Council developed a Strategy to promote, maintain and enhance urban greening across the Central Coast by planting and maintaining trees in public areas called the Greener Places Strategy.

The region-wide strategy includes mechanisms to sustain and enhance the urban forest canopy across all land parcels in the urban suburbs of the Central Coast by:

• Increasing the level of tree planting in the 18 priority suburbs with the greatest level of Urban Heat Island Effect.
• Commencing successional planting in Council passive open space reserves.
• Ensuring that public trees that are removed are replaced by planting two new trees in the same suburb.
• Increasing the requirement of private developers to complete high quality landscaping in medium and high density development through future changes to Council's Development Control Plan.

The Strategy acknowledges the ability of urban greening to mitigate certain urban health effects and maintain liveability in urban centres. It is informed by the former Councils’ greening strategies and the Urban Heat Island and canopy mapping technical studies.

The 21 key actions identified in the strategy will be incorporated within Council’s future works program to ensure they are implemented. It is important that we all work together to protect and ensure that tree canopy cover and green space is maintained in a way that improves the liveability of the Central Coast region.

Visit Council's main website to view the adopted strategy.