Royal Park, South Australia

Royal Park Adelaide, South Australia
Wetland at Cooke Reserve for treating urban stormwater runoff for an ASR scheme in western Adelaide[1]
Royal Park
Coordinates	34.872°S 138.508°E / -34.872; 138.508
Population	3,453 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established	1880s[3][4]
Postcode(s)	5014
Location	12 km (7 mi) NW of Adelaide city centre 3 km (2 mi) south of Port Adelaide
LGA(s)	City of Charles Sturt
State electorate(s)	Lee
Federal division(s)	Hindmarsh
Suburbs around Royal Park: West Lakes Queenstown Queenstown West Lakes Royal Park Hendon West Lakes Seaton Seaton

Royal Park is located in the western suburbs of Adelaide. It is home to a large Polish community, as evidenced by the establishment of St Stanislaus of Cracow Catholic Church. Other ethnic groups represented include Italian, Croatian, Bosnian, Irish, Macedonian and Greek. At that time there was still a tribe of Aborigines living around the wetlands west of Royal Park that is now the suburb of West Lakes. In the 1950s a few streets at the southern end of Royal Park were allocated for Government Public Housing developments through the South Australian Housing Trust. In recent years,^[when?] there has been large-scale re-developments that include private housing and a soon-to-be-built^[when?] retirement village.^{[citation needed]}

Community

Parks and reserves

• Carnegie North Reserve
• Cooke Reserve
• Fisher Reserve
• Royal Reserve

Schools

• Hendon Primary School
• Royal Park High School - opened 1971; name changed to West Lakes High School, 1978; closed 1991.^[3]

Businesses

• Clean Seas is headquartered here.^[5]

References

1. City of Charles Sturt > Water Proofing the West > Cooke Reserve and West Lakes Golf Course. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Royal Park (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
3. City of Charles Sturt > Local history factsheet: A brief history of the suburb Royal Park. Retrieved 28 March 2014
4. Marsden, Susan (1977): A history of Woodville. Corporation of the City of Woodville. Pp. 83, 85. ISBN 0 9599828 4 1
5. "Clean Seas Seafood Limited". asx.com.au. Australian Securities Exchange. Retrieved 24 December 2020.