The Milgate Park Estate is a housing estate in

Doncaster East Doncaster East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Manningham local government area. Doncaster East recorded a population of 30,926 at the 2021 ...

, a suburb of

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, Australia. The estate comprises 40 hectares of land situated around a section of Long Valley, a gully bed that no longer carries surface water, which flows northeast and into the

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. The land was used for

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s from the 1860s to the 1970s when it was subdivided for residential housing. Land in the estate itself was released to the public in two stages, the southern area first, followed by the northern area. The estate is listed on the Register of the National Estate for historical importance, it is a rare example of the implementation of the planning principles of the

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traffic separation idea (known as the planning scheme for "towns of the motor age") which served as a precedent for the

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. It included communal ownership of community facilities and extensive community parkland. Facilities include; a playground, two tennis courts, a netball court, football ground and playing facilities. The facilities are owned by the residents through a Home Owners Association. There is no through traffic and only Landscape Drive is not a

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Parklands

Milgate Park extends through much of the estate, Landscape Drive Reserve (formally a lake) adjoins the estate at the northern section of Landscape Drive.

Roadways

Many of the roadways within the estate were named after artists of the Heidelberg Arts School:''Melway'', Edition 35, 2008 *Landscape Drive :Reddington Terrace :Lambert Place :Dowling Grove :Watling Terrace :Buvelot Wynd :Meldrum Close :Heysen Grove :McCubbin Terrace :Streeton Lane :Dobell Place *Andersons Creek Road :Ramsay Close :Longstaff Court :Roper Place :Wiarando Court

References

Melway Melway, colloquially referred to as Melways or The Melways, is a street directory for Melbourne, Australian Heritage Database: Milgate Park Estate Conservation Area
*Australian Conservation website *Doncaster East local parks {{coord, 37, 46, 30, S, 145, 10, 15, E, region:AU-VIC_type:landmark, display=title Geography of Melbourne Radburn design housing estates City of Manningham