At around 3664 people per square kilometre, Macleod homes sit close together, so noise, access and keeping the site tidy matter as much as the work itself. Macleod is about 14 kilometres from the CBD, where period homes carry original features worth protecting and wiring that often is not. We check before we assume.
Macleod is shared by Darebin and Banyule, and we confirm the right one when a permit question comes up. A job in Macleod usually sits alongside something we already have booked in Bundoora or Bundoora<br/>Watsonia that week.
For scale, the 2021 census counted 9892 people in Macleod, across about 2.7 square kilometres of Darebin, postcode 3085. Some background on the place: The land transfer was examined as part of the 1909 Royal Commission on the Acquisition of Certain Estates by Sir Thomas Bent. Build era is the single best guide to what we will find at the board.
The area we cover around Macleod runs through Bundoora, Bundoora<br/>Watsonia, Heidelberg Heights<br/>Heidelberg West and Rosanna, and a booking in any of them is treated the same way. We are based in Boronia, about 25.4 kilometres north-west of Macleod. Close enough that the person who quotes the job is the person who comes back to do it.
Macleod railway station is the historic centre of Macleod, and the housing around it reflects that. For context on the older parts of the suburb: On 19 December 1908, a portion of this land measuring 31.51 hectares was sold to the State Government of Victoria for £2375, or £30 per acre to enable the construction of a branch railway line from the Hurstrbridge railway to the neighbouring Mont Park asylum.
Another piece of background on the suburb: Charles Henry James MLC purchased the Strathallan estate from the McLean family in December 1888 for £234,000 but his purchase was subject to protracted legal battles and disputes that continued until 1891, by which time Mr.