DAREBIN: Tree cover boost for North
A budget boost towards the tree canopy in Preston and Reservoir is welcome, says Preston MLA Nathan Lambert (pictured)
“If we look around Melbourne, it is very obvious that those famously leafy suburbs – if you think of Canterbury, Toorak, Ivanhoe, for that matter, or Kew – have tree cover levels that are between 20 and 25 per cent. “If you include the shrubs and the ground cover, their green space is very significant – almost half of the land area.
“If you come out to Preston and Reservoir, it is a very different story.
A”We have tree canopy cover of about 9 per cent and a little bit more in other green space.
“If you head a little further north of us up to Thomastown, it comes down to 5 per cent,” Mr Lambert told the Legislative Assembly.