Blacktown cool streets
After visiting the Angus Creek Stormwater Harvesting scheme at the Blacktown International Sports Fields today, we headed to the location of the Blacktown Cool Streets program—Boonderoo Avenue.
Blacktown Cool Streets was a program administered by architects Gallagher Studio, CRED Consulting in partnership with Blacktown City Council. In short, it was a program that gave residents of the street to choose the trees that would be planted in their street as a cooling measure. The increased levels of community engagement was used to engender community ownership of the process (and of the trees).
One of the other stated benefits was social cohesion as each resident was able to meet their neighbours through the program.
I had expected the trees would be bigger by now as they were planted in 2016. Perhaps they are a slow growing species.
