City of Chelsea

City of Chelsea
City of Chelsea; Victoria
	Location in Melbourne
Population	27,500 (1992)[1]
• Density	2,249/km2 (5,824/sq mi)
Established	1920
Area	12.23 km2 (4.7 sq mi)
Council seat	Chelsea
Region	Melbourne
County	Mornington
	LGAs around City of Chelsea:

The City of Chelsea was a local government area about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, on the eastern side of Port Phillip. The city covered an area of 12.23 square kilometres (4.72 sq mi), and existed from 1920 until 1994.

History

Chelsea was originally part of the Shire of Dandenong, and was severed and incorporated as the Borough of Carrum in May 1920. It was proclaimed the City of Chelsea on 8 May 1929.[2]

On 15 December 1994, the City of Chelsea was abolished and merged into the newly created City of Kingston, along with the City of Mordialloc and parts of the City of Moorabbin.[3]

Council meetings were held at Chelsea Town Hall at 316 Station Street, Chelsea. It presently serves as a council service centre and library for the City of Kingston.

Wards

The City of Chelsea was subdivided into three wards, each electing three councillors:[2]

North Ward
Centre Ward
South Ward

Suburbs

Population

Year	Population
1954	16,857
1958	20,600*
1961	22,355
1966	24,757
1971	26,372
1976	26,357
1981	26,034
1986	25,803
1991	25,822

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

gollark: Advertising is optimized to make you buy/do a thing. It just isn't *that* effective, compared to cognitohazards in fiction.

gollark: They kind of already have, but pretty mild ones.

gollark: There was a buffer or something it needed which didn't seem to exist because of me hackily patching stuff together, so I just assumed 512 bytes was enough.

gollark: There are probably horrible issues in the code I hackily tweaked, but I can't see them and it doesn't cause immediate crashing, so I ignored it.

gollark: It leaks 28 bytes of memory once, because I thought it wasn't worth adding extra code to deallocate it on exit.

References

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office (1994). Victorian Year Book. p. 48. ISSN 0067-1223.
Victorian Municipal Directory. Brunswick: Arnall & Jackson. 1992. pp. 336–338. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (1 August 1995). Victorian local government amalgamations 1994-1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. p. 8. ISBN 0-642-23117-6. Retrieved 16 December 2007.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office (1994). Victorian Year Book. p. 48. ISSN 0067-1223.

[vmd-2] Victorian Municipal Directory. Brunswick: Arnall & Jackson. 1992. pp. 336–338. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.

[3] Australian Bureau of Statistics (1 August 1995). Victorian local government amalgamations 1994-1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. p. 8. ISBN 0-642-23117-6. Retrieved 16 December 2007.