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The Fingal Head Community Planning Team 2025

The 2024 Fingal Head Community Survey identified several projects that support the preservation of the unique character of Fingal Head. These projects have been organised to align with the six values strongly recognised by the community in both the 2019 and 2024 Fingal Head Community Surveys.

It is proposed to form Community Initiative Groups (CIGs) to focus on and implement these projects. If you are interested in any aspect of any of these projects, please consider joining one or more of these CIGs and expressing your interest by emailing  fingalheadcpt@gmail.com or attending the FHCA General Meeting on November 19. The main agenda item for the meeting will be the formation of the Community Interest Groups (CIGS) to implement the various projects and all members of the community are welcome to attend.

This is your opportunity to contribute to your community and help ‘Keep Fingal Special.’

Summary Of Projects:

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Fingal Head – Community Vision/values & Character Statement

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The Fingal Head Community Planning Team 2025

The Fingal Head Planning Team (FHCPT) revisited the 2019 Fingal Head Locality Plan to develop the Fingal Head Vision and Values Statement. Subsequently, they surveyed the Fingal Head community in 2024.

The Fingal Head Community Vision Statement

The Fingal Head Community Values

The Fingal Head Character Statement

The FHCPT analysed and compiled the results of this 2024 Community Survey and provided the information to the TSC Strategic Planning Team. The Character Statement below was developed by TSC and presented to the Fingal Head community during two information sessions on 10th and 26th July. This document is included in the TSC Draft Development Control Plan and is now open for comment on the TSC ‘Your Say Tweed’ online platform until 3 December (see link below). 

Since this was based on community input, please ensure you inform the Council that you support it.

The draft is available on Your Say Tweed: Development Control Plan draft improvements | Your Say Tweed.

FINGAL HEAD Draft Character Statement

This document was produced by TSC based on 2019 and 2024 community input

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Fingal Flyer – Spring / Summer 2O25

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The Fingal Flyer, a FHCA Publication compiling community input from all sources. Published by the FHCA, printed by the Fingal Head Primary School and distributed by members of the FHCA.

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Fingal Head Flood Analysis

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The Fingal Head Community Association investigated recent historical flooding events that have occurred in our Fingal Head Community in northern Rivers New South Wales as part of our Community Resilience Initiative.

The river flood data required was provided by the Bureau of Meteorology, in accordance with the FOI Act relating the historical River Height data for the:

1. Tweed River at Chinderah (mAHD) – Station number 558010 2. Tweed River at Tumbulgum (mAHD) – Station Number 558014

For the periods:

  1. Cyclone Debbie from the period 10am March 30, 2017 to 10am April 2, 2017
  2. Major rain bomb event in northern rivers from the period 10am Saturday February 26, 2022 to 10am Friday March 4, 2022

Additional river flood data has been provided by the Tweed Shire Council using data sourced from Manly Hydraulics P/L

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NOTE: The 1st flood peak that occurred at Tumbulgum on the Thursday night, 3 days before Fingal Head flooded.

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Tweed Emergency Dashboard

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Our community can bookmark and check out the Tweed Shire Council’s Tweed Emergency Dashboard.

If you get lost trying to find river levels in the BOM web site, just go to the Tweed Emergency Dashboard and click on the big button marked “River heights” – it will take you to the Tweed River section of the BOM web site.

Once in there you can view the graphical plots of all the river gauges on the Tweed River, at Barney’s Point, the closest to Fingal Point.

If you look at the river heights from the past few days you’ll be able to see the effects of the rain in our upper catchments from a few days ago and yesterday. There will be two spikes in the river heights.

Go To: Tweed Shire Council – Emergency Dashboard

Go To: Tweed Shire Council – Tweed River – Latest River Heights

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How to use the BOM Site

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The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) website provides a range of information including rainfall and river heights which are essential information for people living in flood affected areas.
The BoM radar is a great way to observe the rainfall associated with major weather events such as severe thunderstorms, east coast lows and tropical cyclones.
The following information provides a guide to reading the BoM radar to find rainfall and river height readings for the local Tweed area.

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Community – led Resilience Teams

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This guide is designed to assist community members and Red Cross volunteers working with communities to establish and develop their own CRTs.

The guide provides advice for engaging community members, emergency and recovery agencies, and other community stakeholders. It explains the simple steps required to establish and develop a CRT and provides practical examples of how the model has worked in Northern NSW.

Australian Red Cross is working in partnership with RFS and SES, as well as local councils, to encourage a flexible community-led approach to disaster resilience.

Go To: Australian Red Cross – Community – led Resilience Teams

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