Lawn mowing in Maidstone

About Maidstone

Four ages of lawn share the suburb. The weatherboard, brick Art Deco and Californian bungalow houses of the 1920s to 1940s came with the tram; concrete houses were built in the late 1940s for returned servicemen; the Housing Commission estate, mainly south of Ballarat Road and running into Braybrook, added its share of the 2,500-plus dwellings put up across the two suburbs in the 1950s and 60s; and from the early 1990s factory sites were remade as residential estates. A bungalow lawn can be close to a century old and has been reshaped by every owner. A 1990s estate lawn has had thirty-odd years to root. Say which you have and what grows in it.

The river is the western border. Medway Golf Club, laid out in 1936 with the club formed in 1946, holds 98 acres beside it, and Raleigh's works site is Pipemakers Park and the Living Museum of the West. Three public reserves are inside the boundary, Highpoint is immediately north, tram route 82 serves the northern streets, and a tram depot was completed in 2025. Footscray West Primary opened in 1915, Footscray North in 1921 and Maribyrnong College in 1958. The ground is at 38 m and that is all the histories give; a block near the river or the golf course may sit lower and wetter than one up on Ballarat Road, and you are the one who knows.

Maidstone is Maribyrnong City Council. The nature strip is mown, weeded, edged and kept clear of litter by the household, and the street tree is chosen, planted and looked after by the council, which does not allow residents to plant or remove one. Planting a strip instead of grassing it takes a free permit and plants held under 80 cm. Clippings and food scraps share the green-lid bin, 240 L unless you ask for a 120 L, fortnightly on the week between recycling weeks, paid for in the rates at houses and at unit developments of four or fewer. Larger unit blocks are not on the service yet.