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Yarrawonga Park

26.4 km south-west of Newcastle city centreCity of Lake Macquarie39 min to Catherine Hill Bay Beach1 min to Lake Macquarienext to Myuna Bay and Mirrabooka

Small locality near the western shore. Barely registers as a suburb - a handful of residential properties. Buy for privacy and proximity to the lake at affordable prices.

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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

Yarrawonga Park currently reads steady, at low confidence, the pattern: small locality near western shore.

Development activity

Major projects and active development applications shaping this suburb

Dwelling Alterations and Additions

69 Yoorala Road · Unknown

Demolition, Dwelling House, Swimming Pool and Associated Safety Barriers

68 Yoorala Road · Amended Approval

Swimming Pool and Associated Safety Barriers

28 Yoorala Road · Approved

Demolition, Dwelling House, Swimming Pool and Associated Safety Barriers

68 Yoorala Road · Unknown

Dwelling Alterations and Additions

69 Yoorala Road · 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

Morisset Public School (primary) · NAPLAN at

Morisset High School (secondary) · NAPLAN at

Data: NSW Education · ACARA NAPLAN · MySchool

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Risks

Safety

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 Yarrawonga Park. Which of it falls within 500 m of one particular house is a different question.

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