Canterbury is about 2600 people per square kilometre. Straightforward properties where small problems are cheap to catch early. Sitting at about 70 metres, Canterbury has properties where RCD testing and board inspection cover most of the risk.
Canterbury is about 10 kilometres from the CBD, where older installations and modern loads meet. That is exactly the combination where scheduled checks pay for themselves. In Boroondara, which includes Canterbury, there is no application to lodge, only a standard to meet and evidence we met it.
We treat Canterbury, Balwyn and Camberwell as one working area rather than three separate postcodes. 7800 residents at the 2021 census, about 3 square kilometres, postcode 3126: that is the scale of Canterbury within Boroondara.
Some background on the place: In 1900 Snowden's estate was subdivided and sold off to form what is now Monomeath Avenue and residents such as notable architect Percey Kernot and prominent citizen George Coghill moved in. Build era predicts what an inspection will find and how long it will take. Day to day we are across Canterbury and the streets either side of it: Balwyn, Camberwell, Hawthorn East and Kew East. Same crew, same rates, same certificate at the end.
Our workshop is in Boronia, 18.7 kilometres west of Canterbury. That proximity is the whole reason we can hold a fixed quote rather than pricing in the unknown. There is more to the local history than that: == History ==
The railway station is in many ways responsible for the suburb's existence: before the opening of the railway to the City in 1882, the area was a semi-rural area.
Something else that shows up in the housing here: The first subdivision in the area came in 1885, when Michael Logan created the 'Claremont Park Estate' within the area of Canterbury Road, Bryson Street, Prospect Hill Road and Logan Street.