Gardening on the suburban verge; $600 please.

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    https://alexmillier.com/2009/01/07/vergie-garden/
     
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    Councils approach is on the verge of being silly.
     
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    Re: Gardening on the suburban verge; $600 please.

    G'day All

    Yes it is a crazy situation, I agree. But is Council fully to blame, or should our litigation-mad society share in the shame?

    Picture this: A resident of Cottesloe is out walking one day, turns down a street, ambles past a 'vege-verge', slips on an errant tomato, falls and breaks a hip. Who is the resident going to sue - the grower of the tomato, or the Cottesloe Council who owes a duty of care to the pedestrian? Councils cop it in the neck, every time. Their insurance premiums reflect this, and in turn we pay with increased rates.

    Cottesloe (WA, Australia) Council Residential Verges Policy
    https://www.cottesloe.wa.gov.au/__data/p ... Verges.pdf

    Looks like a reasonably fair policy to me (maybe needs reviewing in order to give equal weight to both food production and 'indigenous plant species'), and if it can be justified that the 'vege-verge' represents a net community benefit, then anyone wishing to establish the same should find themselves in a very strong position to argue for the waiver of fees/charges.

    Do not whinge about government, BE the government.

    Cheerio, Marko.
     
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    Re: Gardening on the suburban verge; $600 please.

    So does that make someone with a footpath garden a vergetarian?
     
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    :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p
     
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    Re: Gardening on the suburban verge; $600 please.

    Does it makes someone who hasn't planted a footpath garden a vergen?
     
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    Re: Gardening on the suburban verge; $600 please.

    LOL :) :) :) :)
    To make a point, the edgy gardener could push the council to the brink; to see where their boundaries were?

    Thus may he be able to keep his verdure, verdurous,verecund verge?

    Otherwise garden on the strip of surrounding garden that outlines the rim of Long Bay Jail?
     
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    Re: Gardening on the suburban verge; $600 please.

    It is ridiculous but Marko has a point... People for some reason will slip on their own babanna skin and try to get money from everyone they can, from the grower of the banana to the concrete manufacturer.

    I've posted this here before, but it sounds appropriate to this topic...

     
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    The fun stuff is great and the serious stuff is worth consideration but I for one refuse to live in fear of those consequences. We need to take due care but others need to care for themselves. We need to be prepared to loose all and not having much helps.
    regards
     
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    Nice PP!

    A solicitor friend tells me that Australians now sue more than the Yanks!

    He has sued the local shopping centre/mall/cave 2-3 times with people tripping over the same piece of broken paving.
    The shopping center doesn't seem to want to fix it!

    The local council has never won a court case in its life.
     
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    I was speaking to a bloke a few years ago who was going to sue council over a pavement crack and I asked him if he had told them about it and he said "no they should know these things" Dah!
     

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