I'll stick post on the 'WA" section too , but users of Dutch Inn in Cottesloe may want to look at the Town of Cottesloe council website to see the proposed paved area, shower and new path to the beach at the end of Salvado Rd. There is a sign about it at the top of the old, decaying sand path.
The proposals are at the north end of the new car park they built two years ago, after the hoo-ha when they were thinking of a kite ban everywhere else and that complaint from an old dear nearby about her kid being hit by a kiter's 'sail' (i.e a poley).
The improvements are also supposed to draw kiters away from nearby Telephone Box to the north where Marc Sprod was killed.
You have until March 6 to WRITE a response to the council using the address on the website - bang 'em on the back of postcard, if you must.
The route of he proposed new path looks to go diagonally from south of that seat infront of the car park to where we stash our bags just upwind of the current path.
My suggestions are: the new path's handrail on the leeward side of any path is LOW and free of sharp bits that could catch kites and their bridals, no trees that could catch kites at the top of the path, keep the top of the path as open and fee of signs/bins/plaques and other obstacles as possible so as to not attract the public in kiters' ways, and the seating in the paved not to be so long that is in a direct line from the top of the path to the grassed area in front of the carpark where kites are likely to be pumped up and packed.
MORE INFO is in the public comment section on the Town of Cottesloe website.
This is your chance to have your say.
Here is the link to the info and design plans;http://www.cottesloe.wa.gov.au/Council-Have_a_Say-Community_Comment__Beach_Access_Path_Upgrades.htm
Submissions by March 6 can be sent to PO Box 606, Cottesloe, 6911 or council@cottesloe.wa.gov.au.
My points in order of importance will be;
1) Low handrail on the leeward said of the new path to stop kites catching on the bits that stick out/no bits that stick out, 2) new path to have as low a gradient as possible, 3) no trees or other obstacles at the top of the new path, 4) seat in the paved not to go across the direct line from the grassed area to the top of the new path, 5) foreshore path to have painted warnings of 'kiters crossing' 
, 6) smaller paved area to cut costs, if needed.
The new carpark is awesome, unfortunately there isn't enough beach to self launch and land there without having your ankles ripped off by evil limestone.
I don't understand why people have to roll kites up on the grass, I've been rolling up my 2009 ozone on the sand since the day I bought it and it is still in perfect condition. I've always thought that carrying an inflated kite up the dunes is 10x more likely to reduce kite life than simply putting it away with a fair bit of sand on it.
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The new carpark is awesome, unfortunately there isn't enough beach to self launch and land there without having your ankles ripped off by evil limestone.
I don't understand why people have to roll kites up on the grass, I've been rolling up my 2009 ozone on the sand since the day I bought it and it is still in perfect condition. I've always thought that carrying an inflated kite up the dunes is 10x more likely to reduce kite life than simply putting it away with a fair bit of sand on it.
People roll kites up on the grass because they can. That's all. Depends on wind and how knackered you are after a sesh, really. If it's mild, then the beach is OK. But if it's howling, with sand going everywhere, and it can fly easily as you hold it up walking the old path, then the option of having it dry while you change or have a beer is always there.
