Smoke-free by summer: Cottesloe beach. Picture: Michael Wilson\/The West Australian <\/p>\n
Cottesloe beach could join Sydney beaches such as Bondi and Manly in banning smoking in time for next summer. <\/p>\n
If the Town of Cottesloe's ban goes ahead, it would become the third WA council to make smoking on the sand an offence. <\/p>\n
The Town of Cottesloe has yet to decide how the bans would be enforced and what the fines should be. <\/p>\n
Under State Government laws introduced in 2009, smoking between the flags at patrolled beaches, including Cottesloe, is an offence but no wider blanket ban exists. <\/p>\n
The cities of Joondalup and Cockburn have banned smoking on beaches since 2007 and 2008 respectively. <\/p>\n
The City of Nedlands considered a smoking ban at Swanbourne in 2008 but did not pursue it. <\/p>\n
Cottesloe wants a permanent ban on smoking at all the town's beaches, citing environmental, health and amenity benefits. A ban would require amending a local law, which it hopes to do in time for the 2015-16 summer season. <\/p>\n
Cottesloe chief executive Carl Askew said exactly where the proposed ban would apply had not been determined. <\/p>\n
He said council still had to decide how such a ban would be implemented and enforced but it was likely to be a combination of community education, warnings and fines. <\/p>\n
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