Strategic areas
92% of participants agreed or strongly agreed with the strategic areas
Thank you to everyone who participated in consultation activities over the past two years to help Council develop the Urban Forest Strategy and Implementation Plan.
Our Urban Forest Strategy and Implementation Plan will support us to plan, manage and maintain Banyule’s highly-valued urban forest for the next 10 years. Actions taken today will continue to shape the urban forest in a way that enhances and protects it for future generations.
The Urban Forest Strategy and Implementation Plan were adopted by Council on 9 October 2023.
Amendments made to the Strategy, Implementation Plan and Background Technical Report as a result of your feedback include:
Watch the Council meeting or view the Council report and minutes and refer to Item 5.1 in the minutes.
The Banyule community has inherited an urban forest that has been shaped by many influences, including generations of land use, urban development and design and public policy.
Over the past two years we worked with the community to develop a new Urban Forest Strategy. The actions in the new Strategy will continue to shape the urban forest in a way that enhances and protects it for future generations.
The Urban Forest Strategy and Implementation Plan will support us to plan, manage and maintain Banyule’s highly-valued urban forest for the next 10 years. Actions taken today will influence the state of the urban forest, and long-lived trees in particular, at the end of the century.
The Strategy will help to facilitate the expansion of the urban forest, strengthen the benefits that our population of trees and plants provides and respond to the priorities identified during community engagement.
Key targets of the Strategy are:
Major actions of the Strategy are:
At the beginning of 2023, 94 people completed an online survey and 21 people submitted a long form submission to provide feedback on the draft Urban Forest Strategy.
We also held three community forums in March 2023, which were attended by 54 community members. During these forums we received 111 comments and questions which have been collated and considered during analysis for updating the Strategy.
View the full findings report (updated 10 July 2023).
Overall:
81% of participants told us that they support the draft Urban Forest Strategy and associated actions and measures.
Key themes from the consultation were:
During Stage 1 engagement we developed the framework vision and principles. The six strategic focus areas highlighted were:
The strategic areas and actions were then shared with the community on Shaping Banyule for feedback from 9 May to 20 May 2022.
During this consultation we:
We then asked for your feedback on whether the community agreed with the strategic areas and how you wanted us to prioritise the actions within each strategic area.
92% of participants agreed or strongly agreed with the strategic areas
View the full findings report.
Banyule’s urban forest is resilient. It is thriving and people are aware and value the role of the urban forest for health and wellbeing and in making Banyule a great place to live.
The urban forest is managed as an essential asset for Banyule and decisions about the urban forest are fit for place and purpose and space is provided to support greening and larger tree canopy.
People work with Council and are active in the protection, management and maintenance of the urban forest.
In December 2021, we asked for feedback on the draft Urban Forest Strategy principals; 99 people providing feedback through an online survey.
We also asked you to complete two sentences... Here's what you said.
(Note: the bigger the word the more times it appeared in your feedback).
Q1: Urban Forest in Banyule means... the dominant themes were habitat and wildlife, the importance of urban forest for human benefit, indigenous species and all vegetation, not just trees.
Q2: I like having trees around me because... the dominant themes were personal wellbeing followed by providing shade, cooling and supporting fauna.
Your feedback also highlighted the need to reference the natural environment in the principles, therefore we amended the fourth principle and added a fifth principle to reflect this.
The Banyule Urban Forest principles are the beliefs and reasonings that provide focus for this Urban Forest Strategy. The Urban Forest Strategy principles were endorsed at the February 2022 Council meeting:
With the framework in place the Strategy moves to the next stage, developing the actions and indicators, with the draft report to be developed in June.
View the full UFS Framework Consultation Findings Report.
Banyule City Council recognises the importance of green landscapes and the contribution they make to building a municipality as a preferred place to live, work and visit. Council is also committed to protecting, enhancing and managing our urban forest into the future.
Community expectations on environmental issues have also changed and a revision of the Urban Forest Strategic Plan (2015) was required to provide further direction on private and public land. The actions we put in place now will benefit our future environment and community.
In 2021, a street tree audit was conducted and registered approximately 70,000 existing street trees, their condition, life expectancy, and height. Preliminary analysis of the data indicates that there is potential to plant around 13,500 trees in road reserves across Banyule.
The Urban Forest Strategy allows us to plan, manage and maintain one of Banyule’s highest valued assets - its urban forest - for the next 10 years. It will help facilitate the expansion of the urban forest and strengthen the benefits that our population of trees and plants provides.
The Strategy will also guide our Tree Planting Program, Street Tree Renewal Program and overall tree management in Banyule. It will also allow for further analysis to address future outcomes and actions.
Our community is made up of diverse cultures, beliefs, abilities, bodies, sexualities, ages and genders. We are committed to access, equity, participation and rights for everyone: principles which empower, foster harmony and increase the wellbeing of an inclusive community.
Banyule City Council is proud to acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as traditional custodians of the land and we pay respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past, present and emerging, who have resided in the area and have been an integral part of the region’s history.
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