Lalor is a diverse and vibrant established suburb which developed in the post war period. Until 1945, Lalor was a part of Thomastown when Leo Purcell, a patient at a military hospital on the Atherton Tablelands, devised a scheme to provide low cost homes for ex-servicemen.
In February 1947 he formed the Peter Lalor Home Building Co-operative Society with a group of exservicemen and a program of house building began. This continued until 1954 when it was taken over by the War Service Homes Commission. Heritage listing of parts of the Peter Lalor Estate in Lalor, which was developed as part of this program, commemorate this important social history.
Today, the hub of Lalor remains the Lalor Shopping centre; a vibrant and thriving shopping precinct with around 100 specialty shops which front onto Station Street, May Road and the Peter Lalor walk. The precinct is also home to Lalor Library.
The suburb has a high number of senior residents aged in their 70s and above (13.9% compared to CoW 8.9%) but is also popular with young couples and families, many of whom were born overseas from countries including India, Iran and Iraq. 62.3% of Lalor residents speak a language other than English at home (compared to CoW 45.1%). Lalor’s population of 23,701 is not expected to exceed 28,000 residents by 2040. Lalor is also home of the Whittlesea Public Gardens located in the western part of the suburb.
The Carlingford and Mosaic Living Development Plan describes the proposed development of these housing estates in the western part of Lalor, just off the Hume Freeway.
Development of the estates will generally follow the plan but may be subject to change.
View the plan
Carlingford and Mosaic Living development Lalor(PDF, 4MB)
The downloadable plan is extracted from the full Development Plan.