Green Adelaide Regional Landscape Plan
Consultation has concluded
Consultation Process Now Closed
This online engagement was hosted on YourSAy from 15 March to 12 April 2021. Below is a record of the engagement.
Please tell us your thoughts on our draft plan to create a cooler, greener, wilder and climate-resilient metropolitan Adelaide.
What is being decided?
We invite your feedback on the Green Adelaide draft Regional Landscape Plan (the Plan) - a pathway to a cooler, greener, wilder, and climate-resilient Adelaide.
The Plan is a 5-year strategic plan to guide our work, as well as leadership and partnerships with:
- government
- industry
- environmental NGOs
- communities across the Green Adelaide region.
The Plan focuses on 7 priorities, included in our Plan Summary, which are set out by the Landscape South Australia Act 2019. It includes:
- 4 iconic project ideas
- key focus areas (actions and activities) and outcomes for each of the seven priorities
- our role and investment principles
- how we will measure its progress.
Get involved
Read the draft Regional Landscape Plan (2021-2026) and the Plan Summary.
If you are from an organisation or group, we've developed a set of Discussion Questions to help guide your feedback in regards to partnerships and the Plan.
Have your say by:
- joining the online discussion
- completing the online survey
- attending a community forum (in person or streamed)
- attending an online information session
- emailing us a written submission
How can your input influence the decision?
Your feedback will inform the final Plan, which sets its strategic direction for the next 5 years.
We will use your feedback to inform our annual business plan for 2021-2022 which will:
- support the delivery of the Regional Landscape Plan
- outline the budget, staffing and levy arrangements over the 2021-22 financial year.
Annual business plans also identify projects and programs to be funded each year to meet the strategic direction of the Regional Landscape Plan.
What are the next steps?
We will consider and incorporate your feedback into a consultation report, which will be available on this site.
The final Regional Landscape Plan (2021-2026) and Annual Business Plan (2021-2022) will be finalised by June 2021. It will be available on the Green Adelaide website and this website.
Contact
For general enquiries:
- email us at dew.greenadelaide@sa.gov.au
- call us on 8463 3733 during business hours (9 am to 5 pm, weekdays).
Closing date: 5pm, Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Background
Green Adelaide is one of 9 landscape boards. It was created on 1 July 2020 under the Landscape South Australia Act 2019, following a range of reforms to the natural resource management (NRM) system.
Green Adelaide’s region spans 17 metropolitan councils (from Gawler River in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south) and about a third of Gulf St Vincent.
For the first time, metropolitan Adelaide has a government organisation sharply focused on making progress towards a climate-resilient and ecologically vibrant city stretching from the hills to the sea.
The Act requires us to prepare a 5-year Regional Landscape Plan to deliver practical outcomes across the following 7 key priorities:
Coastal management
We will help conserve and restore Adelaide’s unique coastline to benefit our way of life, our economy and provide vital habitat for native plants and animals.
Water resources and wetlands
We will protect, enhance and restore Adelaide’s water resources (our rivers, wetlands, groundwater or underground water and lakes) to help preserve these essential ecosystems and the wildlife that call them home.
Green streets and flourishing parklands
We will increase tree canopy cover and green spaces to create cooler urban areas that encourage biodiversity and improve community health and wellbeing.
Biodiversity and water sensitive urban design
We will build industry and community capacity to design cooler, greener and nature-friendly developments and infrastructure.
Controlling pest plants and animals
We will help coordinate the management of invasive pests to support an Adelaide that is rich with healthy biodiversity.
Nature education
We will grow nature and sustainability education in Adelaide to support children and adults to connect with the environment.
Fauna, flora and ecosystem health in the urban environment
We will create more urban spaces for plants and animals to thrive in which in turn provides people a better quality of life.
The draft Regional Landscape Plan was developed based on feedback from:
- the NRM system reform consultation during 2018
- stakeholder* consultation during mid 2019
- stakeholder* consultation during November and December 2020.
*Stakeholders included representatives from local councils, government agencies, the environmental sector, industry peak bodies and Warpulai Kumangka (Green Adelaide’s Kaurna Advisory Group).
Green Adelaide is primarily funded by the Landscape Levy, which is collected through local councils.
The levy is paid by all ratepayers across the state to fund their local landscape boards to protect and enhance the environment.
The levy recognises that all residents and landowners have important roles and responsibilities around enjoying, managing and protecting our landscapes.
Everyone across the region is both an investor and a beneficiary.