Council relies on residents to maintain the nature strips adjacent to their house, which are a logical extension of their own lawn areas. In general, residents throughout the City have been most co-operative.

Council may perform maintenance of a nature strip only if the area poses a significant public risk. In this case the work will be carried out once only. After that, it will be the responsibility of the owner adjacent to the nature strip to maintain it themselves.

It is not Council policy to maintain nature strips, and it has not done so for more than eight years. This policy relies on residents maintaining their adjoining nature strips before and after any work is carried out by Council. This helps to keep our costs down, which is an advantage to all residents.