St Ives

SItuated in the tranquil and leafy Upper North Shore of Sydney, St Ives is 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

St Ives Shopping Village opened in the 1960s. The centre has over 110 stores, including; Harris Farm Markets, Coles and Woolworths as well as specialty food outlets, boutique fashion stores and cafes.

Village Green is a popular park in St Ives. Village Green is directly opposite St Ives Shopping Village.The park is bordered on three streets, Memorial Avenue, Village Green Parade and Cowan Road. The park includes sporting fields, baseball fields, tennis courts and a skate park.

St Ives is home to many prestigious and high-achieving schools including;

 

St Ives boasts several sporting teams and facilities including;

 

Statistics:

At the 2016 census, St Ives recorded a population of 17,300. Of these:[1]

  • The median age was 42 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 20.8% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 19.7% of the population.
  • 51.8% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were South Africa 8.6%, China 7.1%, England 6.3%, Hong Kong 2.0% and New Zealand 2.0%.
  • 69.0% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 8.7%, Cantonese 3.7%, Korean 2.4%, Persian 1.7% and Spanish 0.9%.
  • The most common responses for religion were No Religion 28.6%, Anglican 17.6%, Catholic 17.3% and Judaism 9.7%.
  • 82.9% of households were family households and 16.2% were single person households.
  • Of occupied private dwellings in St Ives, 70.1% were separate houses, 20.2% were flats or apartments and 9.5% were semi-detached.[1]

 

History:

The St Ives area was first explored by Governor Arthur Phillip and a party of men in 1788 where they set up a campsite at Bungaroo which is close to what is now Hunter Avenue. The area produced a small scale timber felling industry. There are still some examples of the thirty metre and higher trees in nearby Pymble in the Dalrymple Hay forest and near Canisius College. Native turpentine trees were also once abundant and provided useful timber for cabinet making. It was once known for its apple orchards but due to residential demand, there is no longer any commercial fruit growing in the area.[2] During the Second World War there were significant numbers of troops barracked in the area, which provided the impetus to build Archbold Road as a supplementary and emergency route to the city. Since 1950 the suburb has expanded from the central shopping areas and the arterial main roads to include hilltop and valley areas bordering on the surrounding Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to the north, now the area known as St Ives Chase, and Garigal National Park to the east and the south east.

St Ives Post Office opened on 10 November 1885 [3] and the first public school opened on 6 May 1889.[4] The school was formally opened by Mr. J. P. Burns, M.L.A. on Saturday 8 June. After inspecting the “neat and well-designed school and teacher’s residence” the party had a luncheon to mark the occasion.[5]

In the late 1890s, St Ives was populated by market gardeners, a small dairy, orchard workers and related industries.

St Ives Shopping Village opened in the 1960s.

Since the end of the Second World War St Ives has seen its most rapid period of expansion and a steady growth of families moving to the area.

 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ives,_New_South_Wales