Keralup is a suburb straddling the southern boundary of the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia, on the eastern side of the Kwinana Freeway, and consists entirely of a government strategic landholding.[2]
| Keralup Perth, Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Barrier at the end of Paganoni Road blocking entry to the undeveloped estate | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 32°28′16″S 115°48′47″E / 32.471°S 115.813°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 0 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 2007 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 6182 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 40.3 km2 (15.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 58 km (36 mi) S of Perth | ||||||||||||||
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| State electorate(s) | Warnbro and Murray-Wellington | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Brand and Canning | ||||||||||||||
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The suburb's was chosen from a newspaper poll; it was proposed by local Nyoongar leader, Trevor Walley, as it was the name of a pool in the Serpentine River in which he and his friends played as children.[3][4]
Proposed development
editIn 1991, the state government's Department of Housing purchased Amarillo Farm, a large landholding in Keralup.[5] In 1997, plans were announced for the land to be developed into a major satellite city of Perth, with an estimated population of 90,000 people. The development was initially named Amarillo and later renamed East Keralup. The planned development was eventually abandoned in 2015 after the Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia released a report detailing "disastrous ecological consequences", including the potential for mosquito-borne illnesses deriving from the suburb's position on wetlands to the north of the Peel-Harvey Estuarine System.[6]
In 2018, the state government invited expressions of interest from the private sector for potential uses of the East Keralup site.[5]
References
edit- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Keralup (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "City of Rockingham - Keralup". Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ "Keralup index page". Archived from the original on 6 April 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ "History of metropolitan suburb names – K". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- ^ a b "State Govt to identify future land uses in East Keralup". Sound Telegraph. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ Mercer, Daniel (12 August 2015). "Ecological fears kill off satellite city". The West Australian. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
