Landscaping Victoria

Landscaping Victoria is the Association for landscape designers, residential & commercial builders, maintenance professionals & industry suppliers in Victoria.

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

Our Industry podcast has over 10,000 downloads! https://t.co/f9yz5sKPiH
If you haven't tuned in, you're missing out on amazing landscaping advice from some of the best people in the business. It's all happening in The Front Garden.

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

Finally! Landscapers can finish projects halted Aug 3 and Vic families no longer have to live with a construction site for a backyard.
Looking for a professional landscaper in order to #holidayathome? Look no further than an LVML Member but be patient, the backlog is long!

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@melbournegirl From Govt? On the Bus Vic website? Surely you jest!

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

Outdoor trades need to get back to work @DanielAndrewsMP @VictorianCHO @JaalaPulford For the economy and for Victorian families who continue to endure lockdown with a construction site for a backyard. #worksafe #landscaping @SPASA_Vic

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@melbournegirl @businessvic That duet flute track hold music (that we've listened to for over 20 collective hours since Aug 3...) is enough to drive anyone insane if they weren't already from these unfair restrictions 🤪 Let alone the lack of information once they answer. Don't start me...

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@heidimur Landscapers have done & continue to do their bit. No transmission in our sector but not considered part of the construction industry when it comes to policy. 100's of workers crawling on a Govt build, but we can't have two workers outside w Covidsafe plans and traceability.

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@theage But not thousands of landscapers who cannot work alone - it's against OHS regs. Yet hundreds of workers can be on a Govt infrastructure site. Landscape Construction = outdoor = zero contact with residents. Common sense? Non existent @DanielAndrewsMP @VictorianCHO

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@theage Great! All the mum's and dad's who can't go back to work will have SOMETHING to do while their businesses go down the drain...yay!
Landscape Construction = outdoor work = zero contact. @VictorianCHO @DanielAndrewsMP please explain how this is "not safe"?

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@VictorianCHO Can you explain how 2 workers OUTDOORS, ZERO contact with residents is "deemed not safe" when other construction sites are open? Landscape construction can do it too...been doing it since March. Why not now?
Happy to be CONSULTED!!?

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

Cannot begin to fathom how two workers can't work OUTDOORS in their own bubble with ZERO contact with residents when parks are teeming, supermarkets are full, and Govt infrastructure sites go back to 90% staff. Unbalanced. Unfair. Inexplicable.

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@JaymsVader @abcmelbourne @Channel10AU @Channel7 @rwillingham @heidimur @DenhamHitchcock Love your creative thinking Jayms! Landscapers are passionate about what they do to the point it is almost religious-like. Might just start an online church now and have everyone ordained overnight ready to go!

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

Dan's presser. 127,000 people back to work...but under what conditions?

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@melbournegirl Consultation or advice? Are you kidding😂😂😂

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@melbournegirl But again, no details! Do 'crews'' of 5 count in the 127,000?

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@zdaniel @abcnews @abcmelbourne @LisaMillar @LaTrioli Short survey of Members last week gave this result (n=113). 96% on JobKeeper with 83% of those saying they would have laid off staff without it, so as that dries up there could well be other repercussions.

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@TheKouk @zdaniel 30% of landscaping businesses will close if they can't work till Oct 26. Members have been working in crew 'bubbles' since Mar to protect their own business - they can work safely outdoors with ZERO contact with residents. Common sense needed NOW!

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@zdaniel @TheKouk We sure are! Conflicting, ambiguous information and no answers when you try (in vain) to seek clarity. Common sense and logic say that OUTDOOR work, ZERO contact with occupied residences should go ahead NOW. End of story.

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@VicGovDJPR @businessvic @VicGovAu Landscape Construction not eligible. Does that mean restrictions are lifting, we ask? "Yes, with one worker". That is NOT practical or reasonable or compliant with OH&S. Landscaping businesses still suffering unneccessarily when we can work OUTDOORS with ZERO contact.

[Landscaping Victoria @landscapingvic]

@heidimur Must be a min of two to comply with OH&S for Landscape Construction. Power tools and machinery cannot be used without a second on site for safety reasons.