Nature Strip Planting Guidlines 2025

Nature strips do more than just line our streets, they bring life to our neighbourhoods. They provide space for important services like rubbish collection and water supply, and they support our urban forest by giving trees and plants room to grow. We know how important it is for our community to have safe, accessible, and green spaces.

These guidelines are designed to help you create a nature strip that supports biodiversity, looks great, and works well for everyone. Because nature strips are public land, we will need to make a few simple checks through our free permit system. This helps us ensure plantings are safe and compatible with street infrastructure.

These guidelines apply to nature strips on Council-managed roads. They don’t apply to main or arterial roads managed by the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP), laneways, shopping strips, median strips or private property.

We have also created a Nature Strip Planting Toolkit with helpful resources, including a recommended plant list, weeds list and sample planting plans.