Local Woden Valley lawn care
Lawn care for Canberra’s first satellite town
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across the Woden Valley, the district of twelve suburbs arranged around the Woden Town Centre in Phillip. Woden was Canberra’s first satellite town, built from 1964 with its own shops, jobs and homes separate from Canberra Central, and the district was formally established in 1966. The National Capital Development Commission planned it for about 55,000 people: work on Hughes and Curtin started in late 1962, Chifley and Lyons followed in 1965, Garran, Pearce, Torrens, Mawson, Farrer and Phillip in 1966, O’Malley in 1973 and Isaacs in 1986. At the 2021 census 39,279 people lived here across 28.6 square kilometres, with the Canberra Hospital in the north of the district, Canberra College, the library and the Woden Youth Centre near the middle, and Weston Creek and Tuggeranong over the district boundaries.
For a mowing operator the useful fact is the age of the place. Almost six in ten Woden Valley homes are still separate houses on the original blocks, and their gardens have had sixty years to grow: the conifer on the Yarra Glen median strip and the row of trees by the southbound off-ramp were once the old Yarra Glen homestead’s garden and windbreak, and plenty of private yards have trees of the same vintage. The other four in ten are townhouses and flats, many of them around the town centre. Add a valley floor on old alluvium, hillsides on volcanic rock under Mount Taylor and Mount Mugga Mugga, and close to one resident in five aged over 65, and you have a district where the same operator might mow a postcode 2606 unit lawn and a sloping half-century garden in the same morning.
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