Switchboard Upgrades in Canterbury

At around 2600 people per square kilometre, Canterbury has the access that lets us replace a board in a single visit with one planned outage. Sitting at about 70 metres, Canterbury has straightforward access to most boards, which keeps the outage short.

Canterbury sits 10 kilometres from the city. Consumer mains in older homes here are frequently undersized for a modern load. For Canterbury, Boroondara is not involved. The party that matters is the distributor, and only when the service or metering changes.

Canterbury is bracketed by Balwyn and Camberwell, both of which we are in regularly, so scheduling here is rarely the hard part. For scale, the 2021 census counted 7800 people in Canterbury, across about 3 square kilometres of Boroondara, postcode 3126.

Local context worth knowing: 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. Housing from that era typically has a board with no spare ways and no RCD. The area we cover around Canterbury runs through Balwyn, Camberwell, Hawthorn East and Kew East, and a booking in any of them is treated the same way.

Boronia is our base, roughly 18.7 kilometres west of Canterbury. Short distances like that are why we can commit to a time and keep it. A second note on how the suburb came to be: == 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.

There is more to the local history than that: 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.