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Last Updated: Thursday, 16 January 2025 15:38
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It's a common and accepted practice that residents/property or business owners maintain nature strips surrounding their property. The maintenance of nature strips (also known as road verges) improves the presentation of the street. Nature strips are located between the property boundary and the edge of road or kerb. They provide open space that allows the safe movement of pedestrians and clear sight lines for vehicles and cyclists as they pass your property.

Our budget allocation for mowing is limited to mowing parklands, road median strips and interconnecting walkways throughout urban areas. We will only mow nature strips that may cause safety concerns to local residents.

Maintaining the nature strip

When mowing the nature strip we encourage you to follow these handy tips:

  1. Clear your nature strip of large sticks, stones and objects that may become projectiles. If objects are flicked up by the mower blades they may cause damage to your own or other people’s property.
  2. Wear enclosed shoes, sunglasses and ear muffs/plugs for protection.
  3. Be sun smart – wear sunscreen, long sleeve shirt, hat and sunglasses.
  4. Mow late in the afternoon - midday sun can stress freshly cut lawn. Cooler conditions in the evening give it time to recover.
  5. Set your mower at the highest preferred setting for your grass type. Only cut approximately 1/3 off the grass.
  6. Make sure your lawn is dry. It makes it easier to mow and dry grass won’t clog up your blades.
  7. Leave grass clippings on the lawn if you mow regularly. The clippings return nutrients into the soil.
  8. If collecting the grass clippings in a catcher, use it as mulch in your garden or compost. Do not use if you have treated your lawn with weed control products.
  9. Be aware of noise times and levels, as below, for mowers and regulated devices (e.g. power tools): 
  • Monday to Saturday

    • 7am–7pm: regulated devices can be used
    • 7pm–7am: no audible* noise permitted
  • Sunday and public holidays

    • 8am–7pm: regulated devices can be used
    • 7pm–8am: no audible* noise permitted

*Audible noise is a noise that can be clearly heard by an occupier of a building which is affected/exposed to the noise. More information can be found in The Environmental Protection Act 1994.