Vermont South, Victoria
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| Vermont South Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 11655 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3133 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 6.3 km² | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $424,500 [1] | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 24 km from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Whitehorse | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Forest Hill | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Aston, Bruce | ||||||||||||
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Vermont South is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Whitehorse.
Within Vermont South is Pin Oak Court, which is the filming location for "Ramsay Street" in the famous Australian soap opera Neighbours.
Vermont South has a shopping complex which contains a Coles, Dan Murphy's and adjoining McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Subway and Blockbuster Video. Just down Burwood hwy is the largest Bunnings warehouse in the eastern suburbs. It is situated where the Morack Golf Driving Range was. Fact: If you where to walk through ever isle in the store you would have walked 3km.
At the end of 2005, the largest Bunnings Warehouse in the Southern Hemisphere was built in Vermont South. The Australian Lifestyle television program, Better Homes and Gardens filmed a special at this location.
Vermont South is also the home of the Nunawading motorcross track just off Burwood Highway, behind the motorcross track is a series of bush walk trails connecting a spectacular lookout and Dandenong Creek.
A local landmark is the Burvale Hotel (named after its location at the intersection of Springvale Road and Burwood Highway), with a pub, bottle shop and motel. During the Man Vs Machine boxing bout between Anthony Mundine and Danny Green, The Burvale housed 500 illegal patrons from various prisons around Melbourne, resulting in a tumultuous evening with patrons throwing chairs, smashing windows and punching each other.
The Victorian Government extended the number 75 tram route from its former terminus at Burwood East to the Vermont South Shopping Centre in 2005. In addition to the tram, a Transit Bus Link has been added, which travels down Burwood Highway to Knox City Shopping Centre.
This transit bus, named the "Knox Transit Link" runs up to 21 hours per day, in conjunction with the route 75 tram timetable, making a "seamless connection to and from the tram, running from 4:30am-1:20am the next morning on Weekdays, running at every 10 minutes in the daytime off-peak period, and from every 5-7 minutes in the morning and afternoon peak periods, while after 7:30pm on weeknights, service intervals are set at every 20 minutes. On Saturdays, the Knox Transit Link bus service also runs from approximately 4:30am-1:20am the next morning, at 12 minute intervals in the daytime, and every 15-20 minutes beyond the 12 minute interval periods, while on Sundays, a 12 minute daytime frequency is offered, the route 732 only operates from Vermont South to Knox City on Sundays, with no service to/from Box Hill and Upper Ferntree Gully, with services after 7pm running every 30 minutes, with the last service to run to/from Vermont South at approximately 12:45am, these improvements making the route 732 (Vermont South - Knox City) arguably the most frequent bus service in Metropolitan Melbourne in that section only. However, the remaining sections of the 732 which have not been upgraded (Box Hill-Vermont South and Knox City-Upper Ferntree Gully) are still sufficient enough (every 20 minutes from 6am-8pm) to provide a service to the suburb.
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| Suburbs of the City of Whitehorse | |
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Blackburn | Blackburn North | Blackburn South | Box Hill | Box Hill North | Box Hill South | Burwood | Burwood East | Forest Hill | Mitcham | Mont Albert | Mont Albert North | Nunawading | Surrey Hills | Vermont | Vermont South |
