Lawn mowing in Brunswick West

About Brunswick West

The Whitby homestead of about 1850 on Whitby Street is on the Australian and Victorian heritage registers, and the first primary school of 1888 stood west of Hoffman's brickyard. The Hopetoun Estate of 1892 in the north-west did not sell. The Moonee Vale area was settled under the State Closer Settlement Scheme in 1902 with about 200 residents and cut into the present allotments in the 1940s and early 1950s. The post office opened on 10 March 1913, the Melville Road tram opened between 1925 and 1927 with shops along it from 1926, and the schools came in a run: Catholic primary 1911, Brunswick North 1925, Brunswick South West 1927, Brunswick North West 1929.

A front patch, a back yard down a side path, or a shared strip in front of a block of flats: name which. Linear parks run along Moonee Ponds Creek, some of them reached only by crossing the Tullamarine Freeway, and the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail and the Capital City Trail pass through. Dunstan Reserve has two ovals; Brunswick Central Parklands and two small reserves on an unused railway reservation are the rest. Shops are on Grantham Street and Melville Road, with Union Square on Grantham Street, and tram 58 runs down Melville Road.

Nature strips in Merri-bek are not council-maintained where they front private property; weeding, mowing, edging and litter fall to the resident, and council acts only on a hazard, measured in its guidelines as more than 50 mm off the kerb or footpath. Clippings blown or swept into the road or a drain are littering. The organics bin, lime-green lid, takes food and garden waste weekly on the normal collection day, in the 120 L standard bin or a 240 L, and is charged through the rates; rubbish is set to become fortnightly from July 2027 while the organics bin stays weekly.