Lawn mowing in Moonee Ponds

About Moonee Ponds

Pastoral settlement began in the early 1840s, and the Moonee Ponds Farmers Society of 1848 grew into the Royal Agricultural Society. Mount Alexander Road carried the goldfields traffic. The station closed from 1864 to 1871 before reopening on a government line. The Essendon town hall and Moonee Valley Racecourse both date from 1882, the boom's first year here, Puckle Street's shops from the 1890s, Moonee Ponds West primary from 1888, and Queens Park was laid out in 1897 on ground planted since the 1880s. Trams ran up Mount Alexander Road from 1906, a second primary opened near the racecourse in 1919 and the district hospital in 1980.

Moonee Ponds Creek and the Maribyrnong River bound the suburb, with the two trails along them and Aberfeldie and Ormond parks adjoining. The name goes back to Hoddle's 'Mone Mone Creek' of 1837, a chain of ponds in dry seasons. Queens Park's planting started in the 1880s, a decade before the park itself was formally laid out. The streets are from that same decade. What the gap down the side of your house measures today is for the listing.

Moonee Valley City Council's local law sets the bar at 200 mm. Grass and weeds on the property and its nature strip must stay under that, officers check before summer, and a strip council has to clear is billed back to the owner. Only council staff prune street trees, and residents may not plant a tree on the strip. Gardening the strip needs no permit if it follows the Nature Strip Landscaping Guidelines. The green-lid FOGO bin came to houses between February and April 2024 and is emptied fortnightly, alternating with recycling.