Community Guide for Owners, Guests & Renters
To ensure a shared enjoyment of the beautiful beaches, natural forest, and walking paths of Southcott Pines, and to create a safe environment, it is important to work together as a community.
Our Shared Spaces & Responsibilities:
1. We live in a forest; a spark could be very dangerous for everyone. We strongly encourage no open fires at any time.
2. Our narrow and winding roads are shared by automobiles and pedestrians. To ensure everyone’s safety, please abide by the 30 km/h speed limit and drive with caution.
3. Respect your neighbours and limit noise during late evening hours and on Sundays.
4. SPPA properties (Sun Beach, parking lots, pathways, parks, and clubhouse) are shared by all. Please keep them clean of garbage and obstructions. Place garbage in the barrels provided. Do not use these receptacles for household waste. Leave nothing, take only memories.
Sun Beach:
1. Sun Beach is a private space for Southcott Pines members and their guests, helping keep it uncrowded and enjoyable for everyone. To access Sun Beach by car, on foot or bike, an SPPA Beach Pass must be presented to the Southcott Pines Ambassadors.
2. The beach and water are not safety assessed or life guarded. Use at your own risk. Water quality surveillance for nearby beaches is monitored by the Lambton Health Unit. Stay clear of the groyne.
3. For the safety of swimmers, water vessels of any type are not permitted inside the designated swimming area as marked by the floating buoys. This includes powered crafts, kayaks, canoes, and paddle boards.
4. Fires and BBQs are not permitted on Sun Beach, the parking lot, pathways, or parks.
5. No glass containers on the beach.
6. Before you leave the beach area, please:
• Collect all of your refuse and deposit it into the garbage bins provided in the parking lot.
• Fill holes in the sand you may have created
7. Structures on the beach such as tents, gazebos, shelters, etc. are not permitted. Only small shades for infants or beach umbrellas are permitted. Remember that the beach is for everyone. Small shade tents for infants or beach umbrellas are permitted.
8. Possession or consumption of alcohol, vaping and smoking are not permitted, and charges may be laid by the O.P.P.
9. For the ecological and environmental health of the beach area, play in, or passage through the dunes area is expressly prohibited.
10. For the enjoyment of all members, unattended chairs, umbrellas, towels, toys, etc. are not permitted and will be removed by SPPA Ambassadors.
11. Sun Beach is a strict NO DOGS zone – at any time, day or night.
Dogs:
1. When off your property, dogs must always be on a leash. There are no areas for open dog runs.
2. Dogs are NOT permitted on Sun Beach at any time.
3. Please remember to pick up your pet droppings.
Parking
1. Parking at Sun Beach requires a beach pass. To ensure there is enough parking space for those with small children or limited mobility, only ONE vehicle per home in the parking lot is permitted.
2. Shoreline Drive is posted for NO PARKING as well as Maplewood Avenue from Shoreline Drive to 50m S/E of Shoreline Rd.
3. Parking on all other streets is permitted by Lambton Shores By-Law, providing all four tires are off the pavement.
4. Review the Lambton Shores Parking By-Law for the complete list of where you can and cannot park in Lambton Shores. (Southcott Pines neighbourhood specifically is on page 12).
Golf Carts:
Golf carts and any other motorized unlicensed vehicles are not permitted on the roads of Lambton County (including Southcott Pines) or on the pathways, parking lots, or any other properties of Southcott Pines Park Association.
If you see vandalism or have other concerns, please call the Lambton O.P.P. Non-Emergency line at 1-888-310-1122 or Municipality of Lambton Shores By-law at (519) 243-1400 ext. 8115.