At around 2470 people per square kilometre, Mitcham sites usually allow a planned weekend outage, which makes the program manageable. Mitcham is 20 kilometres from town. Middle-ring sites usually have workable access and a single occupier to coordinate with.
For Mitcham, Whitehorse has no role in high voltage work. The parties that matter are the distributor and the regulator. Because Mitcham backs onto Donvale and Forest Hill, a second visit is rarely a second trip for us.
By the numbers: 16795 people, roughly 6.8 square kilometres, postcode 3132, inside Whitehorse. That is Mitcham as of the 2021 census. Day to day we are across Mitcham and the streets either side of it: Donvale, Forest Hill, Nunawading and Ringwood. Same crew, same rates, same certificate at the end.
Mitcham is around 9.2 kilometres north-west of our workshop in Boronia, close enough that the van is stocked for the job before it leaves.