We're developing a new Urban Forest Strategy to support a greener City of Belmont

Trees and canopy cover are vital to a thriving city, offering essential benefits such as cooling urban areas, providing shade, improving air quality, managing stormwater, and supporting local wildlife habitats.

The new Urban Forest Strategy is being developed to retain and enhance these green assets through a best practice framework for policy, management practices and future planning.

It will build on the City's current strategies and plans:

Project Stages

This is the journey our Urban Forest Strategy will take

  • Timeline item 1 - complete

    Community feedback and ideas

    The public is invited to provide feedback on key urban forest initiatives and share their ideas to help shape the draft Urban Forest Strategy.

    The community survey is open from Monday 29 April to Friday 24 May.

  • Timeline item 2 - complete

    Development of Urban Forest Strategy

    Results from consultation with key stakeholders and community feedback is reviewed and integrated into the Draft Urban Forest Strategy.

  • Timeline item 3 - active

    Council endorsement of Urban Forest Strategy

    The Urban Forest Strategy 2025-2030 will attend the Ordinary Council Meeting on Tuesday 24 June with a recommendation for endorsement

    View strategy document and recommendation in the Meeting Agenda (Item 12.2).

  • Timeline item 4 - incomplete

    Release of Urban Forest Strategy

    Following endorsement by Council, the strategy document will be designed and released.

Community contribution

In April and May 2024, we invited the community to share their ideas and feedback on key urban forest initiatives to help shape the new strategy.

This included getting an understanding of the challenges, priorities, and the current and ongoing needs of our community.

During the community feedback period, we had: