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The City may approve a permit for owners, occupiers or developers to develop the nature strip (verge) in front of their property. This should enhance and integrate with the local streetscape and/or greenway corridors. Developments must be in accordance with the City’s Nature Strip Development Guidelines (download below) which also detail when permits are required. Generally nature strip development proposals are required to:
• Not remove any existing trees
• Provide a minimum offset of 2.0m to all trees and drainage structures and 0.6m to all posts or poles.
• Not interfere with formal on-street parking.
Where modifications to the City’s infrastructure (including street trees) are required, this will only be approved in exceptional circumstances, where no other alternative is available, and all costs for such works are to be borne by the developer.
No permit is required from Council for lawns, reticulation, low growing gardens on nature strips, or existing crossover maintenance. Applications are required for all other developments including:
The City's nature strip development objectives are to:
FEES & CHARGES
The City's Fees and Charges can be found here.
Please note that payment of any applicable deposits and inspection fees are required in advance of any works commencing.
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