Urban Canopy Strategy

The City of Canada Bay adopted the Urban Tree Canopy Strategy in 2019. The strategy sets out priorities and actions we need to undertake to achieve our goals of increasing the City of Canada Bay's urban canopy from 18 to 25 per cent by 2040. The key priorities are:

• Protect and value. Ensure that tree management policies and programs help to protect the urban forest by increasing the retention of existing trees on public and private land.

• Renew and grow. Ensure that tree planting programs strategically plan for increasing the total canopy cover across Council.

• Support and sustain. Manage the health and condition of urban trees to minimise risk and support and sustain a healthy, growing urban forest.

• Engage and create. Work with the community and key stakeholder groups to enhance the urban forest for amenity, liveability, and biodiversity benefits and provide opportunities for collaboration.

• Manage and resource. Reduce conflicts between people, infrastructure and trees and ensure adequate funding is available to support urban forest growth and management.

In order to achieve the our targets, Council's aim is to plant 1,500 trees in public spaces every year and a total of 2,500 together with the community.