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Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2827Jan 26, 2011 9:21 pm we are selling and moving to the coast, if you know someone who wishes to buy in Mernda Villages, please visit this link http://www.realestate.com.au/property-h ... -107083288 Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2828Jan 26, 2011 9:47 pm ![]() Just went for a run/walk around Mernda Villages and was laughing to myself about how some people have treated their naturestrips... from rock gardens, to jungles of weeds, to the people that planted a forest of kangaroo paws which got me thinking about what would be worth doing on mine... Before I got any bright ideas - I decided to check the council's viewpoint on planting... The following was on the Whittlesea council website ----------------- Naturestrip maintenance Residents and owners of vacant urban land must ensure the grass, weeds and scrub on their naturestrip do not grow to more than 30cm high. Fire authorities recommend keeping the grass shorter than 10cm to minimise the chance of fire passing from the road onto your property. Residents must not plant anything on the naturestrip except grass. Well take a drive along Langdon Drive. One of them had silverbeet or cabbages in there. But someone complained, so now they just have a garden, which is against council rules. We are lucky, we got turf as part of our package in the garden and now it looks really nice. But the naturestrip was never laid properly by PMG and they just threw seed everywhere on top of weeds. So we have over time thrown soil we used to do the back and mulch and it looks ok. Oh and if you are looking for a local guy for lawns, pm me, as my son, who has just started up a second job is doing lawns and general garden maintenance is keen to get new customers. He will do naturestrips only as well as whole lawns, lives near South Morang, so you wont get hit with travel charge and he is a lovely kid (30 lol) but very hard working. He has just had his first baby and they are saving like mad to buy their first house. He did horiculture at Parkville, so he knows a bit about planting and he also does garden beds and simple landscape stuff. Fat chance of getting some action from council re fire notices if a lawn goes over 30cms. I have been dealing with the lovely fire officer at Whittlesea for months trying to get the formerly known as Renaissance Rise cut. They have been served several fire notices over a 5 month period but have done nothing about it. The land has now changed ownership from the out of business Babcock and Brown to their sister company RCL who renamed the area to Mint. Now if they could just cut their grass properly, to stop snakes breeding and allow the kangaroos to return,aside from the fire risk, then we would all be happy! The fire officer gave up and sent his contractor around last week to do the minimum cut of a 20 metre fire barrier. Stockland sent out a letter last year requesting owners to tidy up their gardens and naturestrips. The problem is they sold so many landscape packages and recommend stones and mulch instead of turf, due to the drought, that no one wants to buy a lawnmower just to do a bit of land that will next year belong to Council. I think Stockland should bite the bullet and do all the naturestrips. They do some along the visable roads like ours and Mernda Village Drive but the rest look awful if no one looks after them. we are selling and moving to the coast, if you know someone who wishes to buy in Mernda Villages, please visit this link http://www.realestate.com.au/property-h ... -107083288 Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2829Jan 26, 2011 10:04 pm ![]() ![]() I've just discovered that a 2 story house is being built next to the block i'm currently building on. (grrr) Is there any regulation concerning upstairs windows overlooking my bedrooms and bathrooms that I should be aware of? thanks Depends on your estate.. In Laurimar any windows on 2nd level have to be 1.7m high from floor or have permanent obscure glazing. Check the covenants of your estate. There are some more powerful test cases (used to do law) that are stronger than Council or property developer guidelines. The Doug Wade case is the most famous but I think this one has been tested against since. I invite you to take a drive down Callaway Crescent and see the one 2 storey house that sits there surrounded by single storey houses. Idiotic or what! we are selling and moving to the coast, if you know someone who wishes to buy in Mernda Villages, please visit this link http://www.realestate.com.au/property-h ... -107083288 Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2830Jan 27, 2011 7:52 am We have no grass on our property and we still mow the nature strip.... ![]() ![]() I'm about to complain to council about the state of the vacant block behind us....I'm having a major battle with weeds, thanks to the constant bombardment of seeds floating over the fence. I have better things to do than dig out tiny weeds every weekend. ![]() Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2831Jan 27, 2011 11:20 am ^^ Couldnt agree more kek. I think it needs to be looked after, its the window of your house. As we are selling we are having to mow the thing every couple of days. And with all this weather we've had, one minute sunny then rain., the garden is growing like mad! I've never seen as many birds around as this year too. They are breeding like mad now the drought has finished. We have lost a few native plants and trees unfortunately in the backyard. In particular the Firestarters seem to have really lost the plot. But the grass at the front is green as.. And the front facing garden bed is in full bloom. Will be sad when autumn starts as all the flowers will go, but good for the plants to take a rest! we are selling and moving to the coast, if you know someone who wishes to buy in Mernda Villages, please visit this link http://www.realestate.com.au/property-h ... -107083288 Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2832Jan 29, 2011 11:44 am ![]() (if you're not familiar with the area near there on civic dr, when you are close by to the council buildings take a look at the big big power station grid area there, this is where the south morang train station is being built) there will be an underground tunnel that will go from the train station all the way to the shopping centre. Actually the train station is going to be on the same side of the road as the shopping centre (Just north of video ezy). The car park is going across the road towards the power grid. So I don't think there will be an underground tunnel from the station to the shopping centre as there is no road to go under. Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2833Jan 29, 2011 12:07 pm You're right Andy - there will be a pedestrian underpass from the car park to the station though. I wonder what's planned for the vacant land directly in front of the council offices on the north side of McDonalds Rd? Future additional parking? Some sort of commercial use? ![]() I haven't found much in the way of plans or pictures, apart from this artist's impression: There's a video with animations here, although it doesn't really show the station layout very well. It looks as though the railway station, bus interchange and Westfield car park will all be integrated. Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2834Jan 30, 2011 11:11 am So that's the second fire truck travelling down Bridge Inn Road in 20 minutes and no area fire report on the CFA website. Does anyone know where the fire is??? Also, can you understand why the Vic Fire Authorities have not called today a Total Fire Ban day? 40 degrees and a nice wind blowing, what are they thinking? we are selling and moving to the coast, if you know someone who wishes to buy in Mernda Villages, please visit this link http://www.realestate.com.au/property-h ... -107083288 Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2835Jan 30, 2011 11:21 am ![]() So that's the second fire truck travelling down Bridge Inn Road in 20 minutes and no area fire report on the CFA website. Does anyone know where the fire is??? Also, can you understand why the Vic Fire Authorities have not called today a Total Fire Ban day? 40 degrees and a nice wond blowing, what are they thinking? What's it's lights and sirens on? Sunday's are also the weekly get together day for the CFA people so they often go cruising or do training stuff 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2836Jan 30, 2011 11:22 am oh they also attend car accidents so it might be that 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2837Jan 30, 2011 11:22 am ![]() Also, can you understand why the Vic Fire Authorities have not called today a Total Fire Ban day? 40 degrees and a nice wond blowing, what are they thinking? probably because of all the rain.. everything is green.. so not much fuel around for a fire.. Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2838Jan 30, 2011 11:30 am ![]() ![]() So that's the second fire truck travelling down Bridge Inn Road in 20 minutes and no area fire report on the CFA website. Does anyone know where the fire is??? Also, can you understand why the Vic Fire Authorities have not called today a Total Fire Ban day? 40 degrees and a nice wond blowing, what are they thinking? What's it's lights and sirens on? Sunday's are also the weekly get together day for the CFA people so they often go cruising or do training stuff Sirens on. And in training runs they don't use Sirens. Just wondered as there was no notification on CFA's site as to the reason for the call out. I do find at times their site is a little lacking. we are selling and moving to the coast, if you know someone who wishes to buy in Mernda Villages, please visit this link http://www.realestate.com.au/property-h ... -107083288 Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2839Jan 30, 2011 11:31 am ![]() oh they also attend car accidents so it might be that Hope not. we are selling and moving to the coast, if you know someone who wishes to buy in Mernda Villages, please visit this link http://www.realestate.com.au/property-h ... -107083288 Re: Ladies and Gents, step right up! Mernda & Doreen Residen 2840Jan 30, 2011 12:12 pm As Lisa says, they're often first on scene for accidents - might be a car or could be something else. Still should be logged on the website under "other". I'm pretty sure all call-outs get logged. ![]() I'm surprised it's not total fire ban too. The CFA issued a warning last week that we're in for extreme bushfire conditions due to the rain - because the wet weather has promoted extra growth of "fuel". ![]() Do I need to concern about this pattern of crack? Is this crack showing some signs of bigger problems? 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