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Chadstone is a suburb in
Many of the houses in the Chadstone area were built in the postwar period using prefabricated concrete produced at the current site of Holmesglen Institute. The houses tend to be quite small, with two to three bedrooms and large blocks. It is relatively common for houses to be demolished and larger houses built to take advantage of the block size.
Chadstone Post Office opened on 8 April 1957 and Chadstone Centre Post Office opened on 3 October 1960. The Chadstone office closed in 1998.
Chadstone was home to Jordanville South Primary School on Baradine Street, which closed down at the end of the school year in 1993. It was also home to Chadstone High School (now closed), and Waverley High School (originally named Holmesglen High School, then renamed Jordanville High School and finally Waverley High School not to be confused with Mount Waverley High School located in Mount Waverley) which closed down in 1996. Chadstone's "Christ Campus" of the
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Australian Places: Chadstone
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, Victoria
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, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District
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, located within the City of Monash
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local government area
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. Chadstone recorded a population of 9,552 at the 2021 census.
Landmarks include the Waverley Basketball Centre, Jordanville Community Centre and the Matthew Flinders Hotel. Scotchmans Creek runs along Chadstone's southern boundary, the Glen Waverley railway line
The Glen Waverley line is a commuter railway line in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Operated by Metro Trains Melbourne, it is the city's sixth shortest metropolitan railway line at . The line runs from Flinders Street station in ce ...
along the northern boundary, Warrigal Road to the west and Huntingdale Road to the east. The Monash Freeway
The Monash Freeway is a major urban freeway in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, linking Melbourne's CBD to its south-eastern suburbs and beyond to the Gippsland region. It carries up to 180,000 vehicles per day and is one of Australi ...
runs through the suburb.
History
Many of the houses in the Chadstone area were built in the postwar period using prefabricated concrete produced at the current site of Holmesglen Institute. The houses tend to be quite small, with two to three bedrooms and large blocks. It is relatively common for houses to be demolished and larger houses built to take advantage of the block size.
Chadstone Post Office opened on 8 April 1957 and Chadstone Centre Post Office opened on 3 October 1960. The Chadstone office closed in 1998.
Chadstone was home to Jordanville South Primary School on Baradine Street, which closed down at the end of the school year in 1993. It was also home to Chadstone High School (now closed), and Waverley High School (originally named Holmesglen High School, then renamed Jordanville High School and finally Waverley High School not to be confused with Mount Waverley High School located in Mount Waverley) which closed down in 1996. Chadstone's "Christ Campus" of the Australian Catholic University
Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a public university in Australia. It has seven Australian campuses and also maintains a campus in Rome.
History
Australian Catholic University was opened on 1 January 1991 following the amalgamation ...
closed down in the early 2000s, its land being bought by Chadstone Shopping Centre
Chadstone Shopping Centre (colloquially known as Chaddy) is a shopping centre located in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Malvern East. Chadstone Shopping Centre is the largest indoor shopping centre in Australia by both floor area and nu ...
to expand.
Today
Chadstone is a small suburb, with parts previously known as Chadstone being rezoned to be incorporated intoMalvern East
Malvern East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km south-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Stonnington local government area. Malvern East recorded a population of 22,296 at the 2021 ...
. Several landmarks such as Chadstone Shopping Centre
Chadstone Shopping Centre (colloquially known as Chaddy) is a shopping centre located in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Malvern East. Chadstone Shopping Centre is the largest indoor shopping centre in Australia by both floor area and nu ...
and the Chadstone campus of Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
Holmesglen Institute is a vocational education and higher education institute situated primarily in the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
History
Since its inception in 1982, Holmesglen has grown from a delivery of 90 programs to 7 ...
have retained their original names despite now being technically located in Malvern East. The current Chadstone locality incorporates an area formerly known as Jordanville (even though Jordanville Station is technically in Mount Waverley).
There are two schools in Chadstone, both of which are Roman Catholic
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Independent schools. They are Salesian College and St Mary Magdalen's Primary School.
Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 8,641 people in Chadstone. 46.3% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China 11.2%, India 4.5%, Sri Lanka 3.1%, Greece 2.8% and Malaysia 2.1%. 43.7% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 12.4%, Greek 7.2%, Cantonese 3.4%, Italian 2.8% and Sinhalese 2.4%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 32.7% and Catholic 20.0%. Material was copied from this source, which is available underCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
See also
*City of Oakleigh
The City of Oakleigh was a Local government in Australia, local government area about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1891 until 1994.
Hist ...
– Chadstone was previously within this former local government area.
* Chadstone Football Club
References
External links
Australian Places: Chadstone
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