What sets Lane Cove apart
A flats boom from 1962
The first block went up in 1962 and nearly 200 followed by 1979, along the main roads. The side streets kept their houses.
Mostly units, a third rented
At the 2021 Census, 62.4% of Lane Cove's 4,956 occupied homes were units and 30.3% were houses. 37.3% were rented.
Bush in the gullies
The Lane Cove River cuts a sandstone gorge here, and around 16% of the suburb is public recreation land, with bushland along the river near Riverview and Lane Cove West.
Ausgrid network
Lane Cove is inside Ausgrid's network area. Report fallen wires and outages to Ausgrid on 13 13 88.
EV charging in a 1960s or 1970s block
The building's supply was sized long before anyone plugged in a car. Before a committee approves one charger, it's worth knowing how many the main switchboard and supply could carry, because the second and third requests won't be far behind.
In NSW, a wall charger in an apartment currently needs strata approval under the Strata Schemes Management Act. A bill passed in October 2026 will give owners a right to install charging on their own lot without unreasonable objection, but no start date had been announced. If the supply needs upgrading, Ausgrid requires a connection application, which it recommends the electrician lodges.
Questions for the strata meeting
- Has anyone checked the building's maximum demand and how much spare capacity there is?
- Where would chargers draw power from: each unit's meter, or a shared supply with separate billing?
- Who owns the cable runs through the car park once they're installed?
- When was the main switchroom last inspected, and are there safety switches on common circuits?
Houses backing onto bushland
On the 'five fingers' of Greenwich, Northwood, Longueville, Riverview and Linley Point, steep slopes and tall eucalypts mean trees and lines meet. Ausgrid says the homeowner is responsible for clearing growth on their own property near the service wire, using an accredited contractor, not a ladder and a saw.
What we'd ask the strata first
Before anyone in an older Lane Cove block buys a charger, we'd ask the strata to get a load assessment of the whole building done once, by an electrician who does EV work in apartment car parks. It turns one-off arguments into a plan. Tell us the building's suburb and what you need, and we'll match one licence-checked local electrician to it, if we have one.
Want a specialist to sort it?
Tell us the job and your postcode. We match the licence-checked local electrician who does this kind of work, and they call you. No ring-around, and your number goes to them alone.