Nature strips provide space for services like drainage, electricity, and internet infrastructure. They also provide areas for waste collection, street trees, street lighting, bus stops, seating, and shelters.

Nature strips enhance the streetscape and create a safe space between pedestrians and traffic. They usually feature street trees and lawn, providing important benefits to our environment.

Well-planted and well-kept nature strips offer a wonderful opportunity to make public spaces more biodiverse, increasing habitat for pollinators and helping keep streets cooler during hot days.

Creating the guidelines

The guidelines are an important way of working with residents to embrace nature strip planting, ensuring accessibility, safety, environmental benefits, aesthetic appeal and protection of utilities.

Get involved

Have your say until 21 April 2025 on the nature strip planting guidelines.

Your feedback will help us create simple, effective, and useful guidelines for our community.

There are a few ways to get involved: