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Parkside was proclaimed in 1849 and built out heavily through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, leaving a streetscape rich in single-fronted Victorian cottages, bluestone-walled terraces, and sandstone-fronted villas. The Unley Heritage Research Study documents extensive 1880s-era stock across the suburb, with further consolidation through the interwar and post-war years and a more recent layer of medium-density infill close to the Unley Road precinct. Many of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century cottages were originally fitted with galvanised steel water pipes, and unrenovated stock still carries this ageing pipework which corrodes internally and restricts flow at the kitchen tap. Sewer and stormwater drainage in the older streets was laid in earthenware clay during the Victorian and interwar build-out, and these jointed pipes crack and leak as ground moves and mature street trees take hold. The City of Unley street-tree program and decades-old private gardens along Robsart Street, Porter Street, and Leicester Street have produced heavy canopy whose roots regularly find the cracks in the century-old clay drains. A large share of owner-occupied heritage cottages still run gas or electric storage hot water units installed during the post-war and late-twentieth-century renovation waves, now well past typical service life. Local stock spans Jaffrey Street, George Street, Fuller Street, Maud Street, Campbell Road, and Glen Osmond Road, with Parkside Primary School, St Raphael's School, Howard Florey Reserve, Henry Codd Reserve, and McLeay Park anchoring the streetscape under the City of Unley.