Metropolitan Adelaide to become greener and wilder

Green Adelaide’s new Cooler, Greener, Wilder Grants Program sees seven local councils across metropolitan Adelaide sharing in $1.19 million for innovative environmental projects that will deliver greening outcomes and that incorporate water-sensitive and biodiversity-sensitive urban design principles.

Successful projects include a sustainable upgrade of Alawoona Reserve in the city of Marion, continuation of biodiversity corridors in Pasadena and Holdfast Bay, and a green transformation of four intersecting streets within Renown Park.

The City of Port Adelaide Enfield project aims to create a cooler, greener and more resilient streetscape on a residential street in Queenstown. This project will combine water-sensitive design through permeable paving, greening by planting canopy trees, shrubs and understorey, and biodiversity-sensitive design through the creation of a vegetation corridor.

Deputy Premier SA Susan Close notes “our local governments already play a vital role in on-ground works for local environments and this additional funding is allowing for new and innovative projects to come to life.

“This is significant in the holistic opportunity that it provides in projects contributing to our vision of a cooler, greener, wilder and more climate-resilient Adelaide.”

The successful projects are:

• City of Port Adelaide Enfield – A greener, cooler, and more resilient streetscape, Victoria St, Queenstown

• City of Holdfast Bay – The final piece of the Holdfast Bay Warriparri biodiversity corridor, Shannon Avenue

• City of Marion – Alawoona Reserves raingarden, Mitchell Park

• City of Charles Sturt – Living streets, Renown Park

• City of Mitcham – Smart stormwater and biodiversity, Pasadena

• City of Adelaide – The Creek of Cultural Connection, eastern parklands

• City of Salisbury – Railway corridor rehabilitation, Pooraka

Green Adelaide Presiding Member Professor Chris Daniels advised “applications were ranked on their ability to integrate urban greening, water-sensitive urban design and biodiversity-sensitive urban design outcomes, and the seven successful projects showed a thoughtful approach to achieving in all of these areas.

“The program will help councils elevate their already significant contributions to environmental works.”

To view more details about the recipients of the Cooler, Greener, Wilder Grants Program head to Green Adelaide. https://www.greenadelaide.sa.gov.au/

Image. Alawoona Reserve Credit: City of Marion