Suburb Profile - Mill Park

Suburb Profile - Mill Park

There are two different theories of where the name Mill Park originated. Some believe it was given the name after a ‘Flour Mill’ located on the Plenty River in the 1840s, part of an enormous property covering the region owned by George and Francis Coulstock. Others believe it was named after Henry ‘Money’ Miller (1809-1888) who later  bought the large estate from the Coulstock’s and went on to breed racehorses, run a dairy and other grazing activities sufficient to occupy 65 persons housed in a village on the property. A number of streets in the suburb are named after prolific racehorses owned by Miller including ‘Redleap’ who won the National Hurdle in 1898 (namesake of Redleap Reserve and Redleap Avenue) and the iconic ‘The Stables’ on Childs road was one of his holdings.

Adding further argument to the suburb being named after him was that when residential development began in Mill Park in the 1970s the first home completed in 1976 was on Mill Park Drive, following Miller’s original circular training track. Access to the estate was from Plenty Road, but a bridge over the Darebin Creek in Childs Road linked Mill Park with Lalor and Thomastown to the west in 1988. Gazetted as a suburb in 1978, Mill Park is now the largest centre in the City of Whittlesea.

The suburb of Mill Park is split into 2 precinct areas: Mill Park and Blossom Park.
Mill Park covers an area of approximately 9 square kilometres. It is primarily a residential area, with some commercial land areas. Rapid residential development took place from the 1980s into the early 1990s.

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Advocacy priorities for Mill Park

Childs Road is the major east-west arterial road linking Mill Park and Epping. It is a duplicated 4-lane divided road from Plenty Road to Dalton Road, except for the section across the E6 reservation and the Darebin Creek. This part of the road becomes a 2-lane road. As a result of the current intersection design and narrow bridge, traffic flow is unpredictable during peak periods. Duplicating the 850 metre section of Childs Road and providing a new bridge across the Darebin Creek will provide a continuous 4-lane divided road between Plenty Road in Mill Park and Dalton Road in Epping and remove the current unsafe footpath and the traffic bottleneck.

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