Urban street trees play a vital role in people’s lives. They:
- transform places into attractive and inviting landscapes by providing streets with atmosphere, beauty, and colour;
- define precincts and enhance locations through placement and size; and
- provide a range of ecosystem service benefits that make our urban areas healthier and safer places to live, work, and visit (see Section 2.2).
Fairfield City Council (hereafter, Fairfield City or City) is working to implement strategies that will inform how and where to grow urban street tree assets over the next 10 years in such a way as to maximise benefits to people and places. Developing these strategies will help to set targets and actions to deliver practical and quality management processes for urban street trees.
Fairfield City’s Street Tree Management Plan (STMP) provides direction for street tree planting across the City area. It details why trees are important to our city and its people and communicates street tree planting priorities. The primary aim of this STMP is to guide the selection of tree species for plantings and identify where plantings should be prioritised to maximise benefits to people and create healthy and diverse landscapes across the City.