Lawn mowing in Meadow Heights

About Meadow Heights

The Commission had already built the Coolaroo estate next door between 1966 and 1972. Westmeadows Heights primary opened in 1977 and Bethal primary in 1979, and by 1982 the area was counted as part of Coolaroo. The Urban Land Authority bought 230 ha in 1986. The shopping centre opened in November 1993, the post office on 6 March 1995, and the streets were completed through the 1990s. Coolaroo station, to the south-east, opened in 2010. Say which decade your street was built.

Somerton Road is the northern boundary, Pascoe Vale Road the eastern, Barry Road the southern, and Broadmeadows Valley Park the western. The suburb sits south-east of Greenvale Reservoir, where the land gradually rises northwards from Broadmeadows, and the name says the same thing. The Shankland Wetlands are on the park side. How much of that rise a particular front lawn carries is something only the listing can say.

Hume City Council maintains no nature strips in front of houses. Its policy has the resident doing the regular mowing, edging and weeding, and council doing works only to make a hazard safe, such as a sight line at a corner or a blocked footpath. Nature-strip plantings are capped at 400 mm in the landscaping guidelines; grass itself carries no figure. Every household got a green-lid food and garden bin with a kitchen caddy between April and June 2024, emptied fortnightly on the alternate week to recycling, and the cost sits inside the standard waste charge.