Lawn mowing in Hadfield

About Hadfield

Development came after the Second World War, between Fawkner and Glenroy, inside West Street, South Street and Boundary Road, Sydney Road and Hilton Street. North Park primary opened in Exeter Street in 1964, the same year as Hadfield High, which ran until 1992 and whose site is now the Pascoe Vale Gardens retirement village. Fawkner station on the Upfield line lies inside Hadfield. The Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park at 1817 Sydney Road is on the Victorian Heritage Register. Shops are on West Street, the main strip, and on South, North and East streets. The name is Rupert Hadfield's, a president of Broadmeadows Shire Council.

Merlynston Creek runs through the suburb. Roads here were once prone to becoming quagmires, and a retarding basin was built on Box Forest Road to reduce water seepage; that is the history of the ground, not a report on your block. The lots are post-war, marketed from the late 1940s and finished, roads and all, by 1968. Tell the mower whether the low corner of the yard stays wet through winter and where the side access is.

The nature strip outside a Hadfield house is not something Merri-bek maintains. Mowing, weeding, edging and litter are the resident's, and blowing or sweeping the clippings into the road or the drain counts as littering. Council comes in only where a strip is a hazard, which its guidelines put at a surface more than 50 mm out of level with the kerb or footpath. The food and garden organics bin, lime-green lid, is emptied every week on the usual day, 120 L standard or 240 L, and is paid for through the waste charge on rates.