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Pinny Beach

25.8 km south-west of Newcastle city centreCity of Lake Macquarie4 min to Catherine Hill Bay Beach2 min to Lake Macquarienext to Nords Wharf and Cams Wharf

Micro-locality on the Wallarah Peninsula. Barely a dozen properties. Raw beach access and complete seclusion. Not a suburb in any practical sense - more a postal designation for a handful of coastal homes.

About Lake Macquarie

Lake Mac is where Newcastle people move when they want space, water, and a slower clock. The vibe is family-friendly, boat-friendly, retirement-friendly.

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Lake Mac Vibes editorial assessment

Building approvals Licensed venues Late trading Contaminated land Recent sales

Basemap: OpenStreetMap via Protomaps Findings: council registers, NSW Liquor & Gaming, NSW contaminated land register

Momentum: steady

Pinny Beach currently reads steady, at low confidence, the pattern: tiny coastal locality, limited data.

Development activity

Major projects and active development applications shaping this suburb

Dwelling House

96 Mine Camp Road · Unknown

6 into 264 - staged subdivision - Torrens and Community Title plus Public Drainage Reserves and Public Reserve

532 Old Pacific Highway · Amended Approval

6 into 264 - staged subdivision - Torrens and Community Title plus Public Drainage Reserves and Public Reserve

532 Old Pacific Highway · Unknown

Data: Newcastle & Lake Macquarie Councils + NSW Planning Portal

Price trajectory

Too few sales here in the past year to publish a median. A price from a handful of sales says more about those houses than about the suburb.

NSW Valuer General via nswpropertysalesdata.com

Commercial vibe

Lifestyle venues that signal neighbourhood trajectory

OpenStreetMap data · Updated monthly

Living here

Groceries, medical, terrain, transport, schools

Terrain: mostly flat.

Data: OpenStreetMap · Terrain curated · Updated quarterly

Schools

Swansea Public School (primary) · NAPLAN at

Lake Munmorah High School (secondary) · NAPLAN at

Data: NSW Education · ACARA NAPLAN · MySchool

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What's happening next door

Adjacent suburbs and how their signals relate

Risks

Safety

Data: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research · three-year momentum

Crime is counted per suburb. What a Surroundings Report adds for one address →

Noise sources

Rail: quiet, No rail corridors within 500m. Construction: No significant construction.

Data: OpenStreetMap roads · Transport for NSW traffic counts and rail corridors · NSW Liquor & Gaming

A late-trading venue two streets away is not the same as one at the fence line. Noise within 500 m of an address →

Those risks are suburb-wide. Yours might not be.

Everything above describes Pinny Beach. Which of it falls within 500 m of one particular house is a different question.

What is in a Surroundings Report · from $29

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