Kealba Views, Victoria

Kealba Views is a neighborhood bounded by Main Road East, Cowper Avenue, Errington Road and Sunshine Avenue in the Electoral district of St Albans of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Brimbank.
The name of the suburb is derived from the letters of two of its neighbouring suburbs, namely Keilor and St Albans.

History

The land was part of the Overnewton Estate owned by William Taylor, who had Overnewton Castle built on the Calder Highway. After the Government demanded the release of land by large land owners two large farm allotments were sold to Farquhar Macrae and his bride Annie (née Ritchie). After Farquhar and Annie's death the land contained in the suburb of Kealba was owned by their son Malcolm Ritchie Macrae. The farm was used to grow oats and for the breeding of horses, cows and sheep.

During the 1960s the land was sold for subdivisional purposes, the first land auction taking place on 22 March 1969. During this time the area came under the St. Albans postal district. Over the following years all the land was subdivided, a secondary college named Kealba established as well as a few light industrial areas. Under the Survey Co-Ordination Act 1958 the City of Keilor applied to a name changed from St Albans East to the name of Kealba. The location was named as being - that portion of the City bounded by St Albans Road, Taylors Creek, the Maribyrnong River, Main Road East, Cowper Avenue, Errington Road and Sunshine Avenue.
In 1990s without any consultations with the residents, the Council renamed part of Kealba bounded by Main Road East, Cowper Avenue, Errington Road and Sunshine Avenue as St Albans which is still known to many as Kealba, or by its original name Kealba Views. Many businesses in the neighborhood either new or established before the name change still use Kealba in their business names and/or as their locations.

Transport

To Watergardens, Bus route 419 departs from the terminus at St Albans Railway Station (Alfrieda Street interchange) and runs via Alfrieda St, Main Road East, Sunshine Av, Odessa Av, Sunshine Av, Apollo Rd, Chichester Dr, Parmelia Dr, Bond Dr, Kings Rd and Watergardens Circuit Rd to the terminus at Watergardens Railway Station.
To St. Albans, Bus route 419 departs from the terminus at Watergardens Station and runs via Watergardens Circuit Rd, access road, Kings Rd, Bond Dr, Parmelia Dr, Chichester Dr, Apollo Rd, Sunshine Av, Odessa Av, Sunshine Av and Main Road East to the terminus at Alfrieda Street interchange, St Albans Railway Station.

See also

• City of Keilor - the former local government area of which Kealba Views was a part