North Lakes, Queensland
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Geography
Lake Eden is within the suburb of North Lakes.[3]
Plantation Road Bridge is a Script error: No such module "convert". road bridge over the Bruce Highway to linking North Lakes to Dakabin along Plantation Road.[4]
History
North Lakes is situated in the Yugarabul traditional Indigenous Australian country.[5]
In the 1930s near Kinsellas Road, was the former Kinsellas Dairy Farm. It was when in 1928, the Kinsellas brothers secured 405 hectares of land for dairy farming. [6] At the time, Norman Meyers owned a pineapple plantation that remained there until the 1960s. The land at time was very competitive. Following the construction of the Australian Paper Manufacturers Mill at Petrie, slash pine plantations extended through North Lakes from the 1970s, and finally winded down operations in the 2000s. Most of the land was freed for commercial developers. In April 1999, the North Lakes project officially commenced, led by commercial developers Lend Lease and Lensworth. [7]
North Lakes State College opened on 1 January 2002.[8][9]
The Lakes College opened on 24 January 2005.[8]
Originally part of Mango Hill, North Lakes was gazetted as a separate suburb by the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water in February 2006.[10] The origin of the suburb name is from the name given to the estate development.[10]
Bounty Boulevard State School was opened on 1 January 2009.[11]
The North Lakes Library opened in 2014.[12]
Plantation Road Bridge over the Bruce Highway linking North Lakes to Dakabin along Plantation Road opened on 12 December 2014.[4]
The North Lakes Golf Club closed on 11 August 2019 with the land to be sold for a retirement village.[13] Residents were upset by the decision as they chose to live in the area because of the green space of the golf course.[14]
Demographics
In the Template:CensusAU, North Lakes had a population of 15,046 people, 51.6% female and 48.4% male. The median age of the North Lakes population was 31 years, 6 years below the national median of 37. 63% of people living in North Lakes were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 9.2%, New Zealand 8.7%, South Africa 3.9%, Philippines 1.3%, Scotland 1%. 86.6% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.5% Afrikaans, 0.8% Hindi, 0.7% Tagalog, 0.7% Spanish, 0.5% German.[15]
In the Template:CensusAU, North Lakes had a population of 21,671 people. North Lakes includes the largest South African Australian community of any suburb in Queensland, numbering 809 individuals and making up 3.7% of the suburb's population.[16]
In the Template:CensusAU, North Lakes had a population of 23,030 people.[1]
Heritage listing
- Anzac Avenue (the road itself)[17]
Education
- North Lakes State College is a government primary and secondary (Prep-12) school.
- The Lakes College is a private primary and secondary (Prep-12) school.[18][19] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 833 students with 66 teachers (63 full-time equivalent) and 43 non-teaching staff (38 full-time equivalent).[20]
Transport
The only mode of public transport in North Lakes is bus with all services traveling ether via or to/from North Lakes Bus Station.[21]
References
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External links
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- North Lakes Qld Community
- Aerial film footage of Queensland places, State Library of Queensland. Contains aerial footage of North Lakes
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