Wattle Grove, Western Australia
Encyclopedia
Wattle Grove is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia
, located within the Shire of Kalamunda
.
Major Transport Routes through the suburb are Welshpool Road
, Hale Road, Tonkin Highway
and Roe Highway
.
The nearest Train stations are
Wattle Grove is served by Wattle Grove Primary School, and a Community TAFE Centre in Lewis Road and the Bible College of Western Australia (Private). The new primary school built on the area bordered by St John Road, Tomah Road, and Acastus Road openned to Students in 2011. The old primary school on Welshpool road was mothballed with no alternative usage envisioned.
Hartfield Recreation Centre, located nearby, provides gymnasium facilities as well as opportunities for playing Rugby League, Soccer, Baseball, Cricket, Tennis. Hartfield Park also contains the Darling Range Horse and Pony Club, the Hartfield Country Club (Golf Course), Boy Scouts, and Car Club rooms.
Wattle Grove is well connected to other regions of Perth due to its proximity to the Roe Highway
and Tonkin Highway
.
The most direct route to the Perth CBD is via Welshpool
/ Shepperton Roads (12 km all in 60 km/h zones), however alternative routes are available via Orrong Road / Graham Farmer Freeway
(14 km in 70 & 80 km/h zones), Tonkin Highway
/ Great Eastern Highway
(18 km in 100 & 60 km/h zones), and Roe Highway
/ Kwinana Freeway
(23 km all in 100 km/h zone and the only route without traffic lights).
Wattle Grove has no major retail facilities within its boundaries, has two vets, a motel, a number of nurseries
, landscape suppliers, agistment paddocks, boarding kennels and a Bird / Fish & Reptile shop.
The nearest Police Station is at Forrestfield
,and Public Hospitals are available at Bentley
and Kalamunda
.
Much of Wattle Grove has developed into other agricultural uses such as poultry farms, equestrian studs, agistment paddocks, horticultural nurseries, pet kennels, hobby farms and cattle breeders.
20 residents of Wattle Grove were killed in action during World War One (1914-1919), 5 of whom were from the one family.
, Tonkin Highway
and Roe Highway
has been rezoned as Urban Development by the Shire of Kalamunda
and is known as cell 9 in the Kalamunda shire plan. This area of Wattle Grove is now a hive of activity as land is subdivided and houses built. The price of land in cell 9 has subsequently risen exponentially since the first sub division in 1999.
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, located within the Shire of Kalamunda
Shire of Kalamunda
The Shire of Kalamunda is a Local Government Area in the eastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about east of Perth's central business district. The Shire covers an area of , much of which is state forest rising into the Darling Scarp to the east...
.
Description
Wattle Grove is approximately 3/4 Semi Rural, and 1/4 Urban Development. It contains some of Hartfield Park, and extends from Crystal Brook Road to Roe Highway.Major Transport Routes through the suburb are Welshpool Road
Welshpool Road, Perth
Welshpool Road is a major arterial road running through the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. Although the road is now split in two, having had its West and East sections disconnected due to the extension of Roe Highway, it remains Welshpool's second most important road , and the...
, Hale Road, Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway, at , is a limited access dual carriageway in Perth, Western Australia, connecting Reid Highway in the north with Thomas Road in the south. Mostly a 4 lane highway, some sections of the highway are to a 4 to 6 lane freeway standard; the remainder of the highway has been designed to...
and Roe Highway
Roe Highway
Roe Highway is a limited access dual carriageway in Western Australia. It links Great Northern Highway and Middle Swan Road with Kwinana Freeway. It is one of the key heavy vehicle routes in the Perth metropolitan area. Aside from intersections, the speed limit is 100 km/h for most of its length...
.
Public transport
Bus routes are- 287 to and from the cityPerth, Western AustraliaPerth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
via Hartfield Park stop on Hale Road, - 288 to and from the cityPerth, Western AustraliaPerth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
via Hartfield Park stop on Hale Road, - 787 to and from the cityPerth, Western AustraliaPerth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
via Hartfield Park stop on Hale Road, - 788 to and from the cityPerth, Western AustraliaPerth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
via Hartfield Park stop on Hale Road, - 294 to Midland Train StationMidland railway station, PerthMidland Train Station is a Transperth train station 16km from Perth Train Station, in Western Australia, and is the terminus of the current suburban rail service on the Midland Line.-History:...
or to Cannington Train Station via Hale Road, - 282 to and from LesmurdieLesmurdie, Western AustraliaLesmurdie is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Shire of Kalamunda.It is viewed as being a rival suburb to the neighbouring suburb of Kalamunda directly to the north. The main access to the suburb from the Swan Coastal Plain is via Welshpool Road, that snakes its way up the...
and the cityPerth, Western AustraliaPerth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
via Welshpool Road. - 283 to and from KalamundaKalamunda, Western Australia-Transport:Kalamunda Road serves as a major access road for Perth Airport, and provides the foothills suburbs with access to the Perth central business district....
and the cityPerth, Western AustraliaPerth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
via Crystal Brook Road.
The nearest Train stations are
- Kenwick Train Station on the Armadale Line,
- Beckenham Train Station on the Armadale Line,
- Cannington Train Station on the Armadale Line,
Facilities
Playgrounds are located throughout the new subdivisions in the suburb, as well as walking and bike paths leading to newly created artificial lakes.Wattle Grove is served by Wattle Grove Primary School, and a Community TAFE Centre in Lewis Road and the Bible College of Western Australia (Private). The new primary school built on the area bordered by St John Road, Tomah Road, and Acastus Road openned to Students in 2011. The old primary school on Welshpool road was mothballed with no alternative usage envisioned.
Hartfield Recreation Centre, located nearby, provides gymnasium facilities as well as opportunities for playing Rugby League, Soccer, Baseball, Cricket, Tennis. Hartfield Park also contains the Darling Range Horse and Pony Club, the Hartfield Country Club (Golf Course), Boy Scouts, and Car Club rooms.
Wattle Grove is well connected to other regions of Perth due to its proximity to the Roe Highway
Roe Highway
Roe Highway is a limited access dual carriageway in Western Australia. It links Great Northern Highway and Middle Swan Road with Kwinana Freeway. It is one of the key heavy vehicle routes in the Perth metropolitan area. Aside from intersections, the speed limit is 100 km/h for most of its length...
and Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway, at , is a limited access dual carriageway in Perth, Western Australia, connecting Reid Highway in the north with Thomas Road in the south. Mostly a 4 lane highway, some sections of the highway are to a 4 to 6 lane freeway standard; the remainder of the highway has been designed to...
.
The most direct route to the Perth CBD is via Welshpool
Welshpool Road, Perth
Welshpool Road is a major arterial road running through the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. Although the road is now split in two, having had its West and East sections disconnected due to the extension of Roe Highway, it remains Welshpool's second most important road , and the...
/ Shepperton Roads (12 km all in 60 km/h zones), however alternative routes are available via Orrong Road / Graham Farmer Freeway
Graham Farmer Freeway
The Graham Farmer Freeway is a major part of the metropolitan road infrastructure in Perth, Western Australia. It is long and links Rivervale and East Perth with West Perth, bypassing Perth's central business district...
(14 km in 70 & 80 km/h zones), Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway, at , is a limited access dual carriageway in Perth, Western Australia, connecting Reid Highway in the north with Thomas Road in the south. Mostly a 4 lane highway, some sections of the highway are to a 4 to 6 lane freeway standard; the remainder of the highway has been designed to...
/ Great Eastern Highway
Great Eastern Highway
The Great Eastern Highway is a major road between the Western Australian cities of Perth and Kalgoorlie. It is a key route for vehicles accessing the eastern wheatbelt and the eastern goldfields...
(18 km in 100 & 60 km/h zones), and Roe Highway
Roe Highway
Roe Highway is a limited access dual carriageway in Western Australia. It links Great Northern Highway and Middle Swan Road with Kwinana Freeway. It is one of the key heavy vehicle routes in the Perth metropolitan area. Aside from intersections, the speed limit is 100 km/h for most of its length...
/ Kwinana Freeway
Kwinana Freeway
The Kwinana Freeway is a major arterial road in Perth, Western Australia, linking Perth with the southern suburbs and then further on towards Mandurah, a distance of . It has a speed limit of , except in central Perth and south of Lakes Road . Like all Western Australian freeways, the minimum...
(23 km all in 100 km/h zone and the only route without traffic lights).
Wattle Grove has no major retail facilities within its boundaries, has two vets, a motel, a number of nurseries
Nursery (horticulture)
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size. They include retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries which supply the needs of...
, landscape suppliers, agistment paddocks, boarding kennels and a Bird / Fish & Reptile shop.
The nearest Police Station is at Forrestfield
Forrestfield, Western Australia
Forrestfield is a suburb of the Shire of Kalamunda in Western Australia. It lies 15 km to the southeast of Perth at the base of the Darling Scarp and the Southern border of the International Airport. There is authority to suggest it is named after Western Australia's first premier, John Forrest...
,and Public Hospitals are available at Bentley
Bentley, Western Australia
Bentley is a southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located 8 km southeast of Perth's central business district. Its Local Government Areas are the City of Canning and the Town of Victoria Park...
and Kalamunda
Kalamunda, Western Australia
-Transport:Kalamunda Road serves as a major access road for Perth Airport, and provides the foothills suburbs with access to the Perth central business district....
.
History
Prior to European settlement the Beeloo people occupied much of Wattle Grove. In 1827 the Colonial Botanist Charles Fraser and Captain James Stirling explored the region to evaluate its suitability for farming. Initially the area was used for forestry and orchards; fruit growing continues to be one of the major industries in Wattle Grove, Bickley and Orange Grove today.Much of Wattle Grove has developed into other agricultural uses such as poultry farms, equestrian studs, agistment paddocks, horticultural nurseries, pet kennels, hobby farms and cattle breeders.
20 residents of Wattle Grove were killed in action during World War One (1914-1919), 5 of whom were from the one family.
Recent events
After a concerted campaign was lost during the 1980s by the Save our Foothills action group a quarter of the suburb bounded by Welshpool RoadWelshpool Road, Perth
Welshpool Road is a major arterial road running through the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. Although the road is now split in two, having had its West and East sections disconnected due to the extension of Roe Highway, it remains Welshpool's second most important road , and the...
, Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway, at , is a limited access dual carriageway in Perth, Western Australia, connecting Reid Highway in the north with Thomas Road in the south. Mostly a 4 lane highway, some sections of the highway are to a 4 to 6 lane freeway standard; the remainder of the highway has been designed to...
and Roe Highway
Roe Highway
Roe Highway is a limited access dual carriageway in Western Australia. It links Great Northern Highway and Middle Swan Road with Kwinana Freeway. It is one of the key heavy vehicle routes in the Perth metropolitan area. Aside from intersections, the speed limit is 100 km/h for most of its length...
has been rezoned as Urban Development by the Shire of Kalamunda
Shire of Kalamunda
The Shire of Kalamunda is a Local Government Area in the eastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about east of Perth's central business district. The Shire covers an area of , much of which is state forest rising into the Darling Scarp to the east...
and is known as cell 9 in the Kalamunda shire plan. This area of Wattle Grove is now a hive of activity as land is subdivided and houses built. The price of land in cell 9 has subsequently risen exponentially since the first sub division in 1999.