Ku-ring-gai Green Grid Strategy

The Green Grid Strategy identifies walking and cycling routes, connecting Local Centres and Neighbourhood Centres with nearby parks and natural areas, walking track connections from the St Ives Showground Precinct with existing national park walking trails and improvements to biodiversity connections and green infrastructure.

The network hierarchy of routes from large to small scale is as follows.

Regional connections - these are the predominant North-South corridors following the Pacific Highway and North Shore rail line and east-west links encompassing Ryde Rd and Mona Vale Road.

Suburban connections intersect suburban boundaries and interface with neighbouring councils.

Local link connections are the more small-scale interventions that highlight local points of interest and fill the gaps in suburban connections.

Trail connections are the more ecologically focused routes directly connecting existing trails through bushland.

The Ku-ring-gai Green Grid Strategy has been developed concurrently with the Ku ring gai Urban Forest Strategy. The Urban Forest Strategy is examining the opportunities for expansion of Ku-ring-gai’s urban canopy cover, and the projects implemented as part of the Green Grid will help to facilitate this.

The final Ku-ring-gai Green Grid Strategy was adopted at the Ordinary Meeting of Council in June 2025.

View the Ku-ring-gai Green Guide Strategy(PDF, 19MB).

Enquiries

Fleur Rees, Senior Landscape Architect 9424 0000.