Optical Fibre Splicing in Park Orchards

Park Orchards is genuinely open at about 404 people per square kilometre, where runs between buildings are long enough that fibre is the only practical option. At approximately 134 metres, Park Orchards has blocks where trenching has to avoid established plantings.

Park Orchards sits about 25 kilometres out in Manningham. Home offices in detached rooms are the usual driver. Part of Park Orchards sits in Manningham and part in Maroondah. Neither council is involved.

Being next to Donvale and Nunawading means Park Orchards is almost never a standalone trip for our crew. For scale, the 2021 census counted 3835 people in Park Orchards, across about 9.5 square kilometres of Manningham, postcode 3114.

For what it is worth on the day: At the 2021 census, Park Orchards recorded a population of 3,835. Development era tells us whether there is existing conduit in the ground, which is the difference between a short job and a long one. Donvale, Nunawading, Ringwood North and Warrandyte and Park Orchards form one continuous area for us rather than a list of separate suburbs.

At roughly 11.3 kilometres north-west of Boronia, Park Orchards is inside the area we cover every week rather than on its edge. On the older parts of the area: == History == In 1902, prominent Victorian orchardist, Tom Petty, purchased 559 acres (226 ha) of land north of the Mitcham district and converted it to 80 orchard blocks.

For context on the older parts of the suburb: In 1925, South Melbourne timber merchants, Australias Sharp and John Taylor, purchased Petty's land and launched the Park Orchards Country Club Estate.