NEW YORK: The nine hundred and ninety-fourth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.
As if Melbourne’s laneways don’t have enough going on with their cafes, galleries, fashion houses and street art, the City of Melbourne now wants to turn them into gardens as well.
The council is asking people to nominate the CBD laneways they would most like to see overhauled with trees, climbers, edibles and other forms of greenery as part of a wider push to introduce more plants into the city.
The council, which says it will transform up to four laneways at this stage, has developed online maps that specify the greening potential of more than 200 city lanes.
By taking into account exposure to sunlight and wind, access to storm-water, the number of driveways and bins and other details, the council has ranked the lanes on suitability for planting treatments.
