Roof Top Gardens

Roof top garden exampleCombine 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.

BENEFITS OF A GREEN ROOF

Improved Lifestyle

Extra living and entertainment space in the great outdoors, with privacy and safety built in, but no lawn to mow

Reduced Costs

A green roof provides improved insulation, thereby reducing power bills for heating and cooling

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

Residents Comfort

A green roof can keep a home cooler in summer and warmer in winter and helps insulate your home from outside noise

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

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

Improved Air Quality

Plants reduce greenhouse gases by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen and removing airborne pollution, so residents can breathe cleaner air

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

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