The Lakes, Western Australia

The Lakes is an outer northeastern locality of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located within the Shire of Mundaring. It is located 51 kilometres (32 mi) east of the Perth CBD, at the junction of the Great Eastern Highway and the Great Southern Highway, and is the easternmost suburb within the Metropolitan Region Scheme. At the 2021 census, The Lakes had a population of 20.

The Lakes Perth, Western Australia
Coordinates	31.876°S 116.321°E / -31.876; 116.321
Population	20 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)	6556
Location	51 km (32 mi) E of the Perth CBD 43.4 km (27 mi) W of York 52.6 km (33 mi) SW of Northam
LGA(s)	Shire of Mundaring
State electorate(s)	Swan Hills
Federal division(s)	Hasluck
Suburbs around The Lakes: Beechina Wooroloo Chidlow The Lakes Gorrie

The main features of the community include a roadhouse and a service station at the junction between the highways. It borders on the western ward of the Shire of Northam and the community of Woottating.

It is also the locality in which Buckeridge Group of Companies (BGC) have quarrying operations.^[2][3][4] BGC trucks carting material from the quarry use as their main route the Great Eastern Highway to various locations in the Perth metropolitan area, including the brick manufacturing location close to Perth Airport.^[5]

From the junction it is possible to travel to Northam on the northern fork, or York on the southern fork.

Notes

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "The Lakes (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
2. Herring Storer Acoustics; BGC (Australia) (2007), Environmental management plan. Operational noise measurement programme mining operations below 5 metres, BGC, Voyager Quarry, The Lakes, Western Australia, Herring Storer Acoustics, retrieved 13 November 2016
3. Western Australia. Environmental Protection Authority; URS Australia. Proposed relocation of the Voyager Quarry : response to submissions (2005), Voyager Quarry, Avon Loc 1881, Lots 11 and 14 Horton Rd, The Lakes : BGC (Australia) Pty Ltd, Environmental Protection Authority, ISBN 978-0-7307-6809-8
4. BGC (Australia); URS Australia (2007), Environmental management plans, Voyager Quarry relocation, The Lakes, W.A., ministerial statement 706, BGC (Australia), retrieved 13 November 2016
5. Westralia Airports Corporation; BGC Clay Products. Environmental review (2005), BGC (Australia) Pty Ltd clay brick manufacturing plant : draft version major development plan, Westralia Airports Corporation, retrieved 13 November 2016

References

• Elliot, Ian (1983). Mundaring - A History of the Shire (2nd ed.). Mundaring: Mundaring Shire. ISBN 0-9592776-0-9.
• Spillman, Ken (2003). Life was meant to be here: community and local government in the Shire of Mundaring. Mundaring: Mundaring Shire. ISBN 0-9592776-3-3.

External links

• The Lakes on Geoscience Australia