Doubleview

The name "Doubleview" was chosen because of the extensive views offered of the Indian Ocean to the west and the Darling Ranges and Perth to the east.

One of the first owners of land in Doubleview was John Daniel Manning, a dairy farmer who occupied land in 1895 but did not develop it.  Manning brought his dairy cattle from his South Perth property here in the summer as the string of swamps and lakes meant feed was available during most of the hot weather. The northern section of Doubleview was first subdivided in 1910 by Perth real estate agent Charles Edgar Stoneman.  Land did not sell rapidly, even though the street names duplicated those in Perth, leading many investors to believe they were buying in the city centre.

In 1916 developer M.L. Connor subdivided the southern portion of Doubleview, though once again blocks were slow to sell.  In 1926 a firm of developers called Dudley and Dwyer acquired the unsold lots in both parts of Doubleview. Though they created the name for the area to attract interest, development did not begin to accelerate until the government began providing Returned Soldiers homes in the northern section of Doubleview after World War II.  At this time the Perth Road Board changed many of the duplicated names to avoid confusion with Perth itself, and the changes were gazetted in March 1951.

Doubleview Primary School has become part of history with the planting of a Lone Pine grown from seeds from the pinecone sent to Australia in 1915.  Scarborough Returned and Services League members joined the students for the planting ceremony on National Tree Day on 27th July 2007. 

Doubleview is dominated by single detached dwellings, though there are some scattered unit and duplex developments. Much of the area contains post-war housing, a significant proportion of which was constructed by the government. The majority of dwellings are of timber frame construction, with more recent developments using brick and tile. Some parts of the southern section of Doubleview contain examples of sixties and International style housing.

Doubleview Shopping Town is the main retail outlet for the suburb and is supplemented by older retail strips along Sackville Terrace and Scarborough Beach Road. There are a number of small parks within Doubleview which offer both active and passive recreation, including Bennett Park and John K. Lyon Reserve.