Rowville, Victoria
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Rowville is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is situated in the local municipality of the City of Knox.
Rowville is named after the Rowe family whose property Stamford Park was established in 1882. The Stamford Park homestead has in recent years been restored by Knox Council. Physically Rowville is one of the largest suburbs in the South-eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Rowville has developed rapidly over the 1980s and 1990s, especially in terms of housing and light industrial activities. Culturally though, Rowville is, like much of Melbourne’s outer suburbs, still developing. This development has included the construction of a new shopping centre called 'Welllington Village' on Wellington Road which complements the largest shopping centre in the suburb, Stud Park. This centre is the location for the Rowville Library and the Rowville Community Centre, where, each October, the Stringybark Festival is held. This popular event, organised by Knox Council, focuses on environmental sustainability. Three golf courses provide Rowville with great leisure outlets for the burgeoning population of mainly young families.
Transport
Rowville is a heavily car dependent community with most families having at least 2 cars with 5 or 6 cars per household not uncommon, depending on the number of children of driving age still living at home.The current State Government has proposed that the public transport problems will be resolved by the implementation of what is known as the SmartBus system, which includes special bus lanes on major traffic routes. However, the SmartBus system has not been implemented 4 years after it was announced and the building of the exclusive bus lanes in Stud Road, in preparation for it's implementation, is causing even more traffic problems in the area. Whilst there have been some successful implementations of the SmartBus systems in some areas of Melbourne, there have been some problems with it's implementation in others.
Despite consistent lobbying from local councils, residents and the Public Transport Users Association who believe that a heavy rail link is the way of the future, the State Government will not consider it (despite promising to investigate it's viability if elected). The State Opposition has indicated that it will have an investigation into into the viability of a Rail service to Rowville if elected.
The general consensus among Rowville residents is that any Rowville Rail Link would go along Wellington Road (which was once a railway reservation, but turned into a road by previous governments) to provide a form of mass transit to this growing suburb. The stations proposed Rowville are Rowville Parkway and Stud Park. These however, have not been officially guaranteed, in fact there has been much debate over the Victorian State Government’s decision to fund new motor tollways (such as EastLink), rather than extending rail services to Rowville.
Governance
Federally
Rowville is in the Federal Division of Aston which is held by The Honorable Chris Pearce of the Liberal Party of Australia.
State
Rowville is split down the middle with half of the suburb in the State Lower House seat of Scoresby which is held by Kim Wells of the Liberal Party of Australia and the State Lower House seat of Ferntree Gully which is held by Anne Eckstein of the Australian Labor Party.
Council
Rowville is part of the City of Knox and has 3 ward councillors representing it.
Taylor Ward - Tony Kamitsis
Friberg Ward - Debbie Field
Tirhatuan Ward - Mick Van de Vreede
| Suburbs of the City of Knox | |
|---|---|
|
Bayswater |
Boronia |
Ferntree Gully |
Knoxfield |
Lysterfield |
Rowville |
Scoresby |
The Basin |
Wantirna |
Wantirna South
| |
External links
History - External Link
http://www.rlcnews.org.au/stories/the_changing_landscape/discovering_the_history_of_rowville_and_lysterfield.php
Governance - External Links
http://www.chrispearcemp.com/
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=A8W
http://www.vic.liberal.org.au/default.cfm?action=people_details&ID=85&candidate=1&CFID=1821391&CFTOKEN=90061115
http://www.vic.alp.org.au/people/people.html?seat=ferntreegully
http://www.knox.vic.gov.au/content.cfm?infopageID=1789
http://www.knox.vic.gov.au/content.cfm?infopageID=249
http://www.knox.vic.gov.au/content.cfm?infopageID=1788
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