Malvern East, Victoria
Malvern East is a
suburb of
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia. It is in the
Local Government Area of the
City of Stonnington. Its
postcode is 3145.
Malvern East is bounded to the north by Wattletree Road and Gardiners Creek, to the east by Warrigal Road, to the south by the Princes Highway (Dandenong Road) and to the west by Tooronga Road.
The suburb is also home to the
Chadstone Shopping Centre, the second largest shopping centre in the
Southern Hemisphere.
Once a relatively small suburb based on its easterly proximity to Malvern, it is now one of Melbourne's largest. The expansion and redefintion of East Malvern was driven in the 90's by resident groups eager to rename their address to something more upwardly mobile than Chadstone. A willing Stonnington (then Malvern) council saw the opportunity for increased rate revenue as house prices went up and the suburb today covers an area over twice as large as its previous version. Of course, the expansion of East Malvern is a kind of running joke in Melbourne, and its cache as 'a part' of Malvern is now lost - the two suburbs are nothing like each other.
Malvern East is serviced by
Darling,
East Malvern and
Holmesglen railway stations, all on the
Glen Waverley line; the numbers 3 and 5
tram routes; and the numbers 612, 623, 624, and 627
bus routes.
