Parkwood, Western Australia

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name=Parkwood
city=Perth
state=wa


caption=
lga=City of Canning
area=3.6
postcode=6147
pop=6,622 (2001 census) [2001 Census, Australian Bureau of Statistics]
dist1=18
location1=Perth
est=1965
fedgov=Tangney
stategov=Riverton
propval=$322,500 (Q3 2006) [ [http://www.reiwa.com.au/res/res-suburbprofile-display.cfm REIWA Suburb Profile] ]
near-nw=Riverton
near-n=Ferndale
near-ne=Lynwood
near-w=Willetton
near-e=Langford
near-sw=Willetton
near-s=Canning Vale
near-se=Thornlie

Parkwood is a southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Canning.

History

Parkwood was first settled by Henry Willett of Willett & Co, who was granted Canning Location 21 on the Canning River (which included nearby Lynwood) and settled in the area in June 1832. In November 1964, the Shire of Canning proposed the names "Burtsdale" and "Willetton" for Willetton and Lynwood/Parkwood respectively, the name Burtsdale honouring Septimus Burt, who purchased the land in 1882. In August 1965, developers at Lynwood requested the name "Clovercrest Estate", but finally agreed to "Lynwood". The name Willetton was shifted westwards and Lynwood was gazetted in December 1965. [LandInfo WA|m|L|2008-04-08]

Geography

Parkwood is bounded by High Road to the north and northeast, Nicholson Road to the east, Roe Highway to the south and Willeri Drive to the west. [2006 StreetSmart directory, Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth.]

At the ABS 2001 census, Parkwood had a population of 6,620 people living in 2,488 dwellings, nearly all of which are detached houses on single lots.

Facilities

Parkwood is a residential suburb with a scattering of parks of varying sizes. It contains Lynwood Senior High School (1974) and Parkwood Primary School (1975, originally called West Lynwood), which contains one of Perth's seven primary-school-level Intensive English Centres. The program is designed to assist refugees, displaced children and others with low English literacy, many of whom have special needs.

The Stockland Riverton shopping centre, located in northwestern Parkwood on High Road, is near the Canning Arts Centre and the Riverton Leisureplex. The Riverton Leisureplex is a large facility with sporting, fitness and recreation facilities first opened on 9 November 2001, [cite web |url=http://www.canning.wa.gov.au/lplex/ |title=Riverton Leisureplex - City Of Canning |accessdate=2008-04-08 |date= |work=2002 |publisher=City of Canning] is operated by the City of Canning and includes the council's largest library. The building was designed by the architectural firm James Christou and Partners. [cite web |url=http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/go/case-study/leisure-centre-swims-in-success |title=Leisure Centre Swims In Success |accessdate=2008-04-08 |date=03 October 2002|publisher=BlueScope Steel Australia] A tavern, the Riverton Gardens Hotel, is located on land used until the early 1980s as a public golf course. [UBD directories, 1972-1984]

The southeast is served by a neighbourhood shopping centre and community and sports centre, which back onto Whaleback Golf Course, an 18-hole public golf course. The facility first opened on 9 January 1981 on a buffer reserve between the Canning Vale industrial area and the housing developments in Parkwood and Lynwood, and was significantly upgraded in December 2002.

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