Rivervale
Rivervale sits on the south bank of the Swan River east of Burswood, along Great Eastern Highway, in the City of Belmont. It was called Burswood until the 1920s and is now a mix of post-war houses, townhouses and riverside apartments.
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The housing
The 2021 Census counted 5,991 private dwellings in Rivervale. Of the occupied ones, 42.6 per cent were separate houses, 21.2 per cent were semi-detached houses or townhouses and 36.1 per cent were flats or apartments. Much of the suburb was built after the Second World War: in 1948 the State Housing Commission took up 422 blocks here for rental housing, and the land around Wilson Park was subdivided in 1953. On Toorak Road, a group of brick houses built between 1949 and 1957 under the 2/28th Battalion Association housing scheme for returned servicemen is on the City of Belmont heritage list. Several streets, including Kooyong Road, Fitzroy Road and St Kilda Road, take their names from Melbourne suburbs. Near the river, The Springs precinct between Great Eastern Highway, Graham Farmer Freeway, Brighton Road and the foreshore is planned for medium density housing and mixed use under a structure plan approved in December 2009.
Shops and cafes
Great Eastern Highway is Rivervale’s main road, and The Springs structure plan places its commercial uses along the highway frontage. For a full shopping centre, Belmont Forum at 227 Belmont Avenue in neighbouring Cloverdale is the nearest, and Crown Perth is just across the highway in Burswood.
Parks and open space
Cracknell Park on the river foreshore was a bathing spot known as The Springs before 1900 and took its present name in 1964. Wilson Park at 128 Kooyong Road, named in 1965 after long-serving councillor Francis David Wilson, has netball courts and the Rivervale Community Centre, which opened in 2001. Jack Ring Park on Surrey Road opened in 2008, and the former Hardey Park on the river was renamed Bilya Kard Boodja Lookout in 2015.
Getting around
Burswood Station on the Armadale Line is about 700 metres from The Springs precinct by the river. High frequency bus route 940 runs between Elizabeth Quay Bus Station and Redcliffe Station along Great Eastern Highway. Graham Farmer Freeway runs along the suburb’s northern side.
Education
Tranby Primary School, a government school for Kindergarten to Year 6, is at 99 Acton Avenue. St Augustine’s School, a Catholic primary school for Kindergarten to Year 6, is at 34 Gladstone Road.
The history of Rivervale
How Rivervale got its name and how it grew: read our Rivervale history.
Our sales in Rivervale
KPR has settled 38 sales in Rivervale. Where a home has sold through us more than once, each sale is counted.
- 66 Great Eastern Highway: 13 sales
- 54 Nannine Place: 5 sales
- 3 Homelea Court: 4 sales
- 12 Tanunda Drive: 2 sales
- 20 Rowe Avenue: 2 sales
- 62 Great Eastern Highway: 2 sales
- 66 Riversdale Road: 2 sales
- 1 Fitzroy Road: 1 sale
- 5 Hawksburn Road: 1 sale
- 5 Rowe Avenue: 1 sale
- 6 Brighton Road: 1 sale
- 15 Tanunda Drive: 1 sale
- 18 Tanunda Drive: 1 sale
- 56 Riversdale Road: 1 sale
- 183 Kooyong Road: 1 sale
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