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The new grant program supports metropolitan councils to undertake projects that will deliver greening outcomes and that incorporate water-sensitive and biodiversity-sensitive urban design principles.

Successful projects include a sustainable upgrade of a Port Adelaide residential street, continuation of biodiversity corridors in Pasadena and Holdfast Bay, and a green transformation of four intersecting streets within Renown Park.

A great example is a City of Port Adelaide Enfield project that will create a cooler, greener and more resilient streetscape on a residential street in Queenstown.

This project will combine water-sensitive design through permeable paving, greening by planting canopy trees, shrubs and understorey, and biodiversity-sensitive design through the creation of a vegetation corridor.

To view more details about the recipients of the Cooler, Greener, Wilder Grants Program head to Green Adelaide.

The successful projects are:

• City of Port Adelaide Enfield – A greener, cooler, and more resilient streetscape, Victoria St, Queenstown
• City of Holdfast Bay – The final piece of the Holdfast Bay Warriparri biodiversity corridor, Shannon Avenue
• City of Marion – Alawoona Reserves raingarden, Mitchell Park
• City of Charles Sturt – Living streets, Renown Park
• City of Mitcham – Smart stormwater and biodiversity, Pasadena
• City of Adelaide – The Creek of Cultural Connection, eastern parklands
• City of Salisbury – Railway corridor rehabilitation, Pooraka