Walkley Heights, South Australia

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Walkley Heights
Adelaide, South Australia

Walkely Heights reserve

Population:

713 (2001 census)

Established:

1995

Postcode:

5098

Property Value:

AUD $220,000 (2005)^[1]

LGA:

City of Salisbury

Suburbs around Walkley Heights
	Ingle Farm	Para Vista
Pooraka	Walkley Heights	Valley View
Northfield	Oakden	Gilles Plains

Walkley Heights is a newly built residential subdivision 15 kilometres to the 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^[2]. The suburb ( and one adjacent main road ) is named after John Walkley, an early pioneer in South Australia^[3]

The suburb had a population, in 2001, of only 713^[4] but still had new dwellings being constructed as of 2006.

There has now been a small shopping centre built at the end of Homestead Avenue built for the convenience of local residents, with a Foodland supermarket, Video Ezy store, a pizza shop, beauty salon and a doctor's surgery. Also there is a childcare centre and kindergarten.

1 Environment
2 See also
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[edit] 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.^[5]