Let’s build a beautiful, liveable and accessible city

Streets Alive Yarra is a resident & ratepayer action group with a vision for thriving neighbourhoods where streets are used by people of all ages, irrespective of whether they choose to walk, cycle, use public transport or drive.

Latest posts

Council Plan 2025-29

Streets Alive Yarra offers the following suggestions for the: Council Plan 2025-29 10-Year Financial Plan 10-Year Asset Plan Community Infrastructure Plan Council Plan 2025-29 We suggest that the content of the existing Council Plan 2021-25 should be broadly retained, with adjustments to: accelerate parking reform, to ensure that people who need to drive and park…

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Accelerate GIS

Better decision-making and greater accountability through data Summary Accelerate GIS is a proposal to Council put forward by Streets Alive Yarra – a group of residents who support a more beautiful, liveable, and accessible city. We suggest that Council enrol residents and other volunteers to populate the database of Yarraโ€™s geographic information system (GIS). The…

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The importance of Coppin Street

Coppin Street is a local (non-arterial) street, but has traffic lights at both Swan Street and Bridge Road, allowing safer crossing of these busy arterial roads and connection through to other parts of Richmond. For this reason it is a popular walking route for kids to get to Richmond Primary School, Richmond High School and…

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Some of our supporters


Ali Wirtz

Champion for West Clifton Hill.

Marlou

Champion for Richmond High School.

Denali

Champion for Collingwood College.

Saskia

Lisa Byrne

Champion for Brunswick St North.

John Handley

Champion for Brunswick Street.

Crystal Legacy

Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Melbourne.

Thami Croeser

Urban Planner, RMIT University.