Our Urban Forest

Urban Forests are an important natural asset that promotes many benefits for our neighborhoods. There are now numerous studies that demonstrate established urban canopies promote localised cooling, more active communities, more resilient ecosystem services and a variety of economic benefits to residents. 

The City of Armadale is dedicated to expanding the urban canopy through the Urban Forest Strategy to ensure these benefits are accessible to residents in all localities. The improvements provided by green infrastructure can be broadly characterised into health, economic and environmental factors. 

Trees play an important asset, providing health, economic and environmental factors including: 

Health 

• It can help alleviate mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression 

• Physical health improvements 

• Promotes active streets 

• Thermal comfort 

• Filter pollutants from air and water 

• Reducing extreme heat-related illness and death  

 Economic 

• Localised cooling can reduce the need for air conditioning and electricity demand in buildings 

• Increase in real estate value with established trees and green streets 

• Community benefits from more active streets and parks 

 Environment 

• Localised cooling 

• Increased biodiversity and presence of urbanised wildlife 

• Ecosystem services such as stormwater flood protection and soil stabilisation 

• Filter pollutants from air and water 

• Improves soil quality and infiltration rates of rainfall 

What we do?

• Urban Forest - Planned Annual Urban Forest Planting

• Urban Forest - Request a Street Tree Program

• Urban Forest - Branch Out Tree Giveaway

• Urban Forest Strategy 

What can you do?

• Request a free tree to be planted on the verge

• Apply for Branch Out 2025 - Tree Giveaway for your property. Complete the survey to enter

• Keep established trees that are already on your property

• Plant additional trees on private property

• Provide extra care for street verge trees such as additional watering during hot spells

• Ongoing maintenance of the tree planted on your verge, such as removing weeds

• Report damaged or vandalised trees

• Contact the City if your verge trees look unhealthy

• Consider planting a waterwise verge to complement the verge tree

• Visit your local parks and enjoy the trees

• Attend a community tree planting day

• Get involved! Join a volunteer bush care or friends group

• Take part in the Native Plants for Residents giveaway

Frequently Asked Questions

• Urban Forest Brochure

• Urban Forest Flyer

• Urban Forest Suggested tree species