| Kembla Heights Wollongong, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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  Kembla Heights | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°25′50″S 150°48′25″E / 34.43056°S 150.80694°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 88 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2526 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Wollongong | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Keira | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Cunningham | ||||||||||||||
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Kembla Heights is a village west of Wollongong, New South Wales in the Parish of Kembla County of Camden.[2] It is situated along Harry Graham Drive and upper Cordeaux Road and is part of a tourist route that runs along the Illawarra escarpment for a distance between Mount Kembla and Mount Keira. The Dendrobium Colliery (Illawara Coal, South32) is located in Kembla Heights.
The entire village of Kembla Heights is a heritage conservation area under the Wollongong City Council Development Control Plan "Kembla Heights is the most intact mining village in the Wollongong Local Government Area with its simple, consistent late Victorian and early Federation period cottages".[3] It is in fact the last remaining coal mining village that is company owned in the Illawarra today. The southern portion of Cordeaux Road, Kembla Heights, is known as Windy Gully, it is partially company owned and in private ownership and also part of the Kembla Heights Heritage Conservation Area.[4] The historic Windy Gully Cemetery is located in this portion of Kembla Heights and is still company owned.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Kembla Heights". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "Kembla Heights". wollongong.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ Wollongong City Council (2009). "Wollongong DCP 2009 Chapter E11 – Heritage Conservation" (PDF). Wollongong City Council. p. 21. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Kembla Heights Conservation Area | NSW Environment & Heritage". www.environment.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
