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Council Owned Trees - Street and Reserve
The Council is committed to enhancing environmental sustainability and green cover throughout the City. Can't find what you're looking for on this page? For more tree content, visit: Trees on Private Land and Tree Management Did you know... The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters: manages approximately 23,000 street...
Tree Management
The Council is committed to enhancing environmental sustainability and green cover throughout the City. Can't find what you're looking for on this page? For more tree content, visit: Trees on Private Land and Council Owned Trees This page contains information about what the Council is doing to retain and increase...
Trees on Private Land - Backyards and Gardens
Trees cool and shade our homes and streets, reduce electricity bills, and are our best way of adaptation to the impacts of climate change. With 69 percent of the City’s land privately owned, backyards, gardens and private landscaped areas make significant contributions to our City’s tree canopy cover. The benefits...
Tree Incentive Program
Discover how you can help increase tree canopy coverage in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters with an $80 voucher towards planting a tree that meets program criteria on your property. Why a tree incentive program? The goal of the Tree Incentive Program is to increase tree canopy...
Plant a tree and weâll help cover the cost
... fact that trees play an important role in our communities, delivering a range of social, environmental and economic advantages. Trees give us oxygen, store carbon and stabilise soil and are vital habitat for wildlife. They are a precious resource...
Regulated & Significant Trees
There are new legislative controls in place to protect tree canopy across metropolitan Adelaide including changes to the definition of regulated and significant trees. Regulated and Significant trees are particularly important and common in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. The Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 and...
Tree Strategy 2022–2027
There are more than 20,000 street trees in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters and 7,000 trees in parks and reserves. In an important step to ensure the establishment, protection and longevity of our trees, the Council has delivered a five-year Tree Strategy. The purpose of the Tree...
Using tree canopy data to plan for a cooler, greener City
17/11/2020
In a first for metro Adelaide, the Council collaborated with 17 other local councils and the Government of South Australia to capture tree canopy coverage and height for all trees more than three metres. Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology, we captured high resolution, 3D tree data by flying...
Working together to choose the right street trees
15/02/2021
The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters recognises the critical importance of street trees - they cool and shade our homes and streets, add character to the area and economic value to properties, and are greatly appreciated by the community. To ensure our street trees continue to thrive and...
Trees - Private and Council Owned
Trees are valuable living assets, providing a host of health, economic and environmental benefits for our community. Related content Verge Gardens Street & Footpath Cleaning Regulated and Significant Trees Tree Strategy Kitchen & Garden Our Environment - Tree Management Our Environment - Get Involved
New State Government rules to protect tree canopy
21/05/2024
New planning regulations have been introduced by the State Government to protect a greater number of trees. Taking immediate effect, the new regulations will protect trees with a smaller trunk circumference. The trunk size for regulated trees has been reduced from two meters to one metre, and the trunk size...
New State Government rules to protect tree canopy
... number of trees. Taking immediate effect, the new regulations will protect trees with a smaller trunk circumference. The trunk size for regulated trees has been reduced from two meters to one metre, and the trunk size for significant trees...
Insects, Bugs & Beetles
This page provides information about the control and management of common insects, bugs and beetles, and how to report suspected Fruit Fly. Mosquitos Protect yourself from mosquito-borne disease. Mosquitoes breed in stagnant fresh, salty, brackish and polluted water. Mosquito numbers can increase after floods and storms as standing water from...
Verge Gardens
We encourage residents to take pride in their verges, to enhance the aesthetic value of their properties and the streetscape as a whole. Verge gardens A well-designed and maintained landscaped verge can: improve your property’s kerb appeal absorb rainwater improve community pride increase local biodiversity. Collectively, the more vegetation (and...
Trees on Private Land - Backyards and Gardens
Trees cool and shade our homes and streets, reduce electricity bills, and are our best way of adaptation to the impacts of climate change. With 69 percent of the City’s land privately owned, backyards, gardens and private landscaped areas make significant contributions to our City’s tree canopy cover. The benefits...
Regulated & Significant Trees
There are new legislative controls in place to protect tree canopy across metropolitan Adelaide including changes to the definition of regulated and significant trees. Regulated and Significant trees are particularly important and common in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. The Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 and...
Tree Strategy 2022–2027
The purpose of the Tree Strategy is to provide a comprehensive strategic and operational framework for the management of trees in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters.
Get a tree voucher today!
24/02/2023
Trees cool and shade our homes and are one of the best ways of adapting to the impacts of climate change. The Council is offering property owners within the Council area an $80 voucher towards an established tree to plant on their land. Vouchers are limited and registration is required....
