Suburb Profile - Lalor · Ristic Real Estate

Suburb Profile - Lalor

Lalor is named after Peter Lalor, an activist turned Victorian state politician who led the 1854 Eureka Stockade rebellion and went on to become the only outlaw to become a Member of Parliament.

Lalor was a part of Thomastown until 1945 when Leo Purcell, a patient at a military hospital on the Atherton Tablelands, devised a scheme to provide low cost homes for ex-servicemen. In February 1947 he formed the Peter Lalor Home Building Co-operative Society with a group of ex-servicemen and a program of house building began. This continued until 1954 when it was taken over by the War Service Homes Commission. Heritage listing of parts of the Peter Lalor Estate commemorate this important social history.

The Lalor post office opened in 1949 followed by the first primary school in 1954.

This is an established residential area of approximately 9 square kilometres. Settlement of the area dates from the 1850s when German migrants established the township of Westgarthtown, with the land mainly used for dairy farming.

Key features

1. French Street Hall
https://www.whittlesea.vic.gov.au/events-recreation/halls-and-venues-for-hire/french-street-hall/

2. Lalor Library
https://www.yprl.vic.gov.au/locations/LALOR/

3. Outer Northern Trade Training Centre

This $6.4 million centre provides training facilities in building, construction and automotive trades. In addition to providing Vocational Education and Training (VET), this site is home to many community assets such as the Lalor Community Garden, Community Kitchen and Men’s Shed.

4. Peter Lalor Vocational College and Community Hub
http://www.peterlalor.vic.edu.au/onttc/

5. Lalor shops, Station Street and May Road

6. Stockade Park

Marks the location of the stockade area used to store the tools and materials used to build houses in the Peter Lalor Co-operative Housing Estate.

7. Westgarthtown

http://www.westgarthtown.org.au/

Located within Thomastown and Lalor, Westgarthtown is an historic former dairy farming settlement established in 1850 by German and Wendish immigrants.

8. Whittlesea Public Gardens
http://www.melbourneplaygrounds.com.au/melbourneplaygrounds-info.php?id=25453

9. Barry Road Community Hub
More info check out HERE

10. Lalor Recreation Reserve
https://directory.whittlesea.vic.gov.au/parks/lalor-parks/lalor-recreation-reserve.aspx

11. Cooper Street employment area (south-west)
Providing for industrial, warehouse and office uses. It also includes the Alex Fraser Group’s recycling facility. The southern portion of this precinct which extends south into Lalor will be accessed from Cooper Street and will be developed for employment uses in the future.

Planning and development

Lalor is mainly a residential area, although there are businesses and services in the area. These include the Lalor Shopping Centre on Station Street and May Road, which consists of approximately 100 businesses and services.

Council adopted the master plan for Thomastown and Lalor shopping centres in December 2011. The plan includes street improvements to shopping areas, improved landscaping, seats, shelters and bike facilities.

Read the master plan HERE:

Population

In 2015, it is estimated 23,000 people live in Lalor and the population is forecast to increase by 18 per cent to 27,200 by 2036.

The median age of residents is expected to stay the same, 38 years, until 2036.

Births

In 2015, it is estimated there was 336 births (average 6 births per week) with an increase by 2036 to 396 births per year (average 7 births per week).

Diversity

Almost half the population were born overseas and 65 per cent of residents speak a language other than English at home.The most commonly spoken languages are Arabic, Italian, and Macedonian.

Families and household. In 2015 there were approximately 8,200 dwellings and this is expected to increase to around 9,700 dwellings by 2036. The average household size in Lalor is expected to remain at 3 people to 2036 with 36 per cent of households made up of couples with children and 16 per cent being 1-parent households.

Employment

Labourers (17 per cent) and machinery operators/drivers (13 per cent) are the most common occupations and the most common industries of employment are manufacturing (18 per cent), retail trade (12 per cent), and health care and social assistance (10 per cent).

Education

More children attend primary school (7 per cent), compared with secondary school (6 per cent) and kindergarten (1 per cent).

Travelling in and out

Half of all households in Lalor have access to 2 or more motor vehicles, with 60 per cent of residents drive a car to work.

Advocacy priorities for South Morang

Childs Road is the major east-west arterial road linking Mill Park and Epping. It is a duplicated 4-lane divided road from Plenty Road to Dalton Road, except for the section across the E6 reservation and the Darebin Creek. This part of the road becomes a 2-lane road. As a result of the current intersection design and narrow bridge, traffic flow is unpredictable during peak periods. Duplicating the 850 metre section of Childs Road and providing a new bridge across the Darebin Creek will provide a continuous 4-lane divided road between Plenty Road in Mill Park and Dalton Road in Epping and remove the current unsafe footpath and the traffic bottleneck.

For more info about the upcoming planning of Lalor, CLICK HERE

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