Davoren Park

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = suburb | name = Davoren Park | state = sa | city = Adelaide | image = | caption = | lga = City of Playford | postcode = 5113 | pop =  | est = 1993 |fedgov = Spence |stategov = Taylor |coordinates = {{coord|34|41|29|S|138|40|5|E|display=inline,title}} | alternative_location_map=Australia Greater Adelaide | near-n = Smithfield Plains | near-ne = Smithfield | near-e = Elizabeth North | near-se = | near-s = Edinburgh North | near-sw = | near-w = Eyre | near-nw = Andrews Farm }} '''Davoren Park''' is a suburb at the northern extent of the Adelaide metropolitan area, South Australia in the City of Playford. The suburb was formed as renaming of '''Elizabeth Field''' and the residential northern part of Elizabeth West which at the time were in the City of Munno Para.<ref name="PLB">{{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |id=SA0018142 |title=Placename Details: Davoren Park |accessdate=26 November 2014 |date=11 March 2009 |publisher=Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> on 11 November 1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.landservices.sa.gov.au/1online_services/55Place_Names/_files/Suburbs_and_rural_localities_List.pdf |page=25 |title=Suburb and Locality Map Index |date=2 August 2012 |publisher=Land Services SA |accessdate=11 September 2014}}</ref> It was named after Davoren Road which is on the northern boundary of the suburb adjacent to Smithfield Plains. The Davoren family lived in Smithfield. Austin Davoren, who was a railway employee at Smithfield, died on 2 August 1924.<ref>{{cite web | title=Family Notices | work=Southern Cross | date=29 July 1927 | page=10 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167803090 }}</ref><ref name="PLB"/>

The Playford North Urban Renewal project to expand and upgrade the area commenced in 2007 and is expected to take 10–15 years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.playford.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/LMC0039_Playford_North_Q_A.pdf |title=Playford North Urban Renewal Project: Questions and Answers |publisher=City of Playford |work=Playford.sa.gov.au |accessdate=28 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402084451/https://www.playford.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/LMC0039_Playford_North_Q_A.pdf |archive-date=2 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The project focuses on the ''Peachey Belt'' (an unofficial designation roughly comprising Davoren Park, Smithfield and Smithfield Plains), which has been identified as a disadvantaged area.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Playford Alive|url=http://www.playford.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=571|accessdate=7 July 2010|archive-date=8 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308120754/http://www.playford.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=571|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== In popular culture ==

* Davoren Park is featured prominently in the second season of the Australian political thriller ''Secret City''. {{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

==See also== * City of Playford * List of Adelaide suburbs

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Category:Suburbs of Adelaide