Melton

Melton is an urban region inside metropolitan Melbourne, Australia located 35 km west from the capital's valuable commercial enterprise district. It is the executive centre of the City of Melton local government region and its maximum populous centre. At June 2016 Melton had an estimated urban population of 62,117. It is taken into consideration a part of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan region and is protected inside the capital's population statistical department. Melton began as a small city before being d a satellite town in 1974, separated from Melbourne's city vicinity via a inexperienced wedge. Since the 1990 it has skilled fast suburban boom into surrounding greenfield land and has become a commuter metropolis in the Melbourne- Ballarat boom corridor.

Changes to Melbourne's urban growth boundary handed by means of the state authorities in 2010 efficaciously relinquish its satellite city status as it's miles planned to end up a part of Melbourne's destiny conurbation. Melton changed into first settled with the aid of squatters setting up sheep runs inside the place within the 1830s and a small settlement benefited from visitors passing via it on the way to the Ballarat gold fields at some point of the Victorian Gold Rush. The post workplace opened on 1 March 1856. The region become d a satellite town in 1974 and a green belt existed between it and the urban vicinity of Melbourne till the past due 1990.