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North Lakes (Qld.)
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DescriptionNorth Lakes is one of the youngest suburbs in the Moreton Bay Region - a new style residential and commercial development that is now home to more than 72,000 people. The North Lakes project officially commenced in April 1999, led by commercial developers Lend Lease and Lensworth, who operated across an urban planning framework guided by the then Pine Rivers Shire Council.
Over 130 years ago Alexander Campbell, a sergeant with the Humpy Bong police force, selected the land currently covered by the North Lakes to use as farmland. An absentee landowner, Alexander grazed a small number of cattle on the farm and built a small dwelling. He sold his land in 1883 to a Brisbane real estate agent and developer, who subdivided the land into small country allotments, naming the estate Campbelltown.
The Kinsella family held a large dairy farm near the Kinsella’s Road East area from the 1930s, an area that now forms the northern section of the North Lakes estate. To the south-east, Norman Meyers expanded his pineapple plantation into North Lakes area, remaining there until the 1960s. At that time demand for land became competitive, following the construction of the Australian Paper Manufacturers Mill at Petrie. Throughout the 1970s the company established extensive slash pine plantations in the North Lakes area, feeding the company’s expanding production of paper. By the time the paper mill was winding down operations in the 2000s, much of the land had been released for the North Lakes development.
Over 130 years ago Alexander Campbell, a sergeant with the Humpy Bong police force, selected the land currently covered by the North Lakes to use as farmland. An absentee landowner, Alexander grazed a small number of cattle on the farm and built a small dwelling. He sold his land in 1883 to a Brisbane real estate agent and developer, who subdivided the land into small country allotments, naming the estate Campbelltown.
The Kinsella family held a large dairy farm near the Kinsella’s Road East area from the 1930s, an area that now forms the northern section of the North Lakes estate. To the south-east, Norman Meyers expanded his pineapple plantation into North Lakes area, remaining there until the 1960s. At that time demand for land became competitive, following the construction of the Australian Paper Manufacturers Mill at Petrie. Throughout the 1970s the company established extensive slash pine plantations in the North Lakes area, feeding the company’s expanding production of paper. By the time the paper mill was winding down operations in the 2000s, much of the land had been released for the North Lakes development.
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