Australia's Hottest Suburbs | Urban Design

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Australia's Hottest Suburbs have a worrying lack of tree coverage.

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[theskeptic]

The Ipswich council allows bare earth clearing, the developers come in and completely destroy everything, hundreds of acres of bushland flattened, it’s disgraceful .

[stargazer]

We moved into the suburbs from a rural area. What a shock. We moved into a rental with no trees, neighbours each side have large oak trees and out the back lots of different types in the back neighbours yards which have mostly been cut down for a pool and due to solar panels position. This is by far the worst house I have ever lived in. It's like an oven in spring, summer it's a sauna. This is our last lease here.

[jennysingleton]

Surprised how little people understand about this. We live in an older place with high ceilings. There are two huge Moreton Bay Fig Trees, one to the east and one west + the neighbours higher house gives shade to the north. Cool in winter, but in summer when people walk in they usually comment how nice my air con is - when I say I don't have it often people do not believe me, i've actually had to tell people to show me where it is and they have seriously walked through the house looking for the air con to show me to be a liar. The temperature inside the house is up to 10 degrees cooler than the temperature outside on a summer day. People could substantially lower heating and cooling costs by designing around this. We don't even have insulation. You can also utilise micro climates in the garden to extend growing season and grow wider varieties of foods/plants - I grow apples and bananas in the same garden in Sydney. Really worth the effort to learn about.

[tamborinevillage]

Joni Mitchell called it first... "put them in a tree museum and charged all the people a dollar and a half to see them."...Yellow Taxi

[Siegetower]

Maybe in these development suburbs you don't let Lend Lease et al CUT DOWN ALL THE forking trees that were there before. And return to 1/4 acre blocks where people can actually live, not merely exist.

[cathymadsen]

In Ipswich they just bulldozed the bush for those houses. I use to go there last year every two weeks and stay with a friend and some visit I would not recognise the street because it changed so much.

In Bundaberg you need to put landscaping into your building plans for businesses. I had to include my landscaping plans into council to help get approval for my "unusual " construction because it is a Colourbond steel "shed" house.

[becsterbrisbane]

And on a more serious note, this could lead to desertification- the hotter it at what's happened to Beijing in the last couple of decades. We're already a desert country and really don't need any more. Beijing's booming infrastructure and endless building of ring roads now has lead to the great sandstorms blowing in March and covering the city in orange dust, it's disgusting. With what tiny amount of land we have in Australia, this really needs to be given a high priority!

[Siegetower]

Bayside Council is amalgamated - Botany Council and Rockdale Council. Neither council were particularly efficient spenders of ratepayers money. Their area also takes in part of the Triangle of Fail.

[icmull]

Lets be honest it isnt the Australians that want tree free areas... When I worked in land sales asians would pay less to be next to a park or bushland, ie parks and bushland are seen as a disadvantage meanwhile Aussies would pay a 20%+ premium for the land. Asians also requested to build their house covering the entire lot and were upset when they were told they couldnt, theyd just concrete the rest of the block. You probably think it is racist or something but its just the way it is they dont particularly care about trees. Most developers now force owners to put landscaping and trees out the front and you always have to fight with non-aussies for not doing it.
(Ill add this definitely doesn't include all asians, for example Vietnamese usually love gardening.)

[timfudy]

most of these newer developments seem to in low lying places which makes it even worse. The designs are all wrong, that's why they had the "Queenslanders" and the open, raised homes in Darwin. ridiculous town planning to allow concrete boxes to be built everywhere.

[lukewarm]

Aircon makes you soft get rid of it... buy a fan

[objectivesovereignty]

So did you plant some more trees in there place ? no ?

[dcocz]

Heise - come on, you take down an old tree did you plant another? Its so weird to here English towns by name when you refer to OZ. Ipswitch?? Do you have a Liverpool?

[lukewarm]

Ask any Greek, 😁😁Concrete is much better then bloody trees,

Congrats on 20k Florian and Rachel

[farqitol]

If you live in a high rise apartment you can see the trees from your balcony.
If you can see anything other than your neighbours washing.

We're stuffed