Update: Engagement period has closed
Thank you to everyone who provided their feedback on this project. Even though feedback is now closed on this project, you can still register your interest in being part of the future of the Biolink!
We are now reviewing the feedback and will upload a report on what we heard from the community, when it is completed.
What is the plan for the Danks Street Biolink?
We are getting ready to improve the Danks Street Biolink to provide better amenity for our community and to increase and improve the vegetation plantings along the Biolink.
The Danks Street Biolink stretches along the median in the middle of Danks Street, from Mills Street in Middle Park through to Esplanade East in Port Melbourne.
The Biolink was created to improve habitat and support biodiversity, with an initial focus on creating of garden beds and establishing vegetation. External funding now gives us an opportunity to review and improve the vegetation and to install infrastructure such as seating, bicycle hoops and changes to waste areas such as extra bins.
Future vegetation plantings along the Biolink will have an emphasis on rare indigenous plants which can create seed for future plantings across our City.
You can share your thoughts on the Danks Street Biolink in a range of ways before 11:59pm 15 August 2024:
- Use the mapping tool to tell us where you think a feature needs to be added, or to note where you have seen birdlife or other species.
- Use the feedback form to share your thoughts.
- Register your interest in being involved with the Biolink.
Between 2019 - 2024, vegetation was established along the Biolink. This vegetation was delivered in four stages, and lessons learned from each stage delivery informed the design.
Later stages used exclusively locally indigenous species with greater species diversity, and included gaps in planting to allow for informal crossing points.
City of Port Phillip plans to engage with several partner organisations to support the planning of vegetation:
- Raising Rarity, by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Cranbourne), a community-based outreach program designed to engage the wider community to conserve threatened Victorian plant species.
- Westgate Biodiversity Bili Nursery, to provide advice on a more structured planting design to create healthy plant populations which create seed and propagation material to support planting across our City.
We would also love help from the community, to:
- Participate in community planting days
- Help keep track of the flora and fauna you see along the Biolink through community biodiversity surveys
- Register your interest in the creation of a Friends of Danks Street Biolink group.
You can complete the Expression of Interest form if you are interested in being involved!
