Patterson Lakes, Victoria
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| Patterson Lakes Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 6606 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3197 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 4.2 km² | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $409,000 [1] | ||||||||||||
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| LGA: | City of Kingston | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Carrum | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Isaacs | ||||||||||||
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Patterson Lakes is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Kingston. It is approximately 35 km south-east of the Melbourne central business district. It is comprised predominantly of new, upper middle-class homes.
The suburb was created from a wetland area mainly during the 1980s when the mostly man-made Patterson River was dredged to drain the former Carrum Swamp. The southern side of the river is characterised by a system of lakes and canals providing properties with a water frontage and the possibility of a boat mooring. The Patterson River Country Club (golf) is on the northern side where the housing is more recently developed and there are no ‘lakes’. The Patterson River is the most popular portal for Port Phillip Bay with four public launching ramps, marinas, boat storage and moorings for leisure craft.
It is serviced by a small shopping centre, including a Safeway supermarket and a new shopping centre called The Glade.
Access to the area by car is generally from either the Nepean Highway or the Mornington Peninsula Freeway. It is also serviced by the Carrum railway station on the Frankston line.
The filming at Kath's house (in the fictional suburb of Fountain Lakes) in the hit Australian series Kath & Kim is shot in Patterson Lakes, in Lagoon Place.
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| Suburbs of the City of Kingston | |
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Aspendale | Aspendale Gardens | Braeside | Bonbeach | Carrum | Chelsea | Chelsea Heights | Cheltenham | Clarinda | Clayton South | Dingley Village | Edithvale | Heatherton | Mentone | Moorabbin | Moorabbin Airport | Mordialloc | Parkdale | Patterson Lakes | |
