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{{Short description|Road in Perth, Western Australia}}
{{About|a road in Perth, Western Australia|the other Beach Roads|Beach Road (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox Australian road
| type         = road
| road_name    = Beach Road
| state        = wa
| image        = Beach Road 069 E Warwick Wanneroo.jpg
| caption      = View east towards intersection with [[Wanneroo Road]]
| length       = 14
| direction_a  = West
| end_a        = {{AUshield|T|204}} [[West Coast Drive]] <small>(Tourist&nbsp;Drive&nbsp;204), [[Marmion, Western Australia|Marmion]]</small>
| exits        = {{Plainlist|
* {{AUshield|S|71}} [[Marmion Avenue]] <small>(State&nbsp;Route&nbsp;71)</small>
* {{AUshield|S|77}} [[Erindale Road]] <small>(State&nbsp;Route&nbsp;77)</small>
* {{AUshield|S|60}} [[Wanneroo Road]] <small>(State&nbsp;Route&nbsp;60)</small>
* {{AUshield|S|56}} [[Alexander Drive]] <small>(State&nbsp;Route&nbsp;56)</small>
}}
| direction_b  = East
| end_b        = [[Marshall Road]], <small>[[Malaga, Western Australia|Malaga]]</small>
| est          = 1900
| through      ={{WAcity|Duncraig|Carine|Warwick|Hamersley}}, {{WAcity|Balga|Mirrabooka|Malaga}}
}}

[[File:Beach Road 000 E Waterman beginning.jpg|thumb|200px|right|View east from intersection with [[West Coast Drive]]]]
[[File:Beach Road 061 W Warwick Erindale.jpg|thumb|200px|View west towards intersection with [[Erindale Road]]]]

'''Beach Road''' is a major east–west [[road]] in the northern suburbs of [[Perth]], Western Australia, connecting Perth's inner northern beachside suburbs and inland state housing areas with shopping and public transport facilities at [[Warwick, Western Australia|Warwick]] and the [[Malaga, Western Australia|Malaga]] industrial area. It was mostly built between 1967 and 1974,<ref>''Metropolitan Street Directory'' (9th-16th editions; 1968-1975) Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth. Accessed at Battye Library, Perth.</ref> and is a dual carriageway for most of its length, except for a small western part between [[Marmion Avenue]] and the coast, which is a minor residential distributor road and is discontinuous at Marmion Avenue.<ref name=streetsmart>{{Streetsmart WA|maps=Map 280-283}}</ref> Beach Road also serves as a local government boundary. From Alexander Drive to Wanneroo Road, Beach Road is the boundary with the [[City of Wanneroo]] on the northern side and the [[City of Stirling]] on the southern side. From Wanneroo Road to the coast Beach Road is the boundary with the [[City of Joondalup]] (part of [[City of Wanneroo]] until 1998) on the northern side and the [[City of Stirling]] on the southern side.

Beach Road is unusual in two respects: despite its size and traffic levels, and the fact it crosses [[Mitchell Freeway]], it does not have entry or exit to the freeway{{snds}}one of only two major east-west roads not to do so (along with [[Scarborough Beach Road]]){{snds}}and secondly, it was not assigned a [[List of road routes in Perth, Western Australia|route number]] when Main Roads Department introduced the State Route system in 1986. S

==History==
It was surveyed as Road No.246 by A. Crowther in 1900.<ref>Crossland & Co. ''Loc. 1315 Western Survey for Midland Railway Co.'' (1892, later additions to 1900) Located at State Records Office, Perth, under "Swan 172"</ref> It included modern-day Sandstone Place in Marmion and Treen Street in Balga, running purely east-west, and formed the boundary between the Wanneroo and Perth Road Districts (now the Cities of [[City of Joondalup|Joondalup]] and [[City of Wanneroo|Wanneroo]], and the [[City of Stirling]]). The road serviced a small number of rural grants around Lake Carine as well as the small coastal town of [[Marmion, Western Australia|Marmion]], which was gazetted in 1940.<ref>{{Gazette WA|title=New Townsite - Marmion|file=940/36|page=1940:474|date=5 April 1940}}</ref>

By 1968, two different parts of the road were impacted by development. The [[Hamersley Development Scheme]] had been approved on both sides of the road between Marmion Avenue and [[Wanneroo Road]], while the State Housing Commission had commenced the Mirrabooka Satellite City development, which consisted mainly of housing construction in the [[Balga, Western Australia|Balga]] and [[Girrawheen, Western Australia|Girrawheen]] areas. The Shires of Perth and Wanneroo agreed to build a new road on the present alignment, and closed 95 chains ({{convert|1.8|km|abbr=on|disp=or}}) of the old road between what is now Glendale Avenue and Wanneroo Road.<ref>{{cite book|title=Town Planning Committee Minute Book (2574/27)|date=July 1968|author=Shire of Perth|pages=195, 207}}</ref><ref>{{Gazette WA|title=Closure of Road|file=2321/68|page=1968:3561,3835|date=13 December 1968}}</ref>

In 1974, the Warwick Grove Shopping Centre was built at the intersection of [[Erindale Road]]. A bus transfer station alongside the proposed [[Mitchell Freeway]] was constructed in the early 1980s, which was demolished in 1992 to construct [[Warwick railway station, Perth|Warwick railway station]]. The construction of the [[Reid Highway]] in stages from 1988 to 2001 about {{cvt|1–2|km}} further south for Beach Road's entire length provided an alternative for east-west traffic.

==Major intersections==
All intersections below are controlled by traffic lights unless otherwise indicated.

{{AUSinttop
| LGA_ref = 
| location_ref = 
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{{AUS-WAint
|LGAC=Swan 
|LGAspan=3
|location=Malaga
|lspan=3
|km = 0.0
|road = [[Malaga Drive]] {{WAcity|p=on|Noranda|Bennett Springs|Dayton}}
|notes = Eastern terminus; road continues east as [[Marshall Road]]}}
{{AUS-WAint
|km = 0.8
|road = Oxleigh Drive
|notes = Roundabout}}
{{AUS-WAint
|km = 1.1
|road = Crocker Drive
|notes = Roundabout}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=[[City of Wanneroo|Wanneroo]]–[[City of Swan|Swan]]–[[City of Stirling|Stirling]] tripoint
|location_special={{WAcity|Koondoola}}–{{WAcity|Malaga}}–{{WAcity|Mirrabooka}} tripoint
|km=1.6
|road= {{AUshield|S|56}} [[Alexander Drive]] (State Route&nbsp;56){{WAcity|p=on|Landsdale|Ballajura|Dianella|Perth}} 
|notes= 
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=[[City of Wanneroo|Wanneroo]]–[[City of Stirling|Stirling]] boundary
|LGAspan=3
|location_special={{WAcity|Koondoola}}–{{WAcity|Mirrabooka}} boundary
|km=2.9
|road= Butterworth Avenue
|notes= 
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|location_special=[[Balga, Western Australia|Balga]]–[[Mirrabooka, Western Australia|Mirrabooka]]–[[Girrawheen, Western Australia|Girrawheen]]–[[Koondoola, Western Australia|Koondoola]] quadripoint
|km=3.8
|road= [[Mirrabooka Avenue]]{{WAcity|p=on|Alexander Heights|Darch|Nollamara}} 
|notes= 
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|location_special=[[Girrawheen, Western Australia|Girrawheen]]-[[Balga, Western Australia|Balga]] boundary
|km=5.3
|road= Girrawheen Avenue north / Princess Road south {{WAcity|p=on|Westminster}}
|notes= 
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=[[City of Stirling|Stirling]]–[[City of Joondalup|Joondalup]]–[[City of Wanneroo|Wanneroo]] tripoint
|location_special=[[Hamersley, Western Australia|Hamersley]]
–[[Balga, Western Australia|Balga]]–[[Warwick, Western Australia|Warwick]]–[[Girrawheen, Western Australia|Girrawheen]] quadripoint
|km=7.0
|road= {{AUshield|S|60}} [[Wanneroo Road]] (State Route&nbsp;60) {{WAcity|p=on|Lancelin|Wanneroo|Yokine|Perth}}
|notes=}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=[[City of Joondalup|Joondalup]]–[[City of Stirling|Stirling]] boundary
|LGAspan=6
|location_special={{WAcity|Warwick}}-{{WAcity|Hamersley}} boundary
|lspan=3
|km=8.0
|road= [[Erindale Road]] {{WAcity|p=on|Greenwood|Balcatta|Gwelup}}
|notes= 
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|km=8.5
|road= Dorchester Avenue north / Glendale Avenue south
|notes= 
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|km=9.4
|road= [[Warwick railway station, Perth|Warwick railway station]] access road
|notes= 
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|location_special={{WAcity|Duncraig}}-{{WAcity|Carine}} boundary
|km=10.7
|road= Davallia Road north / Okely Road south
|notes= 
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|location_special=[[Marmion, Western Australia|Marmion]]
–[[Duncraig, Western Australia|Duncraig]]–[[Carine, Western Australia|Carine]]–[[Watermans Bay, Western Australia|Watermans Bay]] quadripoint
|km=12.8
|km2=13.0
|road= {{AUshield|S|71}} [[Marmion Avenue]] (State Route&nbsp;71) {{WAcity|p=on|Yanchep|Hillarys|Scarborough|Cottesloe}}
|notes=Staggered T-intersections favouring Marmion Avenue. The section from the coast meets at an unsignalised intersection 150 m south of the main signalised intersection.}}
{{AUS-WAint
|location_special=[[Marmion, Western Australia|Marmion]]–[[Watermans Bay, Western Australia|Watermans Bay]] boundary
|km=14.0
|road={{AUshield|T|204}} [[West Coast Drive]] (Tourist&nbsp;Drive&nbsp;204){{WAcity|p=on|Sorrento|North Beach|Trigg}}
|notes=Western terminus at unsignalised T-intersection}}
{{Jctbtm|notes=Note: Intersections with minor local roads are not shown}}

<gallery mode=packed caption="Travelling along Beach Road">
File:Beach Road (W from Glendale Ave).ogv|View westbound from Glendale&nbsp;Avenue
File:Beach Road (E from Wanneroo Road).ogv|View eastbound from Wanneroo&nbsp;Road
</gallery>

==See also==
{{portal-inline|Australian Roads}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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