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Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash. It is a large suburb that stretches from Highbury Road in the North to Ferntree Gully Road in the South. At the centre of the suburb is Mount Waverley Village shopping centre. Mount Waverley has its own train station on the Glen Waverley line and several schools including Mount Waverley Secondary College, Avila College, Mount Waverley Primary School, Syndal South Primary School, Sussex Heights Primary School, Essex Heights Primary School, Mount Waverley North Primary School, Holy Family Primary School and Huntingtower School.
Mount Waverley is famous for its heritage streets. The suburb was originally a new estate in the 1930s. Due to the onset of the Great Depression, the estate did not get off the ground. The streets had been laid down, but no houses were built. These streets were built of concrete, not asphalt. The surface is still the same as it was in the 1930s, with only minor maintenance over the decades. Residential development did not resurge until the 1950s. In early 2008, a new smoother asphalt surface was finally laid along the strip of Stephensons Road between Waverley Road and Mount Waverley Village shopping centre. Stephensons Road is the main road of Mount Waverley that goes straight through the middle of the suburb from south (where it becomes Clayton Road) to north (where it becomes Middleborough Road). There are such football teams as the Waverley Blues in the area.
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