A council greening trial is drawing locals and tourists alike to the city’s neglected side streets
A jasmine plant climbs up a red brick facade towards the sunlight in Melbourne’s Guildford Lane.
This once “raw”, “grotty” laneway has become a poster child for the city council’s green permit scheme, which is set to be expanded to other parts of the CBD. Lindsay Bull, the owner of Brick Lane cafe on Guilford Lane, says the trial has turned the laneway into a popular tourist destination.“We get lots of people just cruising down the laneway; you see them taking pictures for Instagram. That’s what they love,” he says. “It used to be a grotty old laneway you wouldn’t even think of coming down.”
“These laneways have become green oases that have lots of other features like health and wellbeing and managing city temperatures better,” she says.
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