Maribyrnong city council orders West Footscray resident to rip up the artificial lawn in his front yard
Maribyrnong city council has requested Fadhullah Yusof replace his synthetic grass with ‘natural lawn and planting as approved by the landscape plan’.Maribyrnong city council has requested Fadhullah Yusof replace his synthetic grass with ‘natural lawn and planting as approved by the landscape plan’.A homeowner in Melbourne’s west is fighting a council order to replace his property’s synthetic grass with a natural lawn, saying he has a “busy lifestyle” and wants a “low maintenance” front yard.
But Yusof said he had been unaware he had breached council’s regulations because he had never received anything in writing, prior to February, about the ban. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup It said the council had determined not to take any further enforcement action if Yusof complied with the request.
He said the council had not provided him with the landscape plan when he brought the property in November 2022.The council’s chief executive, Celia Haddock, said a 2020 planning permit for the construction of four dwellings at the site, required a landscape plan.Haddock said council inspected the site in 2022, as part of an application for subdivision, and discovered the artificial plastic turf had been installed “in contravention of the approved landscape plan.
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