Lawn mowing in Pascoe Vale South

About Pascoe Vale South

The land lay inside John Pascoe Fawkner's Pascoeville, farm-subdivided from 1840 and cut into land-boom blocks in the 1880s, but the growth waited for the tram. The First World War left street names, Gallipoli, Heliopolis, Balmoral, Princes and Royal, and prefabricated houses went up in Gallipoli Parade and Heliopolis Street in 1948. A Methodist church opened in Cumberland Road in 1939 and the primary school in 1954. Wentworth House and Lyndhurst Hall at 46 Walhalla Street are both on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Moonee Ponds Creek is the western boundary, with Strathmore across it and the Tullamarine Freeway alongside; Coburg lies east, Brunswick West south and Pascoe Vale north, from O'Hea Street to Moreland Road. The shops are at Bell Street and Melville Road, tram 58 runs from the Bell Street terminus to the city and Pascoe Vale station is the nearest. A lot on the creek side may slope toward the creek. How the lawn sits, and whether the back is reached by a side path or straight through the house, are the two things to add.

The strip outside a Pascoe Vale South house is not council's to mow. Merri-bek leaves the strip in front of a private property to the resident, mowing, weeding, edging and litter included, and steps in only where a strip has become a hazard. Sweeping the clippings into the gutter counts as littering under its rules. Garden and food waste share the lime-green-lid organics bin, weekly on the regular collection day, 120 L or 240 L, charged on the rates; rubbish is due to go fortnightly from July 2027 with the organics bin staying weekly.