Mount Waverley, Victoria
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Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash. It is a large suburb that stretches from Highbury Road in the North to Ferntree Gully Road in the South. At the centre of the suburb is Mount Waverley Village shopping centre. Mount Waverley has its own train station on the Glen Waverley line and several schools including Mount Waverley Secondary College, Avila College, Mount Waverley Primary School, Syndal South Primary School, Sussex Heights Primary School, Essex Heights Primary School, Mount Waverley North Primary School and Huntingtower School.
The shopping centre "Mount Waverley Village" went through some hard times in the late 90s when the Woolworths supermarket closed down. There is now bustling commerce in the "village."
Mount Waverley is famous for its heritage streets. The suburb was originally a new estate in the 1930s. Due to the onset of the Great depression, the estate did not get off the ground. The streets had been laid down, but no houses were built. These streets were built of concrete, not ashphalt. The surface is still the same as it was in the 1930s, with only minor maintenance over the decades. Residential development did not resurge until the 1950s, claimed by some to be the golden age of Australia. The concrete streets close vicinity to the Mount Waverley Village give the suburb a unique charm within Melbourne.
| Melbourne suburbs near Mount Waverley (City of Monash) | ||
| Burwood | Burwood East | Vermont South |
| Chadstone Ashwood | Mount Waverley | Glen Waverley |
|---|---|---|
| Oakleigh | Notting Hill | Clayton
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See also
| Suburbs of the City of Monash | |
|---|---|
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Ashwood |
Chadstone |
Clayton |
Clayton North |
Glen Waverley |
Hughesdale |
Huntingdale |
Mount Waverley |
Mulgrave |
Notting Hill |
Oakleigh |
Oakleigh East |
Oakleigh South |
Wheelers Hill
| |
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