Maddington, Western Australia
| Maddington Perth, Western Australia |
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 One of the buildings that form part of the original farm in Maddington |
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 Maddington
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| Population: | 9136[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 6109 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 10.7 km² (4.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 20 km (12 mi) SE of Perth | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Gosnells | ||||||||||||
| State electorate: | Forrestfield, Gosnells | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Hasluck | ||||||||||||
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Coordinates: 32°02′56″S 115°59′24″E / 32.049°S 115.990°E
Maddington is a suburb 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, within the City of Gosnells local government area. Maddington is a mixed-use suburb containing major residential, retail and industrial sections as well as some semi-rural areas, and it is classified as a "regional centre" by the Western Australian Planning Commission.[2]
Unusual amongst the surrounding suburbs Maddington still retains several vineyards and orchards from when the locality was used for agricultural purposes. Maddington has a railway station and like numerous other centres, has been engaging in transit-oriented development planning.[3]
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[edit] History
During the 19th century, Maddington was owned by John Randall Phillips, one of the wealthier colonists to arrive in Perth during the 1830s. Maddington Farm, which Phillips named after a town in Wiltshire, England, was subdivided 70 years later as Perth dealt with the population explosion following the Gold Rush. Maddington Farm became ‘Maddington’ – an area of varied agricultural uses including market gardens, poultry and orchards. In the 1950s and 1960s, Maddington and surrounding suburbs were further subdivided and developed into residential suburbs.[4]
During the 1960s the Canning Park race course, located in Maddington, was abandoned. William Davison, an English property developer bought up the land and developed the area into an industrial estate, which is the light industrial area which can be seen along Albany Highway and the train line today. In the 1980s the first stage of a new regional shopping centre was opened in Maddington with the third stage completed by 1992. Now called Centro Maddington, it is situated along the south-eastern border of the suburb. The suburb also was the site of one of 24 new Australian Technical Colleges proposed by the Howard Government in 2005.
[edit] Demographics
"Economically it contains more people with lower income, pockets of high unemployment, and many low margin businesses with an emphasis on automotive trades and light industry. Maddington and Kenwick therefore, find it difficult to compete for investment opportunities. Socially it contains many people experiencing high levels of social disadvantage, with low educational achievement. It has a broad ethnic mix, with social problems associated with social exclusion. Environmentally, the area retains a semi-rural quality even though it has been increasingly developed since the 1960’s."[5]
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Maddington shopping centre.
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Maddington (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC51846&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
- ^ "Maddington Town Centre Enquiry-by-Design Workshop Outcomes report" (PDF). City of Gosnells. July 2004. http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/upload/gosnells/E89B1BC819DA4118ABF9877063FF00D7.pdf. Retrieved 2007-11-27. Regional Analysis (page 5)
- ^ "Maddington Town Centre Enquiry-by-Design Workshop Outcomes report" (PDF). City of Gosnells. July 2004. http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/upload/gosnells/E89B1BC819DA4118ABF9877063FF00D7.pdf. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
- ^ "History of Suburb Names: Maddington". City of Gosnells. http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/scripts/viewarticle.asp?NID=10249. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
- ^ "Collaborative Action to Deliver Local Solutions in Maddington & Kenwick". City of Gosnells. http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/scripts/viewarticle.asp?NID=7177. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
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