Our Priorities

Green streets and flourishing parklands

Lush, green streets and parklands are more than just beautiful. Green Adelaide will increase tree canopy cover and green spaces to create cooler urban areas, encourage biodiversity and improve community health and wellbeing.

With our population increasing and more people living in apartments or houses with little to no backyard, the need for healthy, green spaces has never been more important. Not only do trees and parks provide homes for our native wildlife and give us space for outdoor recreation, they also help to reduce urban heat.

Urban heat mapping has identified ‘heat islands’ in the Adelaide metropolitan area. These areas generally have fewer green spaces, trees, shrubs and grass and can be up to 3 to 4 degrees hotter on sunny days. It’s vital that tree cover and green spaces are increased to help maintain the community’s quality of life and enable us to better adapt to climate change.

In order to increase the number of trees and green spaces across Adelaide, Green Adelaide will ensure that the biodiversity and water sensitive urban design and green streets and flourishing parklands priorities are strongly linked. This will be done by partnering with local government to determine the priority areas for greening activities and by incorporating water sensitive urban design into new developments and infrastructure.

Green Adelaide will also help to fund and provide grants to local government to deliver greening outcomes in public spaces.

Increasing tree canopy cover and green spaces across our beautiful city is just one of Green Adelaide’s seven priorities. Read more about the other priorities here.

Green streets and flourishing parklands entries

Read about some of the Green Streets & Flourishing Parklands projects that have been undertaken by Green Adelaide’s grant recipients.

Grant Recipients and stories

Get the buzz on a project bringing the bees back to the foothills

Get the buzz on a project bringing the bees back to the foothills - Green Adelaide
 

Vibrant community renew verges in the inner west 5031 area

Vibrant community renew verges in the inner west 5031 area - Green Adelaide
 

New signs enhance Cedar Avenue Reserve in Blackwood

New signs enhance Cedar Avenue Reserve in Blackwood - Green Adelaide
 

Community collaboration sees vital revegetation of City of Holdfast Bay dunes

Community collaboration sees vital revegetation of City of Holdfast Bay dunes - Green Adelaide
 

Empowering education at the Marine Discovery Centre

Empowering education at the Marine Discovery Centre - Green Adelaide
 

Creating a healthier environment in Athelstone

Creating a healthier environment in Athelstone - Green Adelaide
 
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