Yarra Walks (4)
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Rain Tanks
City of Yarra’s Initiatives
for Environmental Sustainability
Water Sensitive
Urban Design
Collingwood Sustainable
Neighbourhood Walking Map
Yarra Walks (4)
Yarra Walks (1)
North Fitzroy Sustainable
Neighbourhood Walking Map
Yarra Walks (2)
North Carlton and
Princes Hill Sustainable
Neighbourhood Walking Map
Yarra Walks (3)
Fitzroy Sustainable
Neighbourhood Walking Map
Yarra Walks (4)
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Raingardens
Through collaborative efforts
between councils, developers
and other relevant authorities,
WSUD is being incorporated into
urban developments and road
designs across Victoria.
Raingardens can include a
combination of native plants,
shrubs and grasses that soak
up rainfall collected from your
roof or driveway. In doing so,
raingardens reduce the amount
of stormwater that would
otherwise wash pollutants
from the hard surfaces into
the stormwater system and
out into our waterways.
The City of Yarra has adopted
targets for stormwater treatment
and has worked with Melbourne
Water on many of the water
sensitive projects outlined in
this map.
North Richmond Sustainable
Neighbourhood Walking Map
City of Yarra
PO Box 168 Richmond 3121
Water Sensitive Urban Design
(WSUD) is a best practice
approach to urban stormwater
management. It integrates
urban planning and design
with the management,
protection and conservation
of the whole water cycle.
WSUD applications include
grassed or landscaped swales,
infiltration trenches and
bio-retention systems, wetlands,
rainwater tanks, greywater
harvesting and reuse, raingardens
and porous pavement. For
more information about WSUD
techniques, please visit www.
melbournewater.com.au.
For more information on Council’s Walking Tours
and services, please see our range of Sustainable
Neighbourhood Walking Map Guides. These guides
are available from Richmond and Collingwood Town
Halls, on the website (www.yarracity.vic.gov.au)
or by calling Access Yarra on 9205 5555.
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Raingardens resemble a
regular garden with one
major difference — they
are positioned to receive
rainwater from hard dry
surfaces such as roofs,
paved areas or road surface.
Anyone can create a
raingarden. They are a
creative, low cost way in
which you can contribute
to cleaner, healthier rivers
and creeks.
For more information
about how to build your
own raingarden, visit www.
melbournewater.com.au.
Rainwater can be used
for a range of applications
around the home including
garden irrigation, laundry
and toilet flushing. By
plumbing your rainwater
tank to your toilet or laundry
you can significantly conserve
mains water.
Rainwater tanks also help to
treat stormwater, which protects
our local streams from high
storm flow and pollutants that
would otherwise be washed
into waterways. Rainwater tanks
come in a range of materials,
shapes and sizes and can be put
above ground, underground,
under the house or even
incorporated into fences or walls.
The Victorian Government offers
a rebate for the installation of a
rainwater tank that is plumbed
to a toilet and connected by a
licensed plumber. For further
details, visit www.dse.vic.gov.au.
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Kitchen Gardens
A number of schools in
Yarra are part of the
Stephanie Alexander
Kitchen Garden Program,
which aims to provide fun
and engaging food education
for young children.
The program includes growing,
harvesting, preparing and
sharing of food.
Children in years 3 to 6 spend
a minimum of 40 minutes a
week in a vegetable garden
that they have helped to
design, build and maintain
according to organic
gardening principles.
They also spend time each
week in a kitchen classroom
preparing meals created from
their produce. www.kitchen
gardenfoundation.org
Collingwood
Sustainable
Neighbourhood
Walking Map
This Collingwood Neighbourhood
map is part of a series of Sustainable
Neighbourhood Walking Maps.
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The maps are a guide to sites at which
Community Gardens
sustainability initiatives have been undertaken
Community Gardens are
places where people come together to grow
fresh food, learn about
gardening, relax and
make new friends.
by the City of Yarra, members of the
community and other organisations. They
show a variety of ways in which sustainability
can be addressed in an urban environment.
‘As temperatures become more extreme and
Community Gardens are
becoming an established
urban land use, reflecting
a revived interest in a
re-localised food supply.
Most are located on land
owned by the Department
of Human Services and are
for use by public housing
tenants only. These gardens
are managed by the notfor-profit group, Cultivating
Community.
The North Fitzroy Community
Garden, Collingwood
Children’s Farm and Mater
Street Community Garden
have open membership.
cultivatingcommunity.org.au
heatwaves and storms become more common,
as rainfall patterns change yielding less water
in dams but more localised flooding, and as
our consumptive lifestyle further depletes
resources like oil and timber, we will have
to adapt to a new way of living.
Every sector in society will need to modify
its behaviour to reduce its environmental
footprint and increase its resourcefulness
in order to move towards environmental
sustainability. And we will need to adapt
together.’
Yarra Environment Strategy — Towards
Local Sustainability 2008–2020.
Yarra Walks (4)
Walking Map
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Bendigo St
Forest St
Alexander St
Easey St
Sackville St
Sackville St
Nth
Yarra
Comm.
Health
Victoria Park
Station
Budd St
HODDLE ST
SMITH ST
Gore St
George St
Harmsworth St
CCIC
Napolean St
Collingwood
N.H
Palmer St
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Studley St
Vere St
Cromwell St
Sturt St
Dight St
Collingwood
Town Hall T
Stanton St
Waterloo Rd
Tram No. 86
GERTRUDE ST
Tram Route
Bike Route
Train Line
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Toilet
Water Fountain
Traffic Lights or
pedestrian crossings
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LANGRIDGE ST
This walk is approximately 3km and takes 45-60 mins.
Bloomberg
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• Please consider using a sustainable form of transport such as walking, cycling or public
transport,
Derby St
when getting to this walk. Visit www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au for public transport information.
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Once you have done the walk why not recycle this map and pass it on to a friend.
Greenwood St
For further information about Council’s environmental projects or what you can do in your own
home visit: www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/Environment/ or phone 9205 5555.
Park St
Raphael St
Russell St
Henry St
Robert St
HODDLE ST
Glasshouse Rd
Islington St
GIPPS ST
Cromwell St
Peel St
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Down St
John St
Webb St
Cambridge St
Charles St
Oxford St
Little Oxford St
Tram No. 86
Condell St
Vere St
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Collingwood
College
Stanley St
Moor St
Yarra St
Collingwood
Station
Lt Wellington St
Campbell St
Dight St
Otter St 6
Stafford St
Perry St
HODDLE ST
St David St
SMITH ST
Greeves St
St. Josephs
Primary School
WELLINGTON ST
Perry St
Bedford St
Chapel St
Gore St
Napier St
The raingardens contain
trees (Fraxinus ‘Urbanite’) as
well as understorey planting
(Lomandra and Dianella).
Little Abbot St
Rupert St
The garden provides over 20
plots, a green house, compost
bays, worm composting and
rain water tanks. Local residents
and young people are welcome
Keele St
Easey St
WELLINGTON ST
Children at Gold Street use
the rainwater for a variety of
Mater Street Community
garden is on Salvation Army
owned land. Crossroads Youth
and Family Services run a
gardening program called
Gardening for Growth that
manages the plots and organises
workshops and events.
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JOHNSTON ST
SMITH ST
Mater Street 5
Community Garden
The system contains seven
raingardens. The first five act
like swales, allowing overflows
to continue along the existing
surface channel to the next
raingarden. The two at the
Wellington Street intersection
allow water to pond, as well
as providing the pits where
excess water overflows into
stormwater pipes. Together
the seven raingardens will
treat an estimated 11,630m2
catchment area.
Keele St
Argyle St
Gore St
Tours through this garden
of 32 plots take place during
the Harvest Festival. The main
language spoken by gardeners
is Vietnamese.
Gold Street Children’s Centre
is a part of the City of Yarra’s
Children’s Centre Water
Saving project. With support
from the State Government,
Council has installed 11
rainwater tanks, 168 tap flow
restrictors and 16 dual flush
toilets across nine of Yarra’s
Children’s Centres. Together
these measures are expected
to reduce the amount of
potable water used at the
centres by around 20%.
As part of Council’s
streetscape improvements
the existing garden beds
along Otter Street (from Smith
to Wellington Streets) have
been modified to treat the
stormwater runoff from part
of Smith Street, Otter Street,
Bedford Street, and
the adjacent buildings.
Little Gore St
Walk along the footpath
between Collingwood College
and the high rise to see one
of the oldest community
gardens in the city. Situated
just behind 229 Hoddle Street,
this garden is home to some
of Collingwood’s longest and
most dedicated community
gardeners.
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George St
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Gold Street
Children’s Centre
View the tanks from the
carpark on Hotham Street.
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Otter Street
Raingardens
Rose St
George St
229 Hoddle Street
Staff are also including
education about the
importance of water in
programs provided at the
centres. It is anticipated that
the education of children and
their families will have
a broader effect in the wider
community.
to set up small garden plots.
The garden promotes chemical
free garden practices.
Napier St
This garden, known as 253, is
situated on Harmsworth Street
to the rear of the 253 Hoddle
street high rise and carpark.
Along with 229 Hoddle
Street, it is one of the oldest
community gardens in the area
and has 43 plots. The garden
is managed by Cultivating
Community and hosts the
annual Collingwood Estate
Festival, which is open to all.
Languages heard here include
Vietnamese, Farsi, Chinese
and English.
gardening and play activities.
As the water comes from a
tank, the children develop
an understanding that it
is important to use water
carefully.
Napier St
The Kitchen Garden at
Collingwood College was
established in 2001 as part
of the Stephanie Alexander
Kitchen Garden Program. It is
a very well-known feature of
the school, and highly valued
by students, teachers and
parents.
Each week, 180 children in
Grades 3 to 6 participate in
the program. The garden
grows food that is then
harvested, cooked, served
and enjoyed by the children.
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Young St
253 Hoddle Street
Hotham St
Gold St
Hotham St
WELLINGTON ST
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Charlotte St
Mater St
Leicester St
Collingwood College 1
Ballarat St
Blanche St
Westgarth St
Emma St
Tram No. 86
Collingwood Sustainable
Neighbourhood Walking Map
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