Thread: Nature strip

Who owns it? .... Council
Who is responseable for it? ..... You are
Is it mine? .... No its Crown Land
Is it the councils? ...... Council or Vicroads or Goverment etc
Can I charge council for mowing it...... No
Can they charge me if they mow it?.... Yes under their relevant local laws

However if they didn't tell you that it needed mowing before they did it you have a good argument to use on your councillors.

It may have changed but councils used to only be able to require grass to be cut if it represents a fire hazard and then only once a year.

But they have the power to make local laws and some councils are four letter words.

Pester (Lobby sounds nicer) your local councillor. (they get nervous in the lead up to Council elections and try to placate people who might stand against them)

Yer can't win Oz, mow it and improve the appearance of your property

Im not bothered about who mows it, we get a very nice local bloke to do it.

Its just this question has always bugged me, and well, it quiet in here tonight.

Al

We have a footy ground over the road and when it rains the buggers drive up on the nature strip and park, leaving big furrows which make it hard to mow (and just plain ugly). Somehow their tyres always go flat (in pairs) when they do this, it's a strange phenomenon.

Strange that, Groggy, and even stranger that you should have noticed this phenomenon - One supposes that no matchsticks were involed in any of these incidents, eh?

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Im not bothered about who mows it, we get a very nice local bloke to do it.

Its just this question has always bugged me, and well, it quiet in here tonight.

Al

It's something that's always bugged me too. It's not my land but I have to maintain it???

Oh well, I guess if the Council looked after it they'd only up my rates to pay for mowing it.

Like Echnidna said, you can't win.

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Strange that, Groggy, and even stranger that you should have noticed this phenomenon - One supposes that no matchsticks were involed in any of these incidents, eh?

I've heard, from a friend of a friend's relative's mate, that if you were to chew a bit of paper, and sit it in the little black cap, the tyre slowly deflates. Especially if the cap is only screwed back on two and a half turns. Sometimes, after refilling the tyre, they might even put the cap back on without checking it!

Originally Posted by Groggy

...you were to chew a bit of paper...

... and leave DNA behind so incase of an accident you can be traced.

We own a development site in the Parramatta Council area and we let the yard go a bit while waiting for the DA. We got a letter threatening to issue an order if we didn't clean up the properties.

I also got a phone call from a pleasant young lady who said: "We cant force you to do it, but can you please mow the nature strip, we have had some complaints about it".

So while I dont know the answer, it doesn't make sense that she would ask me to do after sending me a letter saying I must clean up the property, that is the part on our side of the boundary.

It doesn't make any sense to me from a legal standpoint. That is attaching responsibilities to property you dont own. But I could be wrong.

Found this link at Randwick CC which seems to suggest that Council cant force you to mow their lawn

http://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/counc...tureStrips.php

In WA it is generally part of the road reserve and, technically, part of the road.
Driving on the verge, footpath, nature strip, whatever constitutes driving on a road and can trigger an offence under our Road Traffic Act.

In all states and territories you will find that the nature strip is part of the Highway which is a Road or Road Related Area A Road Related Area Includes a nature strip. Therefore driving on a nature strip constitutes driving on a highway and most traffic related offences occur on a highway, as opposed to a road. So you can get done for .05 if you shift your car on the nature strip.

Dan

BTW Al, a farmer up here recently got fined a shyteload for not doing anything about Pattersons curse growing on the road side, outside his property.

Originally Posted by DanP

BTW Al, a farmer up here recently got fined a shyteload for not doing anything about Pattersons curse growing on the road side, outside his property.

Arrhh, thats because he didnt tell em its really Riverian Bluebell.

Al

Originally Posted by DanP

BTW Al, a farmer up here recently got fined a shyteload for not doing anything about Pattersons curse growing on the road side, outside his property.

I got a nasty letter from the Council about the blackberry on my council strip.....I told them Id get rid of the blackberry if they got rid of the Pinus Crapiatas on the same strip.....a couple of Council blokes arrived 2 days later to remove the blackberry.

I think the council is haveing us all on.

Making us responseable for their land?? :confused:
I dont mind haveing the NS mowed, but if I owned a long road frontage I would.

Al