Lawn mowing in Kingsville

About Kingsville

The suburb is a right-angled triangle of 0.7 square kilometres, Williamstown Road on the east, Somerville Road on the south and Geelong Road as the hypotenuse, between West Footscray and Yarraville. Kingsville once meant the whole of West Yarraville; the land south of Somerville Road became Yarraville, the north became West Footscray, South Kingsville kept the old name, and this piece stayed a locality of Footscray West until it was gazetted as a suburb in 1999. The houses that filled it around the First World War are a century old, and a lawn of that age has been shaped by a hundred years of fences and paths; say what grass is in it now.

The shopping strip is on Somerville Road with an Anglican church, and the primary school had 580 pupils in 2014. Corpus Christi Catholic primary and a linear park along Stony Creek lie just outside the boundary, so a creek-side block is the neighbouring suburb's. Buses 431, 223, 472, 411 and 412 run the boundary roads and the nearest stations are on the Sunbury and Werribee-Williamstown lines. At 24 m the ground is low; what your lawn does in a wet August is the thing to add.

Kingsville is Maribyrnong City Council. The strip is the household's to mow, weed, edge and keep free of litter; the council decides what tree goes on it, plants it and maintains it, and residents may not plant or take one out. Grass needs no permit, a planted strip needs a free one and stays under 80 cm. Garden waste and food scraps go in the green-lid bin, which the rates cover on a house or on a block of no more than four units, 240 L unless a 120 L is requested, emptied every second week opposite recycling; bigger unit buildings are still without it.