ASBN SustainabiliTEA #13 // Planning for Greening and Biodiversity

Please join us via Zoom for some tea (or morning beverage of your choice) and a casual yarn with Gavin Ashley,  Head of Better Cities and Regions with HIP V HYPE around the Green Factor Tool. 

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As cities densify, a reduction in private land urban greening can exacerbate urban heat and biodiversity loss.

Other cities have developed excel-based tools to quantify urban greening at the lot scale, but the Green Factor Tool created for City of Melbourne is the only web-based tool, and uniquely quantifies a 'green factor' score based on an ecosystem service approach.

City of Melbourne is pursuing an amendment to introduce use of the Tool as the primary pathway for meeting a new proposed planning policy. The development assessment process presents a critical opportunity for leveraging improved private land greening outcomes.

Beyond Melbourne, the consultant team who led the development (HIP V. HYPE with partners Little Sketches and Dr Judy Bush of the University of Melbourne) have further developed the Green Factor approach and are customising and contextualising solutions for other jurisdictions.

We look forward to share space with you all virtually with a soothing cuppa and some inspiration from interstate!

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About Speaker 

Gavin Ashley // HIP V HYPE – Head of Better Cities and Regions

Gavin is the Head of Better Cities & Regions at HIP V. HYPE. With more than 15 years’ experience in urban development and sustainability across the private, non-profit and public sectors, Gavin leads the technical delivery of climate mitigation and adaptation planning – developing policies, frameworks, tools and guidelines to promote more sustainable outcomes at precinct and city scale. Gavin is a One Planet Integrator with Bioregional Australia and Green Star Accredited Professional (Green Star Communities). He was integral in the development of the Sustainable Subdivisions Framework, a guideline enabling residential subdivisions to be adaptive and resilient to the changing climate. Gavin also led the delivery of the award-winning Green Infrastructure Assessment Tool for City of Melbourne, designed to facilitate the inclusion of green infrastructure in our urban environments

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Acknowledgement of Country

Adelaide Sustainable Building Network acknowledges the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains, Tarntanya, where our work is most often undertaken. We also acknowledge the Peramangk People of the Mt Lofty Ranges, the Ngarrindjeri of Fleurieu, Coorong and lower Murray regions and the Ngadjuri of the Barossa and Mid-North as the traditional custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to all Elders, past, present and emerging, of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander spirituality recognises the connectedness of people and culture with earth, sky and water country. The land is alive with traces of Dreaming ancestors. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.