Dubai to plant 1.5 million trees and build 120 parks by 2030
The AED 4bn Blue and Green Spaces Roadmap 2030: 120 new parks, about 1.5 million trees, more than 15 coastal projects and three new public beaches a year. What greenery and beach access do to housing values.
Dubai has approved the Blue and Green Spaces Roadmap 2030, an AED 4 billion programme: 120 new parks and around 1.5 million trees by 2030. How the document frames the task matters more than the numbers themselves: parks, beaches and public spaces are to be treated as infrastructure on par with roads and the metro.
What is planned
- Walkable neighbourhood parks — not one grand park for the city, but many small ones near homes.
- Hundreds of sports and recreation spaces: running and cycling tracks, activity zones, family and children's playgrounds.
- More than 15 major coastal projects and three new public beaches every year.
- Beachfront services up more than 400% and beach capacity up 150%.
The programme sits inside the Dubai 2040 master plan and the quality-of-life strategy — meaning it has a deadline and an owner, not just an intention.
Greenery and price: an underrated link
A park within walking distance is one of the few factors whose effect on housing values shows a consistently positive sign in studies worldwide. In Dubai it comes with a local twist: greenery here does not grow by itself. Every tree means irrigation, and irrigation means desalinated water and a bill for it.
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Hence a practical consequence for buyers. Greenery inside a private development is maintained by the community and sits in the service charge. A city park outside the gate is maintained by the city. Two identical buildings — one beside a public park, one with its own internal garden — impose different annual costs on their owners for the same quality of life.
About the public beaches
Three new public beaches a year is a figure worth holding in mind when buying on the water. The value of a front-row property combines the view with access to the sea; where the city opens the shoreline to everyone, that access stops being one building's privilege. For an owner this cuts both ways: the district becomes livelier and more expensive, while any single development's exclusivity declines.
Based on Dubai Municipality data and the Blue and Green Spaces Roadmap 2030.