Hume City Council, Moonee Valley City Council and Merri-bek City Council

Lawn mowing in Melbourne's north-western suburbs

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The north-west runs from the inter-war streets of Essendon and Pascoe Vale, across the Moonee Ponds Creek to Broadmeadows and Glenroy, and out through the Hume growth corridor to Craigieburn and Sunbury. It is basalt-plain country the whole way, and the same clay rules apply as in the north.

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Every suburb in north-western suburbs

30 suburbs, A to Z, with postcodes. Live means verified mowers are bidding today; Recruiting means mowers are being signed up in that cluster; Not yet means it's mapped and opens when enough locals join.

Mowers wanted: Hume / Moonee Valley and Brimbank / Melton

A suburb opens when several neighbouring mowers cover it - one mower spread across twenty suburbs is a phone book; six mowers working four suburbs is a market. These are the clusters being signed up here now.

Hume / Moonee Valley

Mowers joined: 4
Lawns waiting: 1
Offer closes: 31 Dec

Craigieburn, Roxburgh Park, Broadmeadows, Glenroy, Essendon, Greenvale, Mickleham, Kalkallo, Gladstone Park, Tullamarine, Westmeadows, Meadow Heights, Airport West, Avondale Heights, Niddrie, Aberfeldie, Essendon North, Dallas, Coolaroo, Attwood, Hadfield, Pascoe Vale South.

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Brimbank / Melton

Mowers joined: 1
Lawns waiting: 0
Offer closes: 31 Dec

Diggers Rest, Delahey, Kings Park, Albanvale, Kealba, Keilor Park, Sunshine North, Albion, Ardeer, Burnside, Fraser Rise, Aintree, Rockbank, Thornhill Park, Cobblebank, Weir Views, Melton South, Melton West, Kurunjang, Brookfield, Harkness, Strathtulloh.

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Nature strips and green bins here

What each council in north-western suburbs expects of the strip out the front and where the clippings go, read off the council's own page.

Council	Nature strip and garden waste	Checked
Brimbank City Council	West of the Albion-Jacana railway: Brimbank leaves the nature strip to residents and property owners, relying on the 'goodwill and established community expectation' that they mow, weed and keep it hazard-free; council plants and prunes the street trees, and bans synthetic turf, paving, rocks, granitic sand and plants over 50 cm on a strip. Its 150 mm grass rule applies to vacant land, not strips. The food and garden bin is fortnightly and opt-in, $103.30 a year for 140 L or $115.49 for 240 L, until a mandatory four-bin system from 1 July 2027 makes it weekly for everyone. East of it: Moonee Valley's local law requires owners to keep the property, nature strip included, free of long grass and combustible material, with grass and weeds under 200 mm from ground level; officers inspect before summer and council can clear a strip and recover its costs. Street trees are planted, maintained and pruned by council only. The green-lid FOGO bin takes food and garden waste fortnightly, alternating with recycling, and the council says it will stay fortnightly until further notice.	12 Sep 2026
City of Hume	Hume's Residential Nature Strip Policy (POL/194, re-adopted 12 March 2024) makes the resident or owner responsible for regular mowing, edging, weeding and litter removal on the nature strip on every side of the property; council only does works to make safe, reinstates soil rather than turf, and plants and removes the street trees itself. The policy carries no grass-height figure; the landscaping guidelines cap planted vegetation on a strip at 400 mm for sight lines. The food-and-garden bin, green lid, is fortnightly, 140 L or 240 L, and has been included in the standard waste charge for every household since 1 July 2024.	27 Sep 2026
City of Merri-bek	Council does not maintain nature strips in front of private property; the resident mows, weeds and edges. Blowing clippings into the road or drain is a littering offence. Light-green-lid organics bin (food and garden) emptied weekly.	12 Sep 2026
City of Moonee Valley	Moonee Valley's local law requires owners to keep the property, nature strip included, free of long grass and combustible material, with grass and weeds under 200 mm from ground level; officers inspect before summer and council can clear a strip and recover its costs. Street trees are planted, maintained and pruned by council only. The green-lid FOGO bin takes food and garden waste fortnightly, alternating with recycling, and the council says it will stay fortnightly until further notice.	27 Sep 2026
Hume City Council	Hume's Residential Nature Strip Policy (POL/194, re-adopted 12 March 2024) makes the resident or owner responsible for regular mowing, edging, weeding and litter removal on the nature strip on every side of the property; council only does works to make safe, reinstates soil rather than turf, and plants and removes the street trees itself. The policy carries no grass-height figure; the landscaping guidelines cap planted vegetation on a strip at 400 mm for sight lines. The green-lid food and garden bin is fortnightly, 140 L or 240 L, and has been included in the standard waste charge for every household since 1 July 2024.	12 Sep 2026
Merri-bek City Council	Merri-bek does not maintain nature strips in front of private property: residents mow, weed, trim the edges and pick up litter, and council steps in only where a strip is a hazard (its guidelines treat a surface more than 50 mm off kerb or footpath level as one). The food and garden organics bin, lime-green lid, is collected weekly on the normal day, 120 L standard or 240 L, and is charged through the waste charge on rates; rubbish is planned to go fortnightly from July 2027 with FOGO staying weekly.	12 Sep 2026
Moonee Valley City Council	Moonee Valley's local law requires owners to keep the property, nature strip included, free of long grass and combustible material, with grass and weeds under 200 mm from ground level; officers inspect before summer and council can clear a strip and recover its costs. Street trees are planted, maintained and pruned by council only. The green-lid FOGO bin takes food and garden waste fortnightly, alternating with recycling, and the council says it will stay fortnightly until further notice.	12 Sep 2026
City of Melton and City of Hume	Diggers Rest is split between the City of Melton and the City of Hume, and neither mows nature strips for residents. Melton puts the strip on the resident: regular mowing, weeding, litter, and levelling the surface so it is not a trip hazard. The council does not mow or water nature strips at all, anything other than grass needs a landscaping application first, and it will not repair a strip that vehicles have damaged by parking on it. Hume's Residential Nature Strip Policy (POL/194, re-adopted 12 March 2024) makes the resident or owner responsible for regular mowing, edging, weeding and litter removal on the nature strip on every side of the property; council only does works to make safe, reinstates soil rather than turf, and plants and removes the street trees itself. The policy carries no grass-height figure; the landscaping guidelines cap planted vegetation on a strip at 400 mm for sight lines. The green-lid bin for food and garden waste is fortnightly, 140 L or 240 L, and has been included in the standard waste charge for every household since 1 July 2024.	27 Sep 2026

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