Planning for the Inner West's Blue-Green Grid
Media statement: Labor’s Nature Positive Plan: better for the environment, better for business
And $1.8 billion in the recent Budget –
• to protect the Great Barrier Reef
• to save our native species
• to employ 1,000 new Landcare Rangers.
• to support new Indigenous Protected Areas
• to fund the Environmental Defenders Office, for the first time in nine years
• And to clean up our urban rivers and waterways. ...https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/media-releases/media-statement-labors-nature-positive-plan-better-environment-better-business
Labor’s biodiversity market scheme needs to be planned well – or it could lead to greenwashing
Published: August 31, 2022
"A biodiversity market cannot stop degradation by itself"... https://theconversation.com/labors-biodiversity-market-scheme-needs-to-be-planned-well-or-it-could-lead-to-greenwashing-189557
What are the Green and Blue Grids of Greater Sydney?
https://greatercities.au/news/what-are-green-and-blue-grids-of-greater-sydney
statutory review of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016
The Biodiversity Conservation Act requires the Minister responsible for administering the Act to begin a review as soon as possible after 5 years from the commencement of a majority of the Act's provisions (which occurred on 25 August 2017). The purpose of the review is to determine whether the policy objectives of the Act remain valid and whether the terms remain appropriate for securing those objectives. A report on the outcome of the review will be tabled in each House of Parliament by 24 August 2023.
Have your say
Find out more about the review and provide feedback on the review of the Biodiversity Conservation Act by 11 April 2023.
Statutory review of the native vegetation provisions of the Local Land Services Act
The Minister for Agriculture is required to carry out a five year statutory review of the native vegetation provisions contained in Part 5A and Schedule 5A and Schedule 5B of the Local Land Services Act 2013 .
Local Land Services is supporting the Minister to carry out the review, with the assistance of an independent expert advisory panel.
The review is taking place five years since the commencement of Part 5A and Schedule 5A and Schedule 5B of the Local Land Services Act 2013.
Read the terms of reference PDF, 73.73 KB for this review for more information.
Planning for the Inner West's Blue-Green Grid
Thursday 16 March - Sunday 30 April 2023
Council is developing a strategy to create a network of blue and green connections across the Inner West to help improve accessibility, recreation, biodiversity, and lifestyle for all.
The Blue-Green Grid Strategy will create a plan for providing easy, enjoyable walking and cycling connections between the places you live and work (town centres, schools, public transport hubs) with the places you relax and recharge (harbours, rivers, parks, playgrounds).
The Strategy will provide a detailed plan for how we can connect areas of high environmental value, providing more viable areas of habitat and links to scenic landscapes. Popular walking tracks along the Cooks River and Sydney Harbour will be enhanced and complemented by improved connections through tree-lined streets and established urban parks.
Blue features
Canals, creeks, rivers, wetlands, rain gardens, bioswales, stormwater channels, harbour foreshores
Green features
Parks, trees, playgrounds, playing fields and golf courses, bushland, private gardens, street verges, green walls, green roofsGrid
Map of our town centres, schools, public transport hubs and residential areas connected by ‘blue’ and ‘green’ links
Strategy
Council’s plan to build and connect the grid over timeWe're looking for local knowledge. Add a marker to the map to show us:
- Places you love to walk or cycle
- Places you want to walk or cycle to but can't currently
- Missing connections between the places you live and work (town centres, schools, public transport hubs) and the places you relax and recharge (harbours, rivers, parks, playgrounds).
- Places that are too hot for walking
- Habitat corridors and precious ecological spaces that we should embrace and enhance through this project
- Art, cultural or scenic features we should connect to
More info, take the survey, make a submission here https://yoursay.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/planning-inner-wests-blue-green-grid
Leichhardt and Ashfield Council actions related to Green Web 1996-2002
Local Strategic Planning Statement
The LSPS consists of Council’s vision and a set of planning priorities, objectives and actions under six themes:
- Ecological sustainability
- Planning Priority 1 Adapt to climate change
- Planning Priority 2 Inner West is a zero emissions community
- Planning Priority 3 A diverse and increasing urban forest that connects habitats of flora and fauna
- Planning Priority 4 Inner West is a water sensitive city with clean waterways
- Planning Priority 5 Inner West is a zero waste community
- Unique, liveable, networked neighbourhoods
- Sustainable transport
- Creative communities and strong economy
- Caring, happy, healthy communities
- Progressive local leadership
Our urban forest and ecology
The urban forest is made up of trees, other layers of vegetation and
animals and is generally considered an urban ecosystem. A healthy
and diverse ecosystem will combat the urban heat island effect,
capture carbon emissions, help manage urban stormwater, provide
shady pleasant spaces for recreation, and connect habitat. It is an
essential component of the built environment and a legacy for future
generations.
Trees are important urban assets, providing many economic,
environmental and social benefits. About 16% of the Inner West is
covered with tree canopy cover and achieving the State target of 40%
cover by 2030 presents challenges. Increasing the urban tree canopy
by protecting and replanting trees will improve Inner West’s biodiversity,
liveability and resilience. Additional tree plantings will also play an
important role in mitigating the impacts of urban heat. Figures 22 and
22A show the tree canopy in the LGA.
Enhanced urban ecology will support richer biodiversity across the
landscape and improve ecosystem functioning. The Inner West
has 20 hectares of ecological restoration areas at 37 sites. These
natural areas include endangered Coastal Saltmarsh, and remnant
Photo: Cooks River
Photo: Powerful Owl
(Threatened species)
Photo: Long-nosed Bandicoot
(Endangered Population)
endangered Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest and
Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest species and
provide habitat for threatened species (Large Bentwing
Bat, Powerful Owl, Grey-headed Flying-fox, and
Pied Oyster Catcher) and the Long-nosed Bandicoot
population. Habitat for endangered vegetation
communities and animal species must be protected,
retained, enhanced and connected. Figure 21 shows
the location of key biodiversity assets.
Inner West is surrounded by waterways. Council
is committed to improving water and catchment
management. Council aims to conserve water;
increase perviousness, retain water in the landscape,
improve stormwater quality and use stormwater
to support green infrastructure, to deliver healthy
waterways and riparian areas.
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Blue/Green Grid
The Blue/Green Grid incorporates the recreational, ecological and hydrological
grid and aims to create a network of green and blue infrastructure connections
across the landscape. The Inner West Blue/Green Grid aims to provide wildlife
corridors and connect centres, recreational spaces, public transport hubs,
schools and major residential areas with blue and green infrastructure.
Green infrastructure relates to green spaces and vegetation; including parks,
trees, playgrounds, playing fields and golf courses, bushland, private gardens,
street verges, green walls and green roofs.
Blue infrastructure relates to water; comprising creeks and waterways, harbour
foreshores, wetlands and water treatment systems such as rain gardens and
bioswales based on water sensitive urban design (WSUD).
Developing and improving our Blue/Green Grid will provide ecosystem services
and maximise our quality of life and environment by:
• Enhancing access to recreational open space, routes for walking and
cycling, and opportunities for active and passive recreation to support
healthy living;
• Expanding the urban forest and vegetation and integrating water in the
landscape to reduce, urban heat, improve air quality and provide natural
habitat for native fauna;
• Protecting and connecting ecological communities and increasing their
resilience; and
• Improving hydrology – incorporating WSUD, treating stormwater, reducing
flood risk and managing water quality; and
• Providing adequate shade to protect the community from over exposure to
UV radiation.
Council aims to connect blue and green infrastructure in Inner West with
neighbouring councils, further enhancing ecological and public health benefits
across the Greater Sydney region, creating a holistic network that is far greater
than a sum of its parts.
Figure 17 shows an indicative Inner West Blue and Green Grid and identifies:
• Areas mapped in the Eastern City District Plan;
• Works under construction; and
• Other opportunities to further enhance the grid.
As the Blue/Green Grid aims to use synergy to achieve the greatest impact,
the actions needed to fulfil its potential are contained in a number of priorities
that will require collaboration across Council and with State agencies. Actions
related to the Blue/Green Grid are 3.3, 8.1 and 11.1 of th...
Habefield Trees
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