Croydon Conservation Society

Your Community link to Local Conservation

• Welcome
  • CCS our Strategic Statement
  • 1964 to 2014 Golden Jubilee CCS
  • Join or contact us
  • Maroondah’s conservation history
• Chemicals around home
  • Treated Pine CCS tests a first in the World.
  • is your backyard fit for vegies?
  • Not treated pine? the alternative…
  • Zero/ Roundup weedicide
• Local Town Planning
  • Response to Croydon Major Activity Centre draft
  • Croydon Central re-development
  • I want to object
  • Our green spaces help us
  • Hill tops in Maroondah
  • Tree Removal & Habitat corridors
• Trees
  • Illegal tree removal
  • SCHOOLS Book our tree..free
  • Downloadable Letter ..What trees do
  • Tree Value
  • CCS mapping trees of significance
  • trees and creatures
    • Frog census
    • Want Frogs?
• Environment
  • Tarralla wetlands 1999
  • Snap, send solve
  • how a weed spreads
  • Local Air Quality monitor
  • plastic rings and creatures
  • Wildlife & Birds
  • Global Warming
  • Fracking…explained
• Conservation topics
  • Possum boxes
  • Critters of Maroondah mug shots
  • Ringwood Lake
  • Conservation Hero
  • Eating healthy
  • School Trees poster
  • 24 Hr Wildlife help
  • Hello Possums
  • Polluted local creek?
  • No bread for ducks
  • Kittens & Puppies
  • I want a habitat garden
• VOLUNTEER
  • Other local conservation/ environment groups
  • Action Groups
  • Reserves – join in planting

Hill tops in Maroondah

In 2004 a Council committee, in which CCS was involved, commissioned a consultant to describe the Neighbourhood Character Study of Maroondah. Fast forward to 2025 and the State premier has removed this part of planning from all Councils across greater Melbourne. However our ridgelines are still an important feature of Maroondah. We do not want to be roof tops on the hills, when viewed from Mt Dandenong.

Since 2011, a whopping 117 hectares of previously “garden Maroondah” has gone under developments and impervious paving like concrete driveways!

We still need serious quantities of canopy trees to achieve a 30 % shade cover to prevent overheating in severe hot weather. An overlay, the Environmentally Sensitive Overlay to is to protect our 3 ridges running across our municipality, the main Wicklow ridge, the Ruskin Secondary ridge and the Loughnans ridge in Ringwood.

• About the Croydon Conservation Society

  Croydon Conservation Society is a non profit community volunteer group, who since 1964 have been actively “conserving” the best of our local environment for us all to share, as well as planting native species in many locations to keep us and our local native inhabitants alive and flourishing!
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