St Leonards, New South Wales

Coordinates: 33°49′34″S 151°11′25″E / 33.82613°S 151.19041°E / -33.82613; 151.19041
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St Leonards
Federal division(s)
North Sydney
Suburbs around St Leonards:
Artarmon
Artarmon
Naremburn
Gore Hill
Osborne Park
 St Leonards Crows Nest
Greenwich Wollstonecraft Crows Nest

St Leonards is a suburb on the lower

Municipality of Lane Cove, North Sydney Council and the City of Willoughby
.

History

St Leonards was named after

Gore Hill
. The township of St Leonards in 1883 is now North Sydney.

St Leonards railway station is the oldest railway station on the North Shore railway line opening in 1890.[2][3]

Pacific Highway
in 1868 and was the main burial site for the area until its closure in 1975. It is still maintained as a heritage site by the Department of Local Government and Lands, Willoughby Municipal Council and the Heritage Council of New South Wales.

Heritage listings

St Leonards has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Population

In the 2021 Census, there were 7,212 people in St Leonards. 36.7% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were China (without SARs and Taiwan) 9.6%, India 5.5%, Hong Kong 4.9%, Japan 4.4%, and England 3.3%. 47.5% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 11.8%, Cantonese 7.9%, Japanese 4.9%, Hindi 2.6% and Korean 2.4%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 49.1% and Catholic 14.9%.[5]

Commercial area

An aerial view of St Leonards and the surrounding suburbs of Longueville and Riverview
Gilroys Hotel

St Leonards has a commercial centre that complements the role of

Channel 31. Fox Sports studios are located at the Gore Hill end. Ichijo Homes had its headquarters in St Leonards in 2010, but moved to Kings Park
in May 2011.

The Forum

Residential towers on Christie Street

The Forum is built over the railway station and comprises three commercial office buildings, two residential towers containing 782 apartments, an independent mini-supermarket, and 34 food and retail shops.[6]

Forum Tower (118m/38 stories) was the suburb's first high-rise apartment building complex completed in August 1999 and Forum West 3 three years later. Both buildings boast a concierge, pool, spa, gym and private & public car parking facilities each. Winten Property Group was responsible for the construction of both Forum buildings.

The Plaza also contains offices for Cisco, Verizon Business, Getty Images among other companies.

Transport

Pacific Highway is the major road through the suburb. Bus services through St Leonards are operated by Busways, CDC NSW, Keolis Downer Northern Beaches, Transdev John Holland and Transit Systems.[7]

Health

The Vanderfield Building, Royal North Shore Hospital

A major landuse in the suburb is the Royal North Shore Hospital which is the largest hospitals in Sydney.

Schools and churches

  • A campus of the
    University of Technology, Sydney
  • The campus of Northern Sydney TAFE
  • Northside Community Church
  • Royal North Shore Hospital Chapel[8]

Sport and recreation

St Leonards has developed into somewhat of a home for

Australian Rugby Union located at St Leonards (2007-2018), from neighbouring North Sydney. The Northern Suburbs Rugby Club has its clubhouse in St Leonards, featuring the Cabana Bar and Lounge. It also has a popular Rock Climbing Facility
for the climbing community.

Gore Hill Oval, located on the grounds of Royal North Shore Hospital, is a synthetic field for AFL & cricket, ½ basketball court, handball courts, perimeter walking track, 2 exercise equipment stations and a playground.[9] It is also the home ground of Australian rules football club, North Shore Bombers.

References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "St Leonards (NSW) (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ISBN 0-207-14495-8
    , p.237
  3. ^ De-industrialisation of St Leonards Australian Railway History issue 858 April 2009 pages 115-125
  4. Department of Planning & Environment. H01491. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence
    .
  5. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "St Leonards (NSW) (State Suburb)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 6 November 2023. Edit this at Wikidata Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  6. ^ Forum, St Leonards - Winten Property Group
  7. ^ St Leonards station Transport for NSW
  8. ^ Chaplains 'pressured' over Royal North Shore crosses, Mosman Daily 28 April 2009.
  9. ^ "Gore Hill Oval".

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