Strategies, Policies and Publications

• Environmental Policy
• Environment Strategy
• Environmental Indicators for metropolitan Melbourne
• Environmental Purchasing Guidelines
• Green Wrap
• Indigenous Plants for your Garden booklet
• Spring Outdoors Brochure 2009
• Stormwater Management Plan
• Sustainable Living in Banyule - A guide for your garden Booklet
• Weed Management Strategy
• Yarra River Frontage Weed Action Plan

Environmental Policy

Banyule has an Environmental Policy that states Council’s broad intentions and principles in relation to its overall environmental performance and provides a framework for action and for the setting of its environmental objectives and targets. Click on the link below to view the policy.

Environment Strategy

The Banyule Environment Strategy 2003 establishes an up to date focus for ensuring a coordinated approach in addressing environmental issues ranging from the local to the global and identifying opportunities for enhancing the character of our local environment.

To download a copy please click on the link below.

Environmental Indicators for metropolitan Melbourne

Environmental Indicators for metropolitan Melbourne is a long term project in association with the Australian Institute of Urban Studies and councils in the Melbourne metropolitan region. Council has been involved in this project since 1998. To date, eight bulletins have been produced which focus on a range of environmental issues including air quality, transportation, greenhouse gas emissions and urban waste.

For more information on this project click here

Environmental Purchasing Guidelines

New environmental purchasing guidelines have been adopted as a management protocol for Council. These have been developed with the assistance of Council's internal Environment Working Group and follow on from Council joining the Local Government Buy Recycled Alliance in April 2001.

Council aims to demonstrate leadership and responsibility to the community by purchasing ecologically sustainable products which will in turn foster improved markets that will ultimately result in environmental quality improvements.

The objectives of the guidelines are to:

• provide a framework that will encourage the sustainable use of resources by Council;
• enable all staff who make purchasing decisions to have access to information that makes it easier to be environmentally conscious when evaluating product choices;
• increase the use of alternative products and processes that result in less damage to the environment;
• increase the use of recycled products and thereby support the aims of minimising:
  - the amount of waste to landfill;
  - the waste of primary resource materials such as trees, minerals, fossil fuels etc; and
  - the damage caused to the environment in obtaining the primary resources.
• increase the use of products that result in more efficient energy use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
• promote a waste minimisation and energy efficient culture within the organisation to reduce, reuse and recycle resources.

Green Wrap

Council's environmental newsletter "The Green Wrap" is now available. 

Please click on the link below  to download a copy.

Indigenous Plants for your Garden booklet

This guide provides descriptions of indigenous plants suitable for planting within Banyule and outlines their requirements. Please click on the attachment below to download the booklet.

Spring Outdoors Brochure 2009

The Spring Outdoors program is a regional program of environmental events brought to you by Banyule City Council, Manningham City Council and Nillumbik Shire Council.

 Please click on the link below to view this years program.

Stormwater Management Plan

Council has completed and adopted a Stormwater Management Plan to address stormwater quality and quantity issues, particularly as they affect the receiving waters, including our local rivers and streams - and ultimately Port Phillip Bay.

A steering committee of officers from Council, Melbourne Water and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created to guide the process. A consultant was engaged to facilitate the development of the plan.

The Stormwater Management Plan identifies actions that have been developed in response to current threats. These actions have been costed and given an indicative year from the commencement of the plan by which they should be implemented. In 2002/03 Council has allocated $127,000 (to be shared dollar for dollar with the State Government).

The adoption and implementation of the Stormwater Management Plan provides Council with the strategic basis for improved stormwater management and hence the improved environmental condition of waterways and wetlands in the Banyule area.

Click on the links below to download a copy of Banyule's Stormwater Management Plan.

Sustainable Living in Banyule - A guide for your garden Booklet

Banyule Council has recently prepared a gardeing booklet which is now available.

 This booklet has been designed to aid change from conception right through to completion. Key themes of outdoor sustainability are introduced throughout the booklet giving the reader the knowledge and techniques to achieve change. A checklist of change can be found in the middle pages to pull out and audit your work. There is also a list of local resources such as native nurseries and local businesses that use sustainable products.

You too can:

• Plant indigenous plants to provide habitat
• Change waste disposal practices to return organic matter to your soil
• Save money by reusing materials

Click on the links below to download specific fact sheets or contact one of Council's customer service centres for a full copy to be sent to you. 

Weed Management Strategy

Council has recently adopted a Weed Management Strategy for the municipality.  The strategy seeks to guide future weed control initiatives in Banyule. 

The strategy is divided into three sections:

• Part 1:   identifies and revises relavant weed management legislation and policies at national, state and local levels.  Weed control responsibilities of different landowners in the municipality are identified and discussed according to land type and weed status as defined by legislation and policy.
• Part 2:   documents the current weed management issues within the City of Banyule.  Priority weeds and weed control issues are identified and discussed.
• Part 3:   provides an integrated approach to proposed actions that will provide cost-effective weed control and prevention of their spread.  This part consolidated all information contained in the two preceding sections to provide an informed weed managment strategy for the City of Banyule.

Yarra River Frontage Weed Action Plan