Lawn mowing in Frankston North
Frankston North began as the Pines Forest Estate: the Housing Commission built it on 120 hectares cut out of the State Frankston Pine Plantation after the fire of the 1955-56 summer, and the first stage was finished in 1957.
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We're recruiting mowers for Frankston North right now, across the Frankston / Peninsula cluster. List your lawn and you'll be first in line when it opens.
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Mow in Frankston North?
Free to join, 10% + GST* only on jobs you win, and founding mowers pay 0% for 3 months from their first paid job, then 10% + GST locked until 31 Dec 2027. A typical Frankston North lawn guides at $100–$145 a cut.
Claim a founding seatBefore you list: three things worth telling a mower about a Frankston North lawn
- Give the street. The southern streets went in from 1957 and the second wave from 1965 lies east toward the freeway, so the two halves of the estate are different ages.
- Front fences on the estate are low or open, so the gate that matters is the side one: give its width, and say whether the back lawn is reached that way.
- Eucalypts on the verge drop bark and leaf onto the strip. If you want it blown off and cut with the lawn, say so on the listing.
Frankston North lawn mowing questions
How much does lawn mowing cost in Frankston North?+
A 180 m² lawn in Frankston North works out at $100-$145 a cut in our model. The estate houses are single-storey and set in gardens, so if yours has grass front and back the bid is priced on the aerial measurement of both.
Does Frankston council mow the nature strip in Frankston North?+
No. Where a strip adjoins a private property the council does not mow or spray it, and residents provide the basic maintenance. The street trees, mostly eucalypts here, are the council's to plant, prune and remove. Tick the strip as well and it is cut on the same trip.
Do the street trees matter for a Frankston North lawn?+
They do. The verges carry eucalypts planted irregularly, several species of flowering eucalyptus among them, and pines went back in across the suburb in 2016-17. Bark and leaf under a gum need blowing off before a cut, and a tree over the front lawn changes how the grass grows beneath it. Say what stands over yours when you list.
About Frankston North
After the 1860 Land Act, 1,370 acres of the old Balleymarong run were set aside for the preservation and growth of timber. The Clarke Reserve became the State Frankston Pine Plantation in 1909, and Pinus radiata did best of the million-odd trees planted. Fire burnt much of it in the summer of 1955-56. Then 120 hectares were excised in 1956, and the Commission planned the estate in neighbourhood units of about 500 houses to each primary school, with limited access roads. The first streets were in the south, Pine Street, Plantation Street and Forest Drive; other streets took the names of pines, Monterey, Radiata, Corsican and Aleppo among them. Excelsior Drive was the northern edge until a second wave from 1965 built east to the line of the proposed freeway.
The houses date from the 1960s and 70s, mostly single-storey brick veneer under cement-tile roofs, some conite in the older western streets, low-scale and set in gardens behind low or open fencing. Kerbs and footpaths run both sides of the street. Street trees are mainly eucalypts planted irregularly, several species of flowering eucalyptus went into the verges, and pines were replanted across the suburb in 2016-17. The Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve, 108 hectares, keeps heathland of silver-leaf stringybark and black sheoak and the old survey point at Trig Point; a proposal to mine sand there was defeated in the 1970s. The plantation and the heath say nothing about your own lot, so tell the mower how it drains.
Frankston North is Frankston City Council. Where a nature strip adjoins a private property the council neither mows nor sprays it; the resident does the mowing and sweeping and pays for any planting, and the trees on the strip are the council's to prune or remove. Grass clippings go in the light-green food and garden bin, emptied on the fortnight the recycling stays in, 70 kg to a bin; it is opt-in and the charge is not published. Monterey Boulevard runs west to east through the centre, and the Monterey high school site of 1967 is now Monterey Community Park.