About Cranbourne West
Cranbourne West is a suburb in Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia, 40 km south-east of
Melbourne's central business district. The local
government area for Cranbourne West is the
City of Casey. At the 2011 Census, Cranbourne
West had a population of 8,743.
Cranbourne West has developed since the
1990s, and in 2006 had a new shopping centre
opened called 'The Sandhurst Centre', on the
corner of Duff Street and Monahans Road.
The Year 7-12 private Catholic School, St Peters
College, is situated on Sladen Street in the far
south of the suburb of Cranbourne West.
The Cranbourne West Development Plan was
released in 2008 by the City of Casey and
includes a large parcel of land bounded by
Thompson Road to the North, Evans Road to the
East, Western Port Highway to the West, and the
proposed Ballarto Road and the Urban Growth
Boundary to the south. When developed, the
new development will have a large industrial
area, housing, a network of parks and
pathways, a primary school, and a secondary
college. Low-density housing will be provided
for at the far south of the parcel just north of
the Urban Growth Boundary.