History of Laurimar
Laurimar has been created with a vision and commitment to provide a place to live that offers community, amenity and beautiful open spaces.
Laurimar is a 324 hectare master-planned community in Doreen just 30km north-east of Melbourne CBD.
In 2006 Lend Lease acquired Laurimar from property group DRAPAC, which already had nearly 500 homes established.
Five years later over 4,000 residents enjoy the benefits of living in Laurimar with an expected total of 9,000 to enjoy the community by 2014.
Milestones by Lend Lease have included the construction and completion of the Laurimar Town Centre southern precinct, the opening of Laurimar Primary School with 130 students in the first year and the connection of Hazel Glen Drive to Plenty Road via Masons Bridge.
The City of Whittlesea
Information sourced from here
Laurimar in Doreen is located within the City of Whittlesea municipality along with suburbs such as Bundoora, Mill Park, South Morang, Wollert, Kinglake West and Thomastown.
The first recorded description of Whittlesea was dated December 1824. It was made in the journal of Captain W H Hovell as he and explorer Hamilton Hume attempted to find a way from Sydney to Port Phillip Bay across the Great Dividing Range.
In 1837, George Sherwin settled as a squatter at Whittlesea, then known as Upper Plenty. In 1838/9 the area was surveyed and in 1853 the surveyor, Mason, named Whittlesea after the Town of Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire, England. He also named Epping after another English town, but many other parts of the municipality retain their Aboriginal names, such as Bundoora, Morang, Toorourrong and Yan Yean.
Mason’s survey set out the lines of three north-south routes – the Plenty Road, the Epping Road to Wollert and the Sydney Road, which is now the Hume Highway. The district soon became a vital part of Melbourne’s life, supplying food from its farms and water from the Victorian capital’s first large water storage, Yan Yean reservoir.
History of Doreen
Download here