Cochrane Road is a road and a suburb in the Titiwangsa constituency of

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. It was named after Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane (1876–1932), who served as British Resident of Perak (1929–1930) and later the Chief Secretary to the Government of the Federated Malay States from 1930 till his death in 1932.

Location

Cochrane Road runs in a northwest–southeast direction, linking Maluri to Pasar Road in

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Features

Cochrane Road lends its name to two secondary schools in this area - the Cochrane Road School and SMK Cochrane Perkasa. Since 2015, Cochrane Road hosts

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's second store in Malaysia after

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. Linked to the IKEA store is the ''MyTown Shopping Centre'', developed by the

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-linked Boustead Group. There were many government quarters in this area since the 1930s, until demolition in 2011-2012 to make way for the construction of the aforementioned IKEA store and the Cochrane MRT station, part of the MRT Kajang Line.

References

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