Middleton Grange is a

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, in the state of

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. Middleton Grange is located 40 kilometres west of the

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, in the

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of the City of Liverpool and is part of the

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region. Middleton Grange consists of approx 2550 lots with provision made by Council. Major land developers are now developing and selling housing blocks (around 700 lots), along with some smaller land individual holders/farmers. Middleton Grange has

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and high Council infrastructure contributions.

History

The suburb was officially created in 2005. Middleton Grange was considered by Liverpool City Council for rezoning to residential lots in the early 1990s. This progressed with lobbying by the land owners and other interested parties until Liverpool City Council started moving forward in 1999. LandPro Corporation, together with land owners continued to push the issue, Rene Licata in 2002 attending numerous council meetings until rezoning was achieved in 2005, with the council acquiring land for drainage and other services, including sewer upgrading works with the funding provided by Landcom (completed by Sydney Water). Rene Licata discovered the story of Rowden "Ron" Middleton who was on the 29th mission in Turin, Italy during World War II when his plane was damaged by enemy fire. With his crew injured he managed to fly the crippled plane back to England but could not land so he forced his crew out in parachutes to save them and flew out to sea where his plane crashed and died. He became the first fighter pilot to receive the Victoria Cross for bravery during World War II. Rene also was able rename the suburb from Hoxton Park East to Middleton Grange and was also able to name the streets to promote the area's heritage with Lockheed Ave, Cessna St, and Qantas Boulevard just a few of the aptly-named streets. Rene Licata in 2014 returned to realise his dream and vision for the new suburb. Liverpool council recommended in December of 2015 to have the site approved for residential living with apartments, restaurants, medical center, hotel, childcare, commercial offices, reception/entertainment facilities and parklands.

Demographics

In Middleton Grange, 55.2% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were

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14.3%,

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2.9%,

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1.8%,

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1.6% and

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1.5%. The most common ancestries in Middleton Grange were Australian 14.5%, Assyrian 13.3%, English 9.6%, Italian 8.9% and Iraqi 5.6%. The most common responses for religion were

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37.6%, No Religion 11.8%, Islam 8.2%, Assyrian Apostolic 6.9% and Eastern Orthodox 6.0%.

Education

The area is serviced by two schools – Middleton Grange Public School opened in 2009 and Thomas Hassall Anglican College opened in 2000 and caters for pre school through to year 12.

Places of worship and culture

The suburb is home to a prominent Assyrian church, ''St Zaia Cathedral'', which is part of the

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, an Eastern Christian denomination that follows the

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. It was established in 1996. The church's liturgical language is in

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and Syriac. The Serbian Cultural Club, a now closed

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social club, is situated in this suburb.

References

{{Sydney Liverpool suburbs Suburbs of Sydney City of Liverpool (New South Wales)