
Tweed Shire's landscapes tell a rich and complex story of the region's evolution, its volcanic history, ecology, cultural and economic diversity.
Those landscapes include the southern hemisphere’s largest extinct shield volcano, five World Heritage-listed National Parks containing ancient Gondwana rainforests and dramatic mountain ranges and 37km of white sandy beaches and rocky headlands.
Nestled between them are 12 quaint rural villages, coastal creeks, mangrove estuaries, the Tweed River and its vast rich alluvial floodplain, covered by sugar cane.
This diversity of landscape characteristics makes the Tweed Valley a popular tourist destination, as well as an increasingly sought after place to live and work.
The Scenic Landscape Strategy will identify the landscapes' scenic values and implement measures to manage and protect them, particularly in the context of vulnerability to development pressure.
Tell your story
What are your favourite Tweed views and vantage points?
Upload your photographs or images and tell us why these locations are important to you.
Printed images can also be delivered to Council's offices in Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads.