Cautioned by the Council Rangers

[AC]

Well i had a visit from two grubby looking Council Rangers this afternoon.
Not exactly clean and presentable as you'd think.

They issued me a formal caution for parking in front of my house.

The commonly known "nature strip". And yes, I know your not supposed to.
Apparently if they come past again they'll issue me with a fine for parking there.
They said i have either park on the street, or park in the driveway or within my own fence line.

The last i heard of them enforcing this is when Sydney 2000 was in full swing.

As far as im concerned, I mow it, I should be able to park there.
But obviously there is some sort of council law which i cannot find that prohibits this.
And being Rangers(Special Constables), I guess they have the power enforce and to issue a fine.

I wouldn't have thought it to be enforced in my tiny tucked away community in the lower blue mountains.

I guess my only recourse is to no longer mow the nature strip....
They can mow it if they value it so much.

:

Also...

The last time i heard of someone getting fined for it, the guy sued the council for 20years of lawn mowing on the nature strip, which totaled in the THOUSANDS of $$$$$, His council were quick to settle and withdraw the fine.

:

[Laminge]

I would have warned the bastards they are trespassing on private property and ask them to leave oh so politely!

[onfire]

Im glad our resources are going into something so worth while.. my gawd, someone think of the nature strip.

[AC]

Originally Posted by Laminge

I would have warned the bastards they are trespassing on private property and ask them to leave oh so politely!

LOL, Yeah. And get my chucky doll out swinging a 2X4 :P


Just having thought about it some more.
I can only assume... And i mean assume.

That maybe one of my lovely neighbors might have complained about the exhaust from the XC and made a start by sneakily setting the Rangers onto me. 70's muscle cars aren't for everyone, specially as i some times drive it to work at 5am in the morning.
Although, I've been here for over 2 years now, I thought if there was a complaint that i should have had the police, RTA or the EPA on my door step by now.

Maybe i should get the jug on the boil... LOL

[kyro_02]

my brother was warned that he(cop) could fine him, but he was there for a different matter. my bro was fined by a cop for a defected car /an defecting it, (more the the story, but thats all you need to hear lol)... apparently if a kid steps out to cross the road.. others may not see the kid(s) and could get hit?

we still park on the nature strip.

[Van D]

I've got 3 cars on ours, sister has one too, lol. Mum always says it makes us look like a scummy a Frankston family.

[AC]

Originally Posted by kyro_02

apparently if a kid steps out to cross the road.. others may not see the kid(s) and could get hit?

My nature strip has enough width to park two cars side by side and to open doors.

Go to whereis and look up Glossodia NSW.

I dont exactly live in the thick of the suburbs.
Curb and guttering only applies to the main road and a few streets that run off it, We dont have town sewerage, only pump out or envirocycle. And the town water stops outside of my small town. After that your on rain water tanks or bore water only.

As you'll see, very rural and away from the suburbian ant farms.
Where this petty Reg really shouldnt apply, But does.

[jason71]

Just politely remind them of how much they owe you for maintaining it!

We had an extension done recently and the council wanted as to put fire proof
sarcing in the roof as we backed onto a reserve.

Funny thing is they do not maintian the fire strip.

I now get onto the fire brigade when the grass gets six inches long telling them that there is a fire risk as the council have not maintained the fire strip.

[Yellow_Festiva]

This issue is a funny one actually,

What about those new suburbs where they put in that curved curb, the one that actually invites you to mount the gutter and park your car on the nature strip, or half of it at least?

[Sourbastard]

delcare independance, annex the nature strip citing that you need breathing room.

[LUXO_8]

^^^ bloody funny

[Nostalgia]

Originally Posted by sourbastard

delcare independance, annex the nature strip citing that you need breathing room.

Thats great. Honestly though, id tell em to Get Stuffed.

[prydey]

stop mowing it! then every week or two ring the council and tell them to come and mow the nature strip. prolly wouldn't gain anything but it would annoy them.

[AC]

I like your thinking Prydey


And Sourbastard.... Your a classic

[Hally]

Funny story about a nature strip....

Many years ago was moving into a relatives house at North Rocks (in Sydney) and had a ute parked on the nature strip to unload. Anyway, my relatives did not get on with the neighbour next door. This guy rang the cops to come around and fine me for where I was parked. As it happened, I left a few minutes before the cops got there. He gave them my rego and car details. The cops said there was nothing they could do because they didn't see it, but because he felt so passionate about the matter that they would go and book the rest of the street for it, and advise the residents of who made the complaint. About 15 cars got done!

[aye you]

Originally Posted by Hally

Funny story about a nature strip....

Many years ago was moving into a relatives house at North Rocks (in Sydney) and had a ute parked on the nature strip to unload. Anyway, my relatives did not get on with the neighbour next door. This guy rang the cops to come around and fine me for where I was parked. As it happened, I left a few minutes before the cops got there. He gave them my rego and car details. The cops said there was nothing they could do because they didn't see it, but because he felt so passionate about the matter that they would go and book the rest of the street for it, and advise the residents of who made the complaint. About 15 cars got done!

priceless

[EA2BA]

I think you will find that maintenance of the nature strip falls under the home owner to maintain it regardless of owning it or not.

[GORDZ]

why do i continually feel a sinking sence of australianism everytime the police are brought up?

[mik]

Originally Posted by AC

Well i had a visit from two grubby looking Council Rangers this afternoon.
Not exactly clean and presentable as you'd think.

They issued me a formal caution for parking in front of my house.

The commonly known "nature strip". And yes, I know your not supposed to.
Apparently if they come past again they'll issue me with a fine for parking there.
They said i have either park on the street, or park in the driveway or within my own fence line.

The last i heard of them enforcing this is when Sydney 2000 was in full swing.

As far as im concerned, I mow it, I should be able to park there.
But obviously there is some sort of council law which i cannot find that prohibits this.
And being Rangers(Special Constables), I guess they have the power enforce and to issue a fine.

I wouldn't have thought it to be enforced in my tiny tucked away community in the lower blue mountains.

I guess my only recourse is to no longer mow the nature strip....
They can mow it if they value it so much.

:

Also...

The last time i heard of someone getting fined for it, the guy sued the council for 20years of lawn mowing on the nature strip, which totaled in the THOUSANDS of $$$$$, His council were quick to settle and withdraw the fine.

:

your a bit lucky they at least gave you a warning i have been pinged for it and got no warning ...........****es me off really, ours is a narrow st and has quiet a bit of traffic at school times the buses weave in and out parked cars, safer for all concerned i would have thought on the nature strip,........................... ah well how dare we residents have safety over bylaws :togo:

[mik]

Originally Posted by EA2BA

I think you will find that maintenance of the nature strip falls under the home owner to maintain it regardless of owning it or not.

depends on the shire, some councils you can let the grass grow 5 feet and they will come and mow it and send you the bill

[GORDZ]

are they the places where you have to have white picket fences and the only roads and streets around are 'terrace, walk, lane, rise, drive, path' etc etc?

[mik]

nah just normal street it depends on council, i think if anyone notified their respective council and asked them to look after the nature strip some would come to the party for a fee, others would say dont bother me ring jims mowing, shire of hume seems fairly good.

[Sourbastard]

I dont own a lawn mower, I pay council rates, its their land, so I ring the council 5 star generals and say "come mow the wheat outside my house, its harvest time." and they come and mow it after 2 weeks of trying to work out how to start the mower. In the meantime the nature strip gains a lovely collection of snakes, giant spiders and viet cong who seem to keep the school children population down.

Its win win.

[Geez Louise]

Originally Posted by sourbastard

I dont own a lawn mower, I pay council rates, its their land, so I ring the council 5 star generals and say "come mow the wheat outside my house, its harvest time." and they come and mow it after 2 weeks of trying to work out how to start the mower. In the meantime the nature strip gains a lovely collection of snakes, giant spiders and viet cong who seem to keep the school children population down.

Its win win.

[atec77]

Originally Posted by EA2BA

I think you will find that maintenance of the nature strip falls under the home owner to maintain it regardless of owning it or not.

It's not law , but if you fail to mow it the council will try to fine you , I don't mow mine and religiously ring the council each month for their crew to remove the vermin hazard .

[rodderz]

I was told a while ago that it was illegal to park there as the nature strip contained services such as electricity, fire hydrant, water, gas pipes etc and may need to be opened up in the case of emergency

If council wanted to really enforce it imagine the revenue...how many houses with more than 2 cars don't have cars on the nature strip if they don't have parking access on the property

[TURBOTAXI]

Mow it with roundup.

[Psi-Pop]

Originally Posted by Van D

I've got 3 cars on ours, sister has one too, lol. Mum always says it makes us look like a scummy a Frankston family.

This only applies if they are VK/VN or XF/EA

[sfr rob]

This subject makes my blood boil, it also relates to rear fences that back onto council land, they wont pay to have them replaced, but will tell you that you have to maintain them because it backs onto their land!?!

Mate, you should try having 4 trucks, 2 boats a caravan and 5 cars.
You simply have to use the nature strip to shuffle cars trucks around to get to what you want.
We have copped the odd sticker on the front windscreens of the trucks but they are only warnings.
We have got some old spanners around here with nothing better to do than call the council as soon as your front tyre hits the grass on the nature strip.
We are also having new water mains run through our street at the end of the month, no one is going to get past our house if we have to park the trucks on the road.
I can bet thats when the bloody council "workers" will come waddling out with their ticket book and will fine us for having commercial vehicles out on the road.....

[T-BOOST]

Originally Posted by Van D

I've got 3 cars on ours, sister has one too, lol. Mum always says it makes us look like a scummy a Frankston family.

Hey not all of frankston is scumy thank you very much!
It's only a very small part, 'the north'.

I hate hearing this. Not half a km away from the CBD of Frankston there are multi million doller houses and lots of them. You'll have trouble finding a house in the south for under half a million.
When Tom Cruise and Nicole were together they were looking for a house to buy on olivers hill (1km from the centre of Frankston)

We were voted the best town in the world 4 years ago (i think it was the same year melbourne was voted the best city in the world)
Has your area had this type of recognition??