Meadow Heights, Victoria

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Meadow Heights
Melbourne, Victoria
Population: 14,559 (2006)[1]
Established: 1980s
Postcode: 3048
Area: 4.6 km² (1.8 sq mi)
Property Value: AUD $240,000 [2]
Location: 21 km (13 mi) from Melbourne
LGA: City of Hume
State District: Broadmeadows
Federal Division: Calwell
Suburbs around Meadow Heights:
Greenvale Roxburgh Park Somerton
Greenvale Meadow Heights Coolaroo
Attwood Broadmeadows Dallas

Meadow Heights is an outer suburb located in the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Hume.

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[edit] History

Meadow Heights underwent a property boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as demand for new houses rose, forcing prospective buyers into the outer suburban area. In recent years, developers have focused their efforts on suburbs to the North, with very few new housing projects being completed since 2000. Back then Meadow Heights was apart of Coolaroo with its officially name as Coolaroo West. Today residents on the Southern part of Meadow Heights (under Centro Meadow Heights) still call it Coolaroo although Coolaroo is on the other side of the railway track. But Meadow Heights still share the same post code (3048) as of Coolaroo's.

[edit] Connections

Bordered on the East by Pascoe Vale Road, parkland on the west and an inaccessible Somerton Road to the north, Meadow Heights is served by two bus routes operated by Northern Bus Lines, the 541 and 542 services. There is also the 544, a new busline which runs along Pascoe Vale rd, on the edge of Meadow Heights. The nearest train station is located approximately 4 kilometres to the south, at Broadmeadows station. The area is served extensively by local taxi companies.

[edit] Shopping and Attractions

Meadow Heights offers little in the way of attractions, with the nearest cinema complex being located to the south, in Broadmeadows. There are several youth centres for social activities, and there is both an AFL affiliated and a soccer team in the area.

There are around four milk bars; on Bicentennial Crescent and Magnolia Boulevard in the North, Taggerty Crescent in the centre, and one on El Dorado Crescent two the south.

The main shopping centre is Centro Meadow Heights which is located on Paringa Boulevard, it features a SUPA IGA and over 25 specialty shops which includes a fish & chips shop, newsagentcy, tattslotto, and a post office .The centre is undergoing a development which would include an aldi supermarket and an extra 5 specialty stores to the centre.

There is also a mosque in Meadow Heights which provides a means for worship for Muslims next to the mosque there is a visy cares learning centre which teaches computer skills and takewondo and also features an early child unit where mums take their babies for check-ups.

[edit] Demographics

A sizeable portion of Meadow Heights is non-Anglo-Australian, with the main ethnic groups being Turkish (about a quarter of Meadow Heights's population according to the ABS 2001 census), Lebanese, and, to a lesser extent, Syrian.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Meadow Heights (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  2. ^ Meadow Heights, accessed 20 March 2008

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