What are your thoughts on the strategy?

Dear PPCC,

Please consider the following feedback for consideration / amendment of the Greening Port Phillip draft document.

Pg 4. Measuring our success. Please include as an indicator total park area. There has been a steady decline in Park area with spaces consumed by activities such as Yarra Trams extension with no local replacement of equivalent park area. Each year it is ebbed away until minimal quantities will remain. More parks of course means more space for trees.

pg 8. Open spaces, paragraph two incorrectly states there is limited opportunity for expanding open space with increasing population. Port Melbourne has an abundance more…

While the draft strategy mentions the benefits of native trees (less water needed, good for fauna, more in keeping with Australian environment and aesthetic--ok that last one is mine) the policy stops short of recommending native trees be planted in public spaces. This is extremely disappointing and should be changed. The policy should state that native trees should be planted exclusively in the City of PP (on an as needed and replacement basis). In particular, we are so beyond water sucking, gutter clogging, allergy causing, "we wish we lived in Europe" plane trees.

Fantastic strategy, and great website. I agree with the strategy, especially around creating more 'open spaces'. And through better collaboration with the public, such as through this website, we might now begin to fill some 'missed' gaps.

For example, there is a current Port Phillip Council plan to build a new bike lane along Beaconsfield Parade (between Langridge and Mary streets).

Whilst this is a great plan, which will remove one lane from the road and introduce wider nature strips and hence more 'green', the plan has missed a fundamental issue - the unsightly and unnecessary power lines and poles along this more…