Local Macquarie lawn care
Belconnen’s first suburb, and its oldest lawns
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Macquarie, gazetted on 22 June 1967 and named after Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, with streets named for his contemporaries. Macquarie Primary School on Bennelong Crescent opened in 1968 as the first school in Belconnen, which tells you how early this small suburb of 1.7 square kilometres was settled. It is bordered by Belconnen Way, Bindubi Street, Redfern Street and Coulter Drive, with the Jamison Centre and its Sunday Rotary market, the Big Splash pool and Canberra High School’s playing fields all inside or on its edges. Not to be confused with other same-named places elsewhere in Australia, this Macquarie is a short bus ride from the Belconnen Town Centre.
Close to sixty years on, the gardens are the story. Around 71 per cent of homes are separate houses on blocks laid out in the late 1960s, with trees and hedges that have had decades to grow, and the lawns underneath are mostly old couch and kikuyu that has slowly given ground to shade. About 18 per cent of dwellings are flats and units, and there is a group of public housing streets next to the Jamison Centre, so strata lawns, verges and shop frontages are part of the round too. Our operators know the 2614 postcode’s older blocks well.
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