Greening Melbourne; one laneway at a time Gail Hall, Coordinator - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Greening Melbourne; one laneway at a time Gail Hall, Coordinator Green Infrastructure

Green Our City Strategic Action Plan

The Action Plan targets Targets by 2021 Achieve People are Double the Double the healthy, knowledgeable number of area of green diverse and supportive vertical green roofs to ten vegetation (at of green roofs installations to hectares least 80 per and vertical 100 cent) greening

The four focus areas and eleven actions Focus area 2: Develop Focus area 1: Lead by Focus area 3: Focus area 4: and Maintain Example Targeted Advocacy Effective Regulation Partnerships • Build a • Co-fund through the • Work with • Develop a planning demonstration Urban Forest Fund Fisherman’s Bend scheme amendment green roof/s taskforce to • Advocate for • Enhance influence a major • Evaluate the Green industry standards sustainability growth area Your Laneway and rating objectives in the project mechanisms • Continue and Municipal Strategic improve Canopy Statement • Improve information green roof forum accessibility • Provide an ESD/GI service • Join and attend CASBE

Mapping the existing laneways

Whose lanes are they? Private 16ha, 27% 43ha, 73%

Analysing the lanes 8

Results 9

Checking suitability for different typologies

Forest Lane

Vertical Gardens

Farm Lane

Park Lane

Participate – our online community engagement forum https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/greenlaneways 16

The Nominations – over 800 of them!

Some laneways were very popular

City of Melbourne concept – Myers Place

The Laneway champion’s concept

What we learned – Green is not enough People love climbing plants – but trust matters Traffic changes can be popular Stakeholders expect the ‘full package’ – Art – Lighting – Greening – Resurfacing Vertical greening takes time to look good – order plants as early as possible

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The green and the greener at Myers Place

Artists’ impression – Coromandel Place

Coromandel overall Discuss tree and bollard

Vertical greening

Trees Magnolia Discuss tree and bollard Native Frangipani

Pedestrian Priority Discuss tree and bollard

Pedestrian Priority Discuss tree and bollard

Murals

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Guildford Lane – tour groups and additional art 42

Laneway Champions make all the difference 43

Guildford lane working bee 44

Promoting the finished products https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=RBtAUUzH7Uo 45

Sharing the data with everyone – The Open Data Platform https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Environment/Laneways-with-greening-potential/s8dq-xd4g 46

Case studies to share what we learnt 47

Evaluation of the project 48

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