The Lane Cove Council is a

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located on the Lower North Shore of

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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 ...

is located north-west of the

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of Lane Cove Council since 10 January 2022 is Cr. Andrew Zbik, the first mayor of Lane Cove representing the Australian Labor Party.

Location

On the western and southern borders is the

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with the

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and Hunter's Hill, across the river on the western and southern banks respectively. To the north is the Willoughby and to the east is North Sydney.

Suburbs and localities in the local government area

Suburbs in the Municipality of Lane Cove are: Localities in the municipality are: *

Blaxlands Corner Blaxlands Corner is a locality on the North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Blaxlands Corner is at the intersection of Longueville Road, Northwood Road, and River Road West, in the southern part of Lane Cove adjacen ...

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* Palm Gardens * Osborne Park

Demographics

At the there were people in the Lane Cove local government area, of these 49.2 per cent were male and 50.2 per cent were female.

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made up 0.3 per cent of the population; significantly below the NSW and Australian averages of 2.9 and 2.8 per cent respectively. The

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age of people in the Municipality of Lane Cove was 36 years; slightly lower than the national median of 38 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 18.5 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 13.7 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 51.8 per cent were married and 10.4 per cent were either divorced or separated. Population growth in the Municipality of Lane Cove between the and the was 0.29 per cent; and in the subsequent five years to the , population growth was 3.44 per cent. At the 2016 census, the population in the Municipality increased by 14.41 per cent. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same period, being 8.8 per cent, population growth in the Lane Cove local government area was significantly higher than the national average. The median weekly income for residents within the Municipality of Lane Cove was significantly higher than the national average.

Council

Current composition and election method

Lane Cove Municipal Council is composed of nine

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elected proportionally as three separate

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, each ward electing three Councillors. All Councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The

and Deputy Mayor are elected by the Councillors at the first meeting of the council. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, and the makeup of the council is as follows: The current Council, elected in 2021, in order of election by ward, is:

Council history

In May 1865, 67 residents of the rural District of Willoughby, which included what is now Lane Cove, sent a petition to the Governor Sir John Young, requesting the incorporation of the "Municipality of North Willoughby". This resulted in the municipality being formally proclaimed on 23 October 1865. There were no wards until 1876 when the council was divided into three wards: Chatsworth Ward to the north, Middle Harbour Ward to the east and Lane Cove Ward to the west. Lane Cove Ward subsequently became the separate "Borough of Lane Cove" on 11 February 1895. With the passing of the Local Government Act, 1906, the name was changed to be the "Municipality of Lane Cove" and with the passing of the Local Government Act, 1993, the council legally changed to "Lane Cove Council" and aldermen were retitled councillors. A 2015 review of local government boundaries by the

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Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal recommended that the Municipality of Lane Cove merge with the councils across the river. The government proposed a merger of the Hunter's Hill, Lane Cove and

Councils to form a new council with an area of and support a population of approximately 164,000. In July 2017, the Berejiklian government decided to abandon the forced merger of the Hunter's Hill, Lane Cove and Ryde local government areas, along with several other proposed forced mergers.

Heritage listings

The Lane Cove Council has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Greenwich, 95 River Road: Pallister, Greenwich * Lane Cove, 334 Burns Bay Road: Carisbrook, Lane Cove * Lane Cove North, 518 Pacific Highway:

Chatswood South Uniting Church The Chatswood South Uniting Church is a Heritage register, heritage-listed Uniting Church in Australia, Uniting church (building), church at 518 Pacific Highway (Australia), Pacific Highway, Lane Cove North, New South Wales, Lane Cove North in ...

* Linley Point, 360 Burns Bay Road: Linley House * Northwood, 1 Private Road:

Northwood House Northwood House is a country manor house in Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. The current building dates back to 1799 and was built for the London businessman George Ward, remaining in his family for five generations. It is a ...

References

External links

Lane Cove Municipal Council website
* {{Local Government Areas of New South Wales

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