Daceyville is 7 km south of the Sydney central business district and is now part of Bayside Council (formerly the City of Botany Bay).

The northern area of Pagewood was designed as part of the original Dacey Garden Suburb plan, as an extension of Daceyville.

All residents had enough land to grow their own food, no front or back fences were permitted to facilitate natural surveillance by neighbours, and homes opened at the rear onto small parks where it was expected that children would play.

[citation needed] Sir John Sulman (1849–1934) planned the estate on crown land that had been reserved as a water conservation site.

The development was also linked to a planned extension to the heavy rail line that was proposed to join Bondi Junction and Daceyville.

[3] Residents created the Daceyville Preservation Society to oppose the redevelopment, and garnered the support of the Builders Labourers Federation who were famous for their "Green Bans".

[3] In the 1980s, the NSW Department of Housing embarked on a renewal project in Daceyville, which resulted in a relatively modest densification of the suburb.

[citation needed] Numerous two-storey apartment buildings were constructed as part of the renewal, in a sympathetic architectural style to the rest of Daceyville.

[citation needed] In 2021, the NSW government partnered with Ray White Kingsford to begin auctioning properties in Daceyville, transferring them to private ownership after having previously been used as public housing for over 100 years.

[9] In 2022, the NSW government partnered with N G Farah Kingsford to continue auctioning properties in Daceyville.