Walkley Heights, South Australia

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Walkley Heights
city = Adelaide
state = sa


caption = Walkely Heights reserve
lga = City of Salisbury
postcode = 5098
est = 1995
pop = 3224 (2006) [Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC42791 | name = Walkley Heights (State Suburb) | quick = on | accessdate=2007-10-25]
area =
propval = $360,500 (2007) [ [http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx?mode=%20$257,000&suburb=Walkley%20Heights&postcode=5098#mapanchor Property values for Walkley Heights on domain.com.au] ]
stategov =
fedgov =
near-nw =
near-n = Ingle Farm
near-ne = Para Vista
near-w = Pooraka
near-e = Valley View
near-sw = Northfield
near-s = Oakden
near-se = Gilles Plains
dist1 =
location1=

Walkley Heights is a newly-built residential subdivision 15 km north of Adelaide. The suburb is located on land formerly comprising the prison farm for Yatala Labour Prison, and includes fifty-five hectares of land formerly owned by R. M. Williams which was compulsorily acquired during the time of former State Premier Sir Thomas Playford [ [http://www.postcards.sa.com.au/features/dry_creek_lin_park.html Postcards – Dry Creek – Linear Park] ] . The suburb ( and one adjacent main road ) is named after John Walkley, an early pioneer in South Australia [ [http://www.placenames.sa.gov.au/pno/pnores.phtml?recno=SA0069588 www.placenames.sa.gov.au Government of South Australia, Land Services Group] ]

The suburb had a population, in 2001, of only 713 [Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001 Census of Population and Housing] increasing to 3,224 by 2006.

A small shopping centre at the end of Homestead Avenue has a Foodland supermarket, a pizza shop, a bakery, a Salvation Army opportunity shop, a beauty salon and a doctor's surgery. Also there is a childcare centre and kindergarten.

Environment

The suburb occupies 1.5 square kilometres of land either side of the Dry Creek linear park which features mature river red gums, recent landscaped plantings, and the remains of an old stockman's hut. Within the linear park is the Walkley Heights reserve where mallee box grassy woodland is actively being conserved under the Urban forest biodiversity program. ["Urban Forest Biodiversity Program", press release from [http://www.urbanforest.on.net www.urbanforest.on.net] ]

ee also

*List of Adelaide suburbs

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