Urban Greening Program

The City of Gosnells will soon start work creating an urban forest in Maddington during the winter planting season of 2025, through two urban greening projects. This includes thousands of native plants and hundreds of trees at Yule Brook College and Harmony Fields, as well as enhanced street tree planting, under the Urban Greening Grant Program. The program is supported by the Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA), with co-funding from the Government of Western Australia.

This area has been chosen through the competitive grant program due to the high urban heat risk and low tree canopy levels. This program will improve amenity and wellbeing for the local community.

The planting of both trees and understorey plants will create important biodiversity corridors and ecological linkage, including habitat for local wildlife.

Yule Brook College Biodiversity Project

The project site at Yule Brook College neighbours the college boundary at Warrida Way, which will be mulched and converted from a barren strip of land into a biodiverse verge with native trees and understorey plants.

Habitat at Harmony Fields Project

The project site at Harmony Fields covers a significant section of the reserve, along Putting Green, which will be revegetated with locally native, waterwise plants and trees to enhance the ecological health of the popular reserve.

Street Trees

To ensure the benefits of the urban greening program are felt beyond public open space and to help create ecological links, the City will also plant trees in the verges of surrounding streets.

You may be eligible for a free tree for the street verge as part of this program. Interested property owners can complete a quick application, and the City will check the eligibility of the location.

All applications for street trees need to be received by 9 May 2025.

Similar to our regular street tree program, the City will water and maintain the tree during its establishment period.

The trees selected for street planting include:

• Melaleuca preissiana or Stout Paperbark
• Callistemon or Bottlebrush
• Eucalyptus caesia or Silver Princess
• Eucalyptus victrix or Snow Queen

These are all small to medium native trees that have been chosen for the suitability of the species to the area and their low water demands.