Heathridge, Western Australia

Heathridge is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 26km north of Perth's central business district within the City of Joondalup.Heathridge was chosen as the suburb name because of the heath type vegetation growing on the sand ridges of the area.HistoryPrior to urban settlement in the 1970s, Heathridge was a remote and undeveloped area. It represented the central and eastern portions of Lot M1513 and the northeastern corner of Lot M1506 on Swan Location 1370. The name Heathridge, chosen for the ground-cover vegetation growing on the sand ridges in the area, was first proposed by the developer, Kaiser Aetna, and was accepted by the government's Nomenclature Advisory Committee on 8 November 1974. It was officially gazetted in October 1975.The suburb started to develop in 1976, with the first land sales in the area bounded by Caridean Street to the north, Admiral Grove to the east, Ocean Reef Road to the south, and Marmion Ave via Mermaid Way and Poseidon Road to the west. The Metropolitan Region Planning Authority rezoned the north and east of the suburb in 1978 for urban development, and land progressively became available throughout the suburb in the 1980s, particularly in the Heathridge Heights area bounded by Hodges Drive to the North, Caridean Street and Poseidon Road to the East, Mermaid Way to the South, and Marmion Avenue to the West. Sales for this estate were handled from the now long departed Ocean Reef Sales Office, that resided on the site now occupied by private residences and a petrol station at Marina Boulevard and Marmion Avenue in Ocean Reef.More recently, a number of previously unoccupied areas in the suburb's northern and western areas were developed in the late 1990s. The largest of these, at the south-western tip of the suburb, was previously held by a private religious land trust that was at times slated for development as a retirement village and a shopping centre. After community opposition to these plans and the lack of interest from commercial property developers, the vacant land was converted into residential lots.