The Brimbank Oases concept is a place-based response /approach to the need implement climate change mitigation and adaptation plan – from the street level through to precinct scale and ultimately through replication, the municipal scale.

Through strategic coordination of effort, resilience will be addressed in manageable chunks of a few city blocks at a time. For example, a ‘superblock’ of twenty hectares may have an stormwater irrigated area at its core with a significant raingarden, and be surrounded by intensive street WSUD treatments including raingardens and tree pits. Interventions on private property will also be pursued relating to renewable energy, thermal comfort, etc.

The first project will take place around Dempster Park, Sunshine North. At this site connectivity will be created with proximate educational facilities including the enabling of public access, as open space, to Sunshine College grounds. Dempster Park sits in an identified urban ‘hot spot’ and so this project will address the need to ‘green and cool’ the area. The oases concept may be proposed as a key implementation approach for Brimbank City Council’s Climate Emergency Plan. The next oases projects are slated for Delahey and for Keilor Downs.

This Brimbank Oases project is Action 23 in the Maribyrnong IWM Forum Strategic Directions Statement.