Kensington Road, Adelaide

Kensington Road is a main road in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide,^[3] linking the Adelaide city centre to its eastern suburbs.

Kensington Road South Australia
West end East end
Coordinates	34.927892°S 138.623504°E / -34.927892; 138.623504 (West end) 34.930565°S 138.684167°E / -34.930565; 138.684167 (East end)
General information
Type	Road
Location	Adelaide
Length	6.2 km (3.9 mi)[1]
Major junctions
West end	Wakefield Road Rose Park, Adelaide
	Fullarton Road Dequetteville Terrace Portrush Road
East end	No through road Wattle Park, Adelaide
Location(s)
Region	Eastern Adelaide[2]
Major suburbs	Norwood, Leabrook, Erindale, Wattle Park

Route

Its western end, on the edge of the Adelaide city centre, starts at the Britannia Roundabout on the City Ring Route. Kensington Road continues east through Adelaide's eastern suburbs of Leabrook and Erindale, before the road dead-ends at the foot of the western Adelaide Hills in Wattle Park.

History

Kensington Road has also been subject to controversial development by the Shahin family for their OTR headquarters, with over five attempts of approval despite community opposition.^[4]

Major intersections

LGA[5]	Location[1][6]	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Adelaide–Norwood Payneham & St Peters–Burnside tripoint	Adelaide–Kent Town–Norwood–Rose Park quadripoint	0.0	0.0	Fullarton Road (R1 south, unallocated north) – Wattle Park Dequetteville Terrace (R1 northwest) – North Adelaide Wakefield Road (west) – Adelaide CBD	Western terminus of road at Britannia Roundabout
Norwood Payneham & St Peters–Burnside boundary	Norwood–Rose Park–Toorak Gardens tripoint	0.8	0.50	Osmond Terrace (north) – Norwood Prescott Terrace (south) – Dulwich
	Norwood–Kensington–Toorak Gardens–Marryatville quadripoint	1.6	0.99	Portrush Road (A17) – Northfield, Payneham, Glen Osmond
Burnside	Wattle Park	6.2	3.9	No through road	Skye Lookout
Route transition

References

1. "Kensington Road" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
2. "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
3. 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd). 2003. ISBN 0-7319-1441-4.
4. "OTR's fifth try at building a service station in Kensington approved following compromise with council". ServoPro. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
5. "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
6. "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.