Braybrook is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maribyrnong. Approximately mid-way between the former councils of Footscray and Sunshine, located in the heart of the western suburbs (before the more recent urban sprawl), due west from the Melbourne CBD along Ballarat Road, unsurprisingly it has been an industrial suburb for most of its existence, although now, Braybrook is starting to resemble a bedroom community, due to a recent expansion of the western suburbs of Melbourne, which are far less populated than the east. Historically this is due to stigma, but the western suburbs are expanding now due to location and rising fuel prices. Some gentrification has occurred in the past decade, with many former factory sites developed for modern housing projects (townhouses and the like), but traces of its industrial past are still evident. Its postcode is 3019. This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... “VIC” redirects here. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Hughes_Street. ... Australian postcodes have four digits; envelopes for posting from Australia reflect this. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 2. ... ‹ The template below (Unit of length) is being considered for deletion. ... This article is about the area with the postcodes 3000 and 3004 in Victoria, Australia known as Melbourne. ... Municipalities of Greater Melbourne City of Banyule City of Bayside City of Boroondara City of Brimbank Shire of Cardinia City of Casey City of Darebin City of Frankston City of Glen Eira City of Greater Dandenong City of Hobsons Bay City of Hume City of Kingston City of Knox City... The City of Maribyrnong is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... Gellibrand is an Australian federal electoral division located in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. ... This is a list of Municipalities and their suburbs and townships in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, Australia. ... Sunshine North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Avondale Heights is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Maribyrnong is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Sunshine (37°46′ S 144°49′ E) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Maidstone is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... For other uses, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Tottenham is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... West Footscray (also known as Footscray West) is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... “VIC” redirects here. ... Municipalities of Greater Melbourne City of Banyule City of Bayside City of Boroondara City of Brimbank Shire of Cardinia City of Casey City of Darebin City of Frankston City of Glen Eira City of Greater Dandenong City of Hobsons Bay City of Hume City of Kingston City of Knox City... The City of Maribyrnong is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... Footscray is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, named after the English village of Foots Cray. ... Sunshine (37°46′ S 144°49′ E) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Urban sprawl (also: suburban sprawl) is the spreading out of a city and its suburbs over rural land at the fringe of an urban area. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... Commuters waiting for the morning train in Maplewood, New Jersey A bedroom community, dormitory town, or commuter town is a community that is primarily residential in character, with most of its workers commuting to a nearby town or city to earn their livelihood. ... Look up stigma on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

People

As the main campus of WELS (Western English Language Centre), is located on South Road in Braybrook, many refugees and immigrants mainly from African and Vietnam have settled in and around Braybrook. About a third of the residents were born overseas. Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ... World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second_largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ...

Education

Braybrook is home to a number of schools. These are:

• Dinjerra Primary School, located on South Road.
• Braybrook Primary School, located on Ballarat Road. Slated for closure and amalgamation with 2 other area schools (Sunshine East Primary, Sunvale Primary) at the end of 2007. The buildings will be demolished and the nearby Rosamond School will be relocated onto the site, along with new buildings and facilities.
• Braybrook College, a public secondary school, located on Ballarat Road.
• Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, located on Churchill Avenue.

Braybrook is also the home to the main campus of WELS (Western English Language School), located on South Road. Special education is instruction that is modified or particularized for those students with special needs, such as learning differences, mental health problems, specific disabilities (physical or developmental) [1] , and giftedness [2]. // Children with special needs have always been part of society. ...

Transportation

Six bus routes that go through Braybrook. These are the 215, 216, 219, 220, 408 and the 410 which are operated by Melbourne Bus Link and Westrans. The area is served by rail by nearby Tottenham and Sunshine Train Stations, though neither station is actually located in Braybrook. Melbourne Bus Link is a Melbourne bus company. ... Westrans is the brand under which the Kefford Corporation markets its bus services to the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

Community Infrastructure

Community Centre

The Braybrook Community Centre is located 107-139 Churchill Avenue, Braybrook. The centre offers childrens facilities, crafts, English as a Second Language (ESL), occasional care, computer and Internet facilities, playgroups, health and well-being classes and financial counselling. It also offers rooms and halls for hire. There is also a large community garden, featuring sculptures and strawbale/mudbrick buildings. Community gardens are small plots of land allocated to groups of people by some organization that holds title or lease to the land, sometimes for rent, sometimes simply as a grant of land. ...

The Western Region Community Health Centre is housed within the centre and offers physiotherapy, podiatry, social work, occupational therapists, general practitioners, speech pathology for children, pharmaceutical program and a women's and children's health nurse. Hours of operation are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.

The Braybrook Tool Lending Library is a not-for-profit community service managed by volunteers, also located within the centre. Woodwork facilities can be hired for classes & activities. The tool library operates Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9am-12noon.

Other Community Facilities

The Community Hub at 19 Hargreaves Crescent, Braybrook is a base for the Neighbourhood Renewal team and the Braybrook and Maidstone Neighbourhood Association to collaborate with local residents to bring about change. Local residents are welcome to visit and learn more about Neighbourhood Renewal and the Association. The Hub will be home to the Braidstone Bulletin — a local community newsletter, and will have small meeting rooms available for local groups.

Commerce

There is a local shopping centre called Central West Plaza located on the corners of Ashley Street and South Road, on the border to West Footscray. It was built on the grounds of a former RAAF base, consequently, the shopping centre has a general aviation theme, complete with a WW2 fighter on display on the Ashley Street entrance, where it was moved from the office complex development adjacent in 2003. There is another major shopping centre on the corner of Ashley st and Ballarat Road, "Braybrook Plaza." Most retail businesses in the area, however, are still located in strip malls, which are common, but almost always run down, and small, and individual shops on Ballarat rd. The strip malls can be found on Monash st, South rd, Churchill rd, Ballarat rd, and in most neighboring suburbs. The Braybrook section of Ballarat rd is also littered with a large number of fast food restaurants. West Footscray (also known as Footscray West) is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The RAAF Roundel is based on that of the British Royal Air Force, with the central circle replaced by a Kangaroo, a symbol of Australia. ... The Mall, an out-of-town shopping centre at Patchway, near Bristol, England. ...

External links

• Braybrook Suburb Profile
• Braybrook Photo Gallery

References

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Coordinates: 37°47′10″S 144°51′22″E / -37.786, 144.856 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

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  • Topographic and bathymetric map from Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia.