“I want my four-year-old daughter to grow up around nature and I know that it’s possible to do that in the city,” says street gardener Emma Cutting. | CarolynAnneWebb
claimed the council’s draft nature strip guidelines for suburbs such as St Kilda and Port Melbourne would have meant “the end of street gardening for the vast majority of residents”.
The corridor will support the movement of pollinating insects – including native bees, flies, wasps, flies and beetles – across inner Melbourne by creating an unbroken green link south of the Yarra River from Westgate Park in Port Melbourne to the Royal Botanic Gardens in South Yarra.Cutting said after the initial eight-kilometre pollinator corridor is established, it will be expanded elsewhere in Melbourne. And she has had inquiries about starting versions in Adelaide and Sydney.
But Cutting said after negotiation with the community, the council’s final guidelines would allow a lot more street gardening and preservation of existing plots. An early draft said residents couldn’t plant within 1.5 metres to 2.5 metres of a tree; that has now been changed to 50 centimetres.In addition, the council minutes on the resolution state that “modifications to current nature strip gardens will only be requested if safety or access concerns are raised”.
Port Phillip Mayor Marcus Pearl said: “We have listened to our community and believe we have come up with the best possible way of greening our city through beautiful street plantings while not risking the safety of people with mobility or vision concerns.”
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