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The Serpentine-Jarrahdale Road District was established on August 8, 1913 with the merger of the Serpentine Road District (1894) and the Jarrahdale Road District (1902). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On July 1, 1961, it became a Shire following the passage of the Local Government Act 1960 , which reformed all remaining road districts into shires.
Rivers Regional Council – 6 LGAs (4 cities and 2 shires) [20] City of Armadale; City of Gosnells; City of Mandurah; City of South Perth; Shire of Murray; Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale; Southern Metropolitan Regional Council – 5 LGAs (4 cities and 1 town) [21] City of Cockburn; City of Fremantle; City of Kwinana; City of Melville; Town of ...
On 1 July 1977, its Byford Ward was abolished and transferred to the Shire of Serpentine–Jarrahdale. [4] On 1 July 1979 it became the Town of Armadale and on 16 November 1985 it assumed its current name when attained city status. [3] The City of Armadale maintains 615 km of roads and a little over 14 km² of parks and gardens.
Rob Coales (born 1975/1976) is an Australian politician and the current president of the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale since winning a landslide election victory in 2023, becoming the Shire's first directly-elected leader. [1] Coales is also a member of the Western Australian Police Force as a police sergeant. [2]
Byford and the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale's only secondary-only school is the government Byford Secondary College, which opened in 2014. The Byford Community Kindergarten was built in 1978. In March 2017, Department of Fire and Emergency Services deemed it high risk to bushfire due to surrounding bushland. It reopened in 2019. [56] [57]
There are more than 350 [citation needed] suburbs in the Perth metropolitan region (colloquially known as Perth, the capital city of Western Australia) as of 2021. The name and boundary of a locality (commonly referred to as a suburb in the metropolitan region [according to whom?]) is determined under the authority of the Minister of Lands in Western Australia, and form an official component ...
The Saint Stephen's Church in Serpentine is an Anglican church part of the Diocese of Perth's Parish of Serpentine-Jarrahdale. [15] The church's foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of Perth, Charles Riley on 10 May 1913, with the church being consecrated on 6 December 1913. Plans for a stone church in Serpentine dated back to 1885. [16]
Jarrahdale is a small historic town located 45 km south-east of Perth, Western Australia in the Darling Range.The name is derived from its situation in a jarrah forest. . Established in the late 1800s as the state's first major timber milling operation, it played a key role in the development of Western Australia through the exportation of jarrah around the worl