Thornlie, Western Australia

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Thornlie
Perth, Western Australia

Established:

1956

Postcode:

6108

Property Value:

AUD $232,500

Location:

12 km from Perth

LGA:

Gosnells

State District:

Kenwick , Southern River

Federal Division:

Hasluck

Suburbs around Thornlie
Langford	Kenwick	Maddington
Parkwood	Thornlie	Gosnells
Canning Vale	Southern River	Huntingdale

Thornlie, Western Australia ( 32°03′46″S, 115°57′10″E) is a suburb in the south east of Perth, Western Australia. It is part of the City of Gosnells local government area. It is largely a residential suburb with associated schools and small businesses, mainly existing to service local residents. It is bisected by a main transport artery, Spencer Road, and is also being serviced, since August 2005, by a newly-constructed passenger railway service terminating at the Thornlie railway station.

Thornlie was established in the late 1950s as a housing estate aimed mainly at the large influx of British migrants arriving in Perth at that time. The first homes in the area included a section of residences constructed in the 1950s and early 1960s which lie to the north of the intersection of Thornlie Avenue and Spencer Road, and residences lying to the south of Thornlie Avenue between Spencer Road and the Canning River which were constructed in the 1960s and 1970s. The more up-market Crestwood estate, which was an experiment in providing fully-integrated facilities and services to home-owners, was established from the early 1970s in the southen part of Thornlie; the experiment did not lead to these provisions becoming common on the part of land developers in Perth. From the 1980s the newer Castle Glen and Forest Lakes housing estates, which were at that time to some extent in competition with one another for land purchasers, were established in the remaining land in the western and south-western portions of Thornlie. Some semi-rural land in the western portion, mainly utilised for horse agistment and chicken-farming, was developed in the early 2000s. At one time there were several industrial activities taking place in the north-western portion. The last of these to close, about 2004, was the Ingham chicken-processing factory, the site of which is currently being redeveloped as the Yale residential estate which will begin land sales in early 2006.

Thornlie has several government and independent schools, a number of churches, a bowling club, a performing arts centre and three moderate-sized shopping centres. The Tom Bateman Reserve in the far west of Thornlie includes a number of sporting and recreation facilities including a baseball stadium which opened in 2004.