Lane Cove West is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of

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, Australia. Lane Cove West is located 9 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the

Municipality of Lane Cove The Lane Cove Council is a local government area located on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The administrative seat of Lane Cove is located north-west of the Sydney central business district. The Mayor of Lane ...

Lane Cove Lane Cove is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lane Cove is nine kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local governmen ...

and Lane Cove North are separate suburbs.

History

The land in the area was originally used for agriculture and owned by John Blackman. From the mid-1950s Lane Cove West was home to the national head office, pressing plant, warehouse and recording studios of the

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Lane Cove West Public School
was also built at this time. Lane Cove West split off from

to become a separate suburb on 6 September 2002.

Population

In the 2016 Census, there were 2,637 people in Lane Cove West. 62.7% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 5.4% and China 3.8%. 74.0% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 30.6%, No Religion 27.3% and Anglican 15.2%.

Commercial area

Lane Cove West Business Park is an industrial area with factories and warehouses of such companies as Cochlear Hearing Implants, Macquarie Goodman, La Kantina (restaurant), Rockwell Automation, Harley Davidson (head office) and a Storage King complex (on the same site where previously a Nestle factory was located). Most of these are located on Mars Road and Sam Johnson Way (Orion Rd). There are also a number of small businesses situated at Figtree Plaza on Cullen Street and Burns Bay Road. These include a hair salon, cafe, beautician, fish and chip shop, award winning fruit & vegetable market, and butcher shop. Close by is th
Metropolitan Baptist Church

Heritage listing

* Lane Cove House (c. 1850), at 38 Myee Crescent, is listed on the Register of the National Estate. In the early twentieth century it was a private psychiatric hospital.

Parks and recreation

Blackman Park is situated on the Lane Cove River and was originally a small valley used for landfill. It features a number of recreation facilities including

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courts at the Lane Cove West Tennis Club,

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pitches, bike tracks, basketball court, skate park and bush walking tracks. Smaller reserves include ''Cullen St Reserve'', ''Henley Reserve'', ''Penrose St Park'', ''Garthowen St Cricket Nets'' and ''Epping Road Reserve''. There is also a lawn bowls club
Lane Cove Bowling Club
(formerly called Lane Cove West Bowling Club). Image:Lane Cove West Blackman Park.JPG, Blackman Park

References

External links

* {{Sydney Lane Cove suburbs Suburbs of Sydney