Orange’s newest streets will be called Crabapple Close, Monarch Drive and Sunray Place.
Under state regulations (Section 162 of the Roads Act 1993) Orange City Council is required to inform the community about new street names by placing an item on the council website.
Crabapple Close (Road No 1 in the map at right) will run east off of Clergate road, with an internal community road extending South off of Crabapple Close.
The name of the new street takes its origins from the nearby Orange Botanic Gardens.
The Orange Botanic Gardens has a collection of over 76 Apple Species and 25 Crabapple Species.
Monarch Drive, in a subdivision off Miriam Drive (marked in pink) in north Orange, extending east-southeast off the previously approved Lakeside Drive, opposite Scarborough Street.
The road encompasses the southern aspect of the detention basin, extending east into the subdivision.
The street is names after the Monarch Flycatcher, following the naming convention of the subdivision, relating to native Australian birds.
Sunray Place is a cul-de-sac in West Orange, proposed to extend south-south-west off Borrodell Drive, running almost in parallel to Gartrell Way.
The street takes its names from as native plant of the area called the Hoary Sunray (otherwise known as the ‘paper daisy’).
