Lethbridge Park, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Lethbridge Park
city = Sydney
state = nsw


caption =
lga = City of Blacktown
postcode = 2770
pop =
area =
propval =
stategov = Mount Druitt
fedgov = Chifley
near-nw = Ropes Crossing
near-n = Willmot
near-ne = Shalvey
near-w = North St Marys
near-e = Blackett
near-sw = Tregear
near-s = Whalan
near-se = Emerton
dist1 = 47
dir1 = west
location1= Sydney CBD

Lethbridge Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lethbridge Park is located 47 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

History

Lethbridge Park takes its name from the Lethbridge family. Robert Copeland Lethbridge settled at Werrington on a land grant made on 1 January 1806, while his sister Harriet settled on the Dunheved estate. The district's two pioneering families were united by marriage. Harriet Lethbridge was married to Captain Phillip Parker King (1791-1856), son of Governor Philip Gidley King and Anna Josepha King. Robert Copeland Lethbridge married King's sister, Mary. [ [http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/index.asp?id=218 Penrith City History - Town Foundation: Early Town Plans and Subsequent Speculative Subdivision ] ]

Education

Lethbridge Park Primary School is a public school covering Kindergarten to Grade 6. The school community have been lobbying the state government's New South Wales Department of Education and Training for funding to install air conditioning for some time. This lobbying is backed by monitoring in 2004 which showed that during summer, temperatures never dropped below 35 degrees celsius and relative humidity remained above 60%."Hot under the collar", p.8 Mt Druitt - St Marys Standard, 16 May2007.]

It was identified that the air conditioners could not be installed because the school's internal electrical system would not be sufficient to power them..

On 27 October 2006, the federal government provided a grant of AUD 118,000 to cover the upgrade to the electrical systems. Since that time the money has been held in an interest-free trust account - for a long enough time that interest earned should have been sufficient to finance the air conditioning that is still unfunded.

The schools' Parents and Citizens association has independently raised enough money to cover some of the required air conditioners, but these cannot be purchased or installed until the electrical system has been upgraded. The upgrade is currently in the tendering process.

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