Lawn mowing in Coolaroo

About Coolaroo

Building began in 1966 and the first primary school opened in 1967, then a brewery in 1968, and Greer Industries moved out from Richmond in 1979. A later state primary became St Mary's Coptic Orthodox College. Until the late 1990s the suburb reached past the railway and Pascoe Vale Road into what is now Meadow Heights. Coolaroo station on the Craigieburn line opened on 6 June 2010, almost 40 years after a station was first planned; Upfield station sits on Barry Road at the border with Campbellfield, and four bus routes run through. No shopping centre sits inside the suburb; shops are in Dallas, at Meadow Heights or in Broadmeadows.

The Commission held the land for fifteen years before it built, and the houses date from 1966 on. Pascoe Vale Road is the western boundary, the Roxburgh Park hotel marks the northern one and a hotel-motel on Barry Road the southern. There is a large reserve with a community hall and ovals. Say when the lawn was last cut and how far it has got away.

Nature strips in Hume are the resident's on all sides of the property, by the Residential Nature Strip Policy re-adopted in March 2024: mowing, edging, weeding and litter pick-up, regularly. The council makes a strip safe when it has to and reinstates soil only; street trees are planted and removed by council and by nobody else. No grass height is written into the policy. The food and garden bin, bright green lid, went to every household from 1 July 2024 inside the standard waste charge, emptied fortnightly, sized 140 L or 240 L.