Mowing and slashing in Clarence

Each year we undertake an extensive springtime program of mowing, slashing and fire hazard management across the region.

From October and through to Summer we visit all council owned land to maintain vegetation and reduce hazards. This includes council land such as bush reserves, fire trails, rural roadsides and other natural areas.

Parks and sportsgrounds are maintained routinely throughout the entire year including throughout spring.

In Clarence, we’re lucky to enjoy over 70 regional parks, 1400 hectares of bushland, 300km of fire trails and 150km of walking trails and 191km of coastline, this does mean that there is a lot of ground to cover during the spring season when new growth emerges. A range of factors can impact our spring timetable – such as weather – however our teams work hard to get priority areas done ahead of summer.   

Toward the end of the schedule, we reassess all areas and will reattend spots where substantial vegetation has grown back.

Typically, the mowing and slashing is done in stages, we start with fencelines and move into the centre, then we return for clean up – so the works may occur intermittently over several days.

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Suburbs in order of schedule: 

  1. Warrane
  2. Risdon Vale
  3. Geilston Bay, Lindisfarne and Bellerive
  4. Otago
  5. Montagu Bay
  6. Rosny
  7. Howrah North
  8. Mt Rumney and Richmond
  9. Howrah South and Tranmere
  10. Sandford and South Arm
  11. Oakdowns and Rokeby
  12. Seven Mile Beach, Lauderdale and Cremorne

This is an annual schedule and doesn’t include unique reports made by the community. 

Roadsides

Council-owned rural roadsides are slashed once a year and this work is done by a contractor. 

The primary purpose of roadside slashing is to ensure clear sight lines for drivers, signage visibility, drain maintenance, safe pedestrian passage and fire safety. The basic mowing and slashing work utilises large machinery to minimise traffic disruptions and roadsides are not maintained to the same standard of sportsgrounds, parks and reserves.

See the full list of council-owned rural roads here (PDF).

There are also several major roads which are managed by the state government (see list here) or are private roads managed by the land owner.

Roadsides in urban areas are considered Nature Strips and these are managed by the property owner – see Nature Strips page.

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