What the ground in Weston tends to do
Weston is established Weston Creek stock with Oakey Hill on one side, and its walls have generally been in the ground long enough to have a history. Many have been repaired or extended in stages by different people over the years, which is the single most useful thing to establish before assessing one.
Read that history from the wall itself. Changes in sleeper age, differences in masonry joints, drains that were clearly added later and fence posts that do not align with the wall below all mark separate episodes of work. Each episode may have been done to a different standard, and the weakest one usually governs.
A staged repair history also means the drainage may be a patchwork. Where drains have been added at different times to solve different symptoms, they may not form a connected system, and water collected at one point may be discharging into the retained zone somewhere else. Trace each line rather than counting outlets.
Access, water and boundaries here
Access from Hindmarsh Drive is arterial; practical approach is from Brierly Street, Streeton Drive and the local network. These are generously sized older blocks, so expect a long carry to a rear terrace and check whether machinery can pass the house at all.
The judgement to reach here is whether movement is local or systemic. A wide photographic sequence along the full length will show whether one repaired section is moving on its own or whether the whole run is responding to the same water path. That distinction decides between a targeted repair and a replacement, and it is worth the time.
Weston's established creek-and-ridge setting means older walls may have been repaired in stages. Around Brierly Street, look for changes in sleeper age, masonry joints, added drains and fence posts that do not align. A wide photographic sequence can show whether movement is local or part of a longer system affected by the same water path.
Cooleman Court, Weston Creek Community Centre, Oakey Hill Nature Reserve locate the wider area, and Waramanga, Rivett, Holder adjoin it. None of that substitutes for measurements taken on your own block.