Belgrave Heights, Victoria
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| Belgrave Heights Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 1441 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3160 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 1.7 km² (0.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $321,075 [2] | ||||||||||||
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| LGA: | Shire of Yarra Ranges | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Gembrook | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | La Trobe | ||||||||||||
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Belgrave Heights is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the Shire of Yarra Ranges.
In February 1983, the Ash Wednesday fires swept through the area, destroying many houses.
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[edit] Birdsland Reserve
Belgrave Heights has a 75-hectare (190-acre) bushland park called Birdsland. Originally owned by a farming family, the Birds, it was sold to the then Shire of Sherbrooke in 1984 and opened to the public for bushwalking, picnicking and sightseeing. It is a very important habitat link for locally rare Platypus, and a local community group, the Birdsland Advisory Committee, are active in maintaining, developing and protecting the reserve. Among their projects includes a sustainable design education centre and a plant nursery which aims to revegetate the reserve.[3]
Melbourne Water offers stream frontage grants to help landowners apply for money for weed eradication, fencing and more.[4]
[edit] Biodiversity
Belgrave Heights is mainly Sclerophyll Woodland. The dominant overstorey is Acacia melanoxylon, Acacia dealbata, Acacia pycnantha, Eucalyptus cephalocarpa, Eucalyptus cypellocarpa (in areas near Belgrave Lake Park), Eucalyptus goniocalyx growing in and around Birdsland and Zig Zag Road, Eucalyptus obliqua growing through most of the area as well as in Belgrave South, Eucalptus ovata which tends to grow in low-lying areas and Eucalyptus radiata which is quite common in the Belgrave South Primary school grounds with the very fine bark and peppermint smelling leaves.
Animals in the area are:
- Platypus in the Monbulk creek,
- Yellow-bellied Gliders down near Birdsland,
- Sugar Gliders in Birdsland,
- Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos,
- Possums Both Ringtails and Brushtails,
- Tawny Frogmouths.
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Belgrave Heights (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
- ^ Belgrave Heights, accessed 27 November 2006
- ^ Melbourne Water. "Family reserves bush ‘lungs’", The Source. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.
- ^ Melbourne Water. Stream Frontage Management Program. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.
[edit] External links
- Belgrave Heights, Victoria is at coordinates Coordinates:
- Australian Places - Belgrave Heights & Belgrave South
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