Carramar, Western Australia

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This article is about the suburb within Perth, Western Australia. For For the suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, see Carramar, New South Wales.

Carramar
Perth, Western Australia

Postcode:

6031

LGA:

Wanneroo

State District:

Wanneroo

Federal Division:

Cowan

Suburbs around Carramar
Neerabup	Neerabup	Banksia Grove
Neerabup	Carramar	Banksia Grove
Wanneroo	Tapping	Mariginiup

Carramar is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Wanneroo. Its postcode is 6031, and it came into being, together with Tapping to the south, in 1995 as a subdivision of Neerabup.

Carramar is an Aboriginal word meaning "shade of trees", and was approved as a suburb name in 1997.^[1]

1 Geography
2 Facilities
- 2.1 Retail facilities
3 Education
4 Transport
- 4.1 Bus Routes
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Geography

Carramar is bounded by Flynn Drive to the north, Pinjar Road to the east, Joondalup Drive to the south, and Wanneroo Road to the west.^[2]

[edit] Facilities

The suburb has a park and sporting oval located on its Southern border at Millendon Street between Houghton and Cheriton Drives. Also located in this same area is the local Community Centre constructed and operated by the local council opened in May 2006.

In 1994, the Carramar Golf Course was opened by the City of Wanneroo. The Bob Stanton designed facility is a Par 72, 6121 metre course carved into a native Australian bushland surrounding.

[edit] Retail facilities

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Two sites within the suburb are zoned for retail facilities. The first is the Carramar Neighbourhood Shopping Centre^[3] located in the area bounded by Joondalup Drive, Rawlinna Parkway, and Cheriton Drive on the suburb's southern boundary. The site is owned by the estate's land developer Peet Limited and is currently expected to commence trading in late 2007. The second site is zoned regional shopping centre and is located on a parcel of land to the north of the intersection at Joondalup Drive and Pinjar Road.

The issue of shopping facilities within the Carramar Estate had been a source of constant discontent between residents, the local residents association, and the land developer. Amongst the delays cited were the tendering process for a land release in the adjoining suburb of Banksia Grove which would have lead them to instead develop the regional shopping centre site, and complaints regarding the approvals process of the City of Wanneroo which have been strenuously denied by Central Ward Councillors Sam Salpietro (Also Deputy Mayor) and Frank Civitan.

[edit] Education

A new primary school, Carramar Primary School, opened in February 2006.

High School studies are provided through either Wanneroo Senior High School or Kinross College. A number of students also attend St Stephen's School in the neighbouring suburb of Tapping for private primary and secondary education.

[edit] Transport

The suburb is served by bus links which provides connections back to the Joondalup Line via either the Whitfords or Joondalup railway stations.

[edit] Bus Routes

390 Joondalup - Neerabup
391 Joondalup - Neerabup
468 Whitfords - Joondalup

[edit] References

^ Western Australian Land Information Authority (Landgate). History of suburb names - C. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
^ Maps 126-127, 2007 UBD Directory (49th Edition), Universal Publishers Limited, Perth.
^ Peet Limited. Carramar Neighbourhood Shopping Centre. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.