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  • 2022 Street Tree planting - 200 trees

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    Cool Towns - Tweed Shire Urban Forest Program - Hands up if your street could do with some more shade

    Commencing: 24 August 2022

    Completion: 1 November 2022

    200 native trees ready to be planted for residents keen for more trees in their street

    Tweed residents are invited to put their hand up for a native tree to be planted in their street as part of Council’s Cool Towns initiative to increase urban tree canopy cover.

    A total of 200 native trees from Council’s nursery are ready to be planted as street trees in urban areas across the Tweed to improve areas most lacking in shade. Street trees play an important role in reducing the warming effect created by heat-absorbing roads, footpaths and buildings.

    Trees also play a major role in defining the character of a shire and can be used to reduce solar radiation and noise while helping to purify the air. They also help to boost a street with living assets which are both environmentally and aesthetically pleasing.

    Council’s Manager Parks and Active Communities Murray Smith said he was pleased to announce this initiative and hopes it will be well received by the community.

    “Trees are a valuable asset, and we are pleased to be able to plant 200 native trees for our community. We are asking residents to consider if they have a suitable location in their street or in front of their house that would benefit from a tree,” Mr Smith said.

    “Rather than selecting locations that may not be supported, Council would like to work with residents to find the best locations as well as those who are willing to look after and appreciate the trees.

    “We hope this initiative will also encourage the community to plant more of their own trees in the future.”

    Mr Smith said the opportunity this time would be confined to residents in coastal and urban areas of the Tweed, due to the fact 80% of the available tree species being suited to coastal habitats.

    The trees will be planted in public areas, in particular road reserves, and need to be in the ground within the next 8 weeks. Some of the tree species include small-leaved tamarind, tuckeroo, Eumundi ash, weeping lilly pilly, broad leaved lilly pilly and red cottonwood.

    To register your interest, contact Council and log a street tree planting request. Council will assess the site including checking for nearby infrastructure and if suitable, plant a tree in an appropriate location.

    This project follows on from the replanting of street trees in Minjungbal Drive in 2020 as part of the Cool Towns initiative. The initiative aims to strengthen and expand the Tweed’s total canopy coverage in urban areas.

    Request a tree online at tweed.nsw.gov.au/trees-public-land

  • Minjungball Drive tree planting

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    Minjungbal Drive Street Planting Project

    Commencing: 19th October 2020

    Completion: October 2020

    Landscaping works along Minjungbal Drive are planned to begin in 19th October 2020. This project is part of Tweed Shire Council’s Cool Towns Urban Forest Program which aims increase canopy cover across the shire, targeting those areas that currently lack in shade and include our busier areas such as cycleways, footpaths and parks.


    The Cocos Palm (also known as Queen Palm) planted along the centre median strip of Minjungbal Drive is a registered environmental weed which Council has decided to remove and replace for these reasons:


    • Cocos Palms are extremely high maintenance. By replacing the Cocos Palms with native trees we will significantly reduce the maintenance costs of pruning and clearing dead palm fronds, and clearing heavy seeds and fruit which litter the median strip and road surface.
    • To improve environmental impacts. The unripened fruit of Cocos Palms is poisonous and can affect native bats. Removal of the trees will reduce the seeds of this environmental weed spreading widely by wind, birds and animals.
    • Increase amenity and create a cooler, more comfortable environment by increasing canopy cover by planting more native trees.


    Works will include the removal 34 Cocos Palms from the median strip, between Dry Dock Road and Heffron Street, and the replanting of 43 native Brush Box trees and 15 native Eumundi Quondong’s on the median strip. A further 35 Tuckeroos, Water Gums and Cottonwoods will also be planted along the river bank between Dry Dock Road and Heffron Street.

    Native trees are widely recognised for their aesthetic value, the habitat they provide for native fauna and the contribution to the community’s pleasure, comfort and wellbeing including providing increased shade for pedestrians, motorists and parked vehicles.

    Trees also play a major role in defining the character of a shire and can be used to reduce solar radiation in urban areas, reducing noise and purifying the air while providing the street with living assets which are both environmentally and aesthetically pleasing.