5 Blacket Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
It is a house situated on a 770 m² block.
The property sits on a 770 m² lot, offering ample outdoor space.
The nearest Canberra Metro station is on Swinden Street, about 0.1 km away.
Dickson Centre and the Dickson Interchange are each roughly 0.6 km away, providing shops, services and additional transit connections.
The National Hockey Centre is about 0.7 km from the property, offering field‑hockey facilities.
Downer was originally a CSIRO agricultural research site in the 1930s, later used for opium poppy production during World War II, and its historic buildings now form the local community centre and shops.
The site sits on calcareous shales of the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium, the limestone that gave Canberra its early name “Limestone Plains”.
Federally, Downer is in the electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party; in the ACT Legislative Assembly it is part of the Kurrajong electorate.
