Victoria State Government Department of Transport and Planning

The Tap Focus Areas: To inform the development of options and recommendations, the TAP was asked to focus on the following key themes:

• Space and health: the need to allow trees enough space to grow and thrive and to access water (such as locating water and sewer services under the road, permeable pavements, integrated water management techniques and solutions for passive irrigation etc) and the barriers to achieving this.
• Funding: the cost of implementing the measures
  to improve the space and health aspects as noted above, and the cost and responsibility of ongoing care and maintenance.
• Implementation: currently all government organizations (state, local and service authorities) are working independently on this issue with different policies rules and regulations. It is largely up to the developer and their consultants to negotiate an outcome.