Holmes Street Bushland North

An unprecedented opportunity to establish best practice natural area

management• 45% of Bush Forever Site 125

• Largely CoG managed

• $680,000 budget

• Comprehensive baseline studies

• 5-year implementation program

• Quality ecosystem management

• Integration with urban environment

Holmes Street Bushland North

• Urban growth front• 400ha CoG natural areas• Bush Forever 400ha + Canning and Southern Rivers• Bush Forever poor integration, lack of management• HSBN as a model

Holmes Street Bushland North

• 45% of BF125• + other contiguous bushland• Largely CoG managed• Some third party owned• Garden Street extension• Poor integration, no management• Unauthorised access• Bushfire risk

The Site

Holmes Street Bushland North

• L1585 Harpenden Street Subbie

• CoG owned• 10-Lot subdivision• Addresses poor planning

outcome• Largely degraded• Direct offsets• Retains linkage• Best practice construction

• 100% of profits to environmental projects

• $705,000 to Mary Carroll Park• $615,000 to Ecological

Recovery Team• $680,000 to HSBN

A Creative Funding Opportunity

Holmes Street Bushland North

Baseline studies:

• Vegetation community mapping and targeted flora

• Wetland definition

• Dieback interpretation

• Mapping of weeds and degraded areas

• Fauna – vertebrate and invertebrate

• Fire fuel loads and management

Phase One 2015 - ~$100,000

Holmes Street Bushland North

Integrated management planning:

• Dieback management

• Revegetation/rehabilitation

• Feral fauna management

• Strategic fire management

• Access Management

• Fencing

• Interpretive signage

• Pathways

• Pedestrian infrastructure

Phase One 2015 - ~$100,000

Holmes Street Bushland North

Implementation:

• Dieback intervention

• Revegetation/rehabilitation

• Feral fauna management

• Access Management

• Fencing

• Interpretive signage

• Pathways

• Pedestrian infrastructure

• Fire management

Phase Two 2016-2020 - ~$580,000

Holmes Street Bushland North

Strategic Fire Management:

• Fire ecology informed

• Managing fire risk

• Management of fuel loads, including maintaining high fuel areas

• Strategic fire access tracks

• Creation of cells

• Clearing permit for burns – purpose permit?

• Our experience so far – Bodallin Crescent Reserve

• Fire as a management tool

Phase Two 2016-2020 - ~$580,000

Holmes Street Bushland North

• Important environmental asset integrated with its urban surroundings

• Well considered and planned management

• Community ownership through use

• Valued asset

• Part of the urban fabric

• Permanent part of the area’s identity

• Educational opportunities

• Model for other areas

Vision