What's different in Brookvale
Industrial land
Northern Beaches Council says Brookvale is known for its significant concentration of industrial land, 86 hectares of it.
More homes coming
The council plans for approximately 2,900 new homes across the precinct by 2041, with protections for industrial, creative and business uses. Expect homes and workshops to sit closer together, with pests moving between them.
Mynas at the shops
The council says mynas are a pest near shops and cafes, and points people who want them controlled on their property to a local pest control company. They favour the walls and ceilings of buildings for nests, so a gap in an awning or roofline matters.
Does one unit's problem become everyone's?
Often it does. German cockroaches gather near warm spots like water heaters, and inside cupboards and appliances, and shared walls and service risers (the shafts that carry pipes and cables between floors) give them a way next door. Treat one tenancy and they can simply come back from the one beside it.
If you run a workshop, gym or food business in a unit, talk to your landlord and the neighbours early. A plan covering several tenancies usually works better than each of you treating alone.
Do residents get notice before common areas are treated?
They do in NSW. If you arrange pest work for the common areas of a residential complex, you must give residents a pesticide use notice at least 5 working days ahead, and that includes a strata managing agent. There's an exception for emergency work on biting or dangerous pests, such as rodents, wasps, bees, venomous spiders or fleas, as long as a notice is displayed and records are kept.
Questions for a unit, shop or strata job
- Can I see the technician's photo licence card, and check it hasn't expired?
- Which product will you use, and can I have its safety data sheet?
- What's the re-entry time, and what do neighbouring tenants need to know?
- Are you treating the common areas, or only my unit?
- What will the written record show, and who keeps a copy?
What we'd do about pests in Brookvale
Find out who else in the building has seen the same thing before you book anything. One joined up job beats three separate ones. Then tell us what you've seen, and say whether it's a home, a unit block or a business.
Want someone to look at it?
Tell us what you've seen and your postcode, and a local pest business that handles exactly that calls you to talk it through.
