Cockburn Central ( ) is
a suburb of
Perth, the capital city of
Western Australia, and is south of
Perth's central business district (CBD) along the
Kwinana Freeway
The Kwinana Freeway is a freeway in and beyond the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking central Perth with Mandurah to the south. It is the central section of State Route 2, which continues north as Mitchell Freeway to Cl ...
. Its
local government area
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is the
City of Cockburn, and it is intended by the Government to serve as a regional centre for the area. It was approved as a name by the
Geographic Names Committee
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in 2007.
The new suburb came into existence after the newly constructed Kwinana Freeway cut off the western portion of
Jandakot from the main part of the suburb, with the section west of the freeway becoming Cockburn Central.
It contains a new town centre focussed around the
railway station, with the state headquarters of the
Department of Fire and Emergency Services, a district police station,
Cockburn ARC
Cockburn ARC is an aquatic and recreation centre located in the southern Perth suburb of Cockburn Central. The facility also contains the administrative and training headquarters of professional Australian Football League club the Fremantle F ...
(a regional aquatic and recreation centre, which also houses the administration and training facilities for the
Fremantle Football Club), Cockburn Gateway Shopping city (which, despite the name, is located in neighbouring
Success
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), high rise residential apartments and an older industrial area.
References
External links
Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia
Suburbs in the City of Cockburn
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