About Springvale
Springvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia, 23 km south-east of Melbourne's
central business district. Its local government
area is the City of Greater Dandenong. At the
census in Australia for 2011, Springvale had a
population of 19,771.
Springvale is a large suburb occupying 11.2 kmĀ²,
bounded by Westall Road to the west, Princes
Highway and Police Road to the north, the
Springvale Crematorium and Corrigan Road to
the northeast, Heatherton Road to the south
and Lawn Road to the southeast. Springvale
is linked to Melbourne's CBD by Monash
Freeway via the Ferntree Gully Road exit to
the suburb's northwest.
On the north of the Princes Highway is the
Springvale Crematorium and Necropolis. Next
to the Crematorium is an area of housing and
the original Springvale primary school near
where Centre and Springvale Roads cross
Princes Highway.
Springvale is mostly residential, although some
small industrial areas are scattered through the
suburb's northwest and northeast.
Springvale was once a city in its own right, but a
local government boundary reshuffle in
December 1994, saw part of the municipality
amalgamated into the City of Greater
Dandenong and the rest merged into the new
City of Kingston.
Springvale remains home to the Sandown
Racecourse, and is also known throughout
Australian revhead circles as the home of the
Sandown International Motor Raceway which
hosts a number of major car races every year
including the Sandown 500, a key event in the
V8 Supercar series, and formerly the Sandown
Challenge.