GoodNeighbours

This street has some lovely properties and a lovely outlook. We have also looked here quite a few times for the perfect home but they are either tightly held or very expensive. There is a problem that we have experienced when looking at properties in Yarrambat, Diamond Creek and Plenty - and that is the apparent lack of regard for other people or properties in terms of lack of tidiness, unregistered cars littering properties in full view of the neighbouring properties and the dreadful practice we see every weekend we search for properties, of residents burning their unwanted junk causing horrendous choking smoke and a nasty lingering smell - is this really necessary? We are quite disgusted by this and wonder what the Shire Council might do to control it? After all, it is prime real estate in 2011, not remote industrial land in the 1960s!

I somewhat agree with many of the sentiments of the first comment by "peacefulone" about Youngs Rd, Yarrambat -- and we are anything but "hippies" or "greenies" - we are professionals looking for a quiet street with a nice outlook. Having considered on quite a few occasions land/homes in this street over the past several years, my overwhelming feeling is that it seems such a shame that the whole street is let down by poor tidiness and maintenance of some of the homes/land. It would be a beautiful area but for what I could only describe as "junkyards" at several points in the street where rusting old car bodies, hideous shipping containers, piles of junk, weed-infested mounds of disgarded dirt and falling down sheds are very much part of the landscape. Furthermore, we have also experienced, on being shown one of the properties on this street, the dreadful effects of a resident burning their junk on an adjacent property. This seemed extraordinarily unsuitable for a prime residential area and very un-neighbourly. The final straw is that the road is in very poor condition, with many potholes and soft edges, and is too narrow to pass. We had the exquisite experience of being run into the curb by an oncoming road user who clearly had no concern for either his vehicle or others' using this street. For us it was, unfortunately, a fail and we are continuing our search for a nicer street.