Mayor: Hands off Palm Beach

MY BEACH: Some property owners at Palm Beach have put up fences on the sand to where their boundary stretches. Picture: David Clark Source: News Corp Australia

GOLD Coast Mayor Tom Tate is determined to knock down the fences erected on Palm Beach by residents marking out the boundaries of their prestige oceanfront properties.

Yesterday Cr Tate described the fences, put up by some of the citys richest residents, as ad hoc.

Safety is the main issue for me, he said.

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If a (Cyclone) Oswald visited again and knocked out those fences, it would be unsafe. (The debris) could take out property and people.

Cr Tate said that the fences would have be removed anyway after new State Government legislation was passed this year guaranteeing beach access.

Those fences are going to be classed as illegal and they will have to come down, Cr Tate said.

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Mayor: Hands off Palm Beach