Roof Top Gardens
Combine the convenience of City living with the benefits of private outdoor space through incorporating a green roof into your City home.
Green roofs are landscaped rooftop gardens that can include planted areas and for entertaining and domestic use. Importantly, green roofs can make an environmentally friendly contribution to your home, your neighbourhood and the City.
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BENEFITS OF A GREEN ROOF |
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Improved Lifestyle |
Extra living and entertainment space in the great outdoors, with privacy and safety built in, but no lawn to mow |
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Reduced Costs |
A green roof provides improved insulation, thereby reducing power bills for heating and cooling |
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Improved Property Values |
An attractive and functional outdoor living space increases the floor area and appeal of your property, which contributes to an improved market value |
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Residents Comfort |
A green roof can keep a home cooler in summer and warmer in winter and helps insulate your home from outside noise |
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Natural Attraction |
City living, with the benefits of an aesthetically pleasing garden and increased open space. Green roofs with native vegetation can also provide habitat for native animals such as birds and butterflies |
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Water Conservation |
Rainfall is retained by the roof structure and used to water the rooftop garden, reducing potable water consumption and runoff into the stormwater system. Runoff water quality is improves by plants filtering out pollutants from stormwater |
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Improved Air Quality |
Plants reduce greenhouse gases by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen and removing airborne pollution, so residents can breathe cleaner air |
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Reduced Air Temperatures |
Hard surfaces in cities absorb and reflect heat leading to increased summer temperatures (the heat island effect). Plants on green roofs prevent heat gain and have a cooling effect contributing to cooler summer temperatures for residents, neighbours and the City environment |
A green roof information brochure is available from Adelaide City Council. For more information please contact the Adelaide City Council Customer Centre on 8203 7203
