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Parkside was proclaimed in 1849 and built out heavily through the late 19th and early 20th 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-19th and early-20th-century cottages and villas were originally fitted with galvanised steel water pipes, and unrenovated stock still carries this ageing pipework which corrodes internally and restricts flow. 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 Unley Council street-tree program and decades-old private gardens along streets like Robsart Street, Porter Street, and Leicester Street have produced heavy canopy whose roots regularly find the cracks in century-old clay drains. Heritage homes have often had gas connected and re-piped multiple times since the early 1900s, and original-era gas fittings, brittle hemp-and-paste joints, and outdated cooker and hot water connections still turn up during renovations. A large share of owner-occupied heritage cottages still run gas or electric storage hot water units installed during the post-war and late-20th-century renovation waves, now well past typical service life. Streets like Jaffrey Street, George Street, Fuller Street, Maud Street, and Campbell Road carry the bulk of the local stock, 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.