West End is providing locals with a better option in discarding their kitchen scrap after it opened a community composting hub at Jane Street Community Garden.
The new Community Composting Hub was inaugurated on 13 May 2017, in line with the expansion of the community composting hub project of Brisbane City Council. The city council decided to expand the project after a successful trial of the first batch of community composting hubs.
The trial run of the community hubs resulted in the diversion of almost 6,000 litres of organic waste from the city’s landfill. Because of the success of the trial hubs, the council is opening new hubs to support its Clean, Green and Sustainable Strategy.
Jane Street Community Garden, located at 103 Jane St, is one of the three new hubs that were recently added to the program. Other hubs that were opened are in Yeronga, Annerley, Sunnybank Hills and Morningside.
The council is urging West End residents and locals living near the area to regularly bring their kitchen scrap to the composting hub. By joining the community composting program, residents will also learn how their kitchen scrap can be turned into garden compost.
Participants in the program can get a free caddy where they can place their food waste. Occasionally, there are workshops hosted at Jane Street Community Garden and other community gardens. Visit the community garden’s website at www.janestgarden.org.au or find composting workshops at other community gardens.
The countdown continues. Registration starts on March 1. Hurry, slots are limited!
Brisbane’s first ice cream festival is fast approaching, and ice cream lovers are eagerly counting the days until Saturday, March 11.
Widely regarded as Brisbane’s foodie precinct, West End will soon become a mecca for ice cream aficionados of all ages, as they all flock towards the historic Peters Ice Cream Factory on 97 Boundary Street.
Go for that ultimate sweet fix, as the coolest vendors in town try to top each other. Wait until you see what they have in store for you at their pop-up stalls:
And if you’re feeling adventurous, try the Bundaberg Ginger Beer Sorbet from Minus32.
Do you think that’s all? Think again. As if things aren’t going to get exciting enough, Hit105 will be playing some live music. And don’t forget to try the Ice Cream Burgers, a Brisbane Ice Cream Festival exclusive from Red Hook.
Here’s the deal. The Brisbane Ice Cream Festival’s Facebook event page has been swamped. 35,000 people “interested”. 8,700 “going”. You read that right. Thousands are visiting West End! What can we say, Brisbane REALLY loves her ice cream.
So, heads-up for the registration mechanics.
Entry is free. Ticket registration will open at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 1. There will be three registration sessions: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Each session has a registration cap of 1,800 tickets. There is a maximum of five tickets per person.
The festival organizers have announced that there is limited street parking and no on-site parking. Visitors are urged to take Translink’s bus and train service to the festival grounds. A special tie-up with Uberwill give festival goers $20 off their first ride, with a dedicated pick-up and drop-off service at Boundary Street. Uber users should key in the promo code JUSTFORLICKS to avail of the promotion. The festival is not a dog-friendly event, so it’s best to leave your pets at home.
Media Credits: Photos and video from the Brisbane Ice Cream Festival Facebook page.
Character homes in prime “gentrified” locations in West End and New Farm have sold for significant sums, in what can be considered a testament as to how urbanisation, the passage of time, and a great location can spell good fortune and serendipity when it comes to the value of one’s real estate.
A West End cottage located on 29 Daventry Street, in its first appearance on the market in 30 years, has sold for an impressive $2.03 million when it was sent to auction among seven registered bidders last February 18, easily making it Brisbane’s top sale of that week.
The character home’s strong selling point was the property’s footprint, covering 1,038 square metres on two blocks of blue-chip West End land. “Once you start talking about blocks like these ones it’s the top end of the buyer pyramid,” George Balandinos, real estate agent of Drakos Real Estate says. “It’s a unique property 1,038sq m. It was actually on two titles which lent itself to many options for the purchaser who could live in the house and subdivide up to 500sq m off … A block of (subdivided) land on a quiet street like that is worth a lot and 500sq m is a big block in West End.”
Similar Sales at New Farm and South Brisbane
227 Kent Street, New Farm
The West End sale comes three months after a similar seven-figure sale in New Farm, where a worker’s cottage located on 227 Kent Street fetched $1.6 million, in its first sale in 50 years. The cottage, which was in its original condition, sits on 506 square metres of prime property, in a quiet neighbourhood that’s within walking distance of James Street and less than 2 kilometres from Brisbane’s CBD.
42 Mollison Street, South Brisbane
In November last year, a three-bedroom cottage on 42 Mollison Street in the South Brisbane/West End precinct sold for $1.4 million. Situated adjacent to The Markets shopping complex and around a kilometre away from the Southland Parklands and Brisbane City Business Centre, that sale was the first in what has now become a three-peat of million-dollar sales of inner city cottages.
Both the New Farm and South Brisbane properties are within easy walking distance of the city’s retail, hospitality and market precincts, and are in excellent school catchment areas — things that buyers look for when considering to purchase.
As the real estate maxim goes, “Location is everything.” Given these three seven-figure sales, it would certainly appear to be so.
Photo Credit: All photos are from www.realestate.com.au
