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Council Grants To Green Up CBD Are Here

Opportunities are now available for residents and businesses to bring pockets of green to the drabbest areas of the CBD. Find out how you can get involved.

Just when you thought that the Adelaide lifestyle couldn’t become any more idyllic, the Adelaide City Council have created a new grants program for residents and property owners to green up the concrete jungle.

After the success of adding splashed of street art across our urban environment, the ACC have now envisaged living walls, vertical and verge gardens, vine covered walls and verandahs and, if someone gets really creative, perhaps an unused alley or car park could become a community garden? It’s like that Joni Mitchell (or Counting Crows if you like) song Big Yellow Taxi is actually got heard. Someone should write them all some fan mail and let them know they can perform at the next opening of our pending pot plant alleyways.

Adelaide City residents and property owners can access grants of up to $10,000 to create pockets of urban greenery through the Council’s new Green City Grant Program with a total of $100,000 available. The only stipulation is that projects must be visible from the street, with locations that currently have little or no greenery (read: sad places) given preference.

Grants for residents will begin at $500, and $1000 for business and property barons. All applications must be made before October 14.

It’s all a part of the Adelaide City Council’s ambitious aspiration to increase the amount of green space and greenery in the CBD to a measurable 100,000sqm over the next four years. Adelaide is gunning to become one of the three most liveable cities in the world by 2020, and this incentive no doubt has a part to play in it all. The next might be filling a few of those empty offices around the place. We can’t wait to see the next incentive to kick start that.

For more information on Grants available to residents and businesses, visit the Adelaide City Council website.

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