Bentleigh is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km south-east of Melbourne’s Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local supervision area. Bentleigh recorded a population of 17,921 at the 2021 census.
Within Bentleigh is the locale of Patterson, formally a allocation of Bentleigh but felt by many locals to be a certain area.
Bentleigh was named after Victorian politician, Thomas Bent.
The first Post Office in the Place opened on 1 July 1865 as Jasper Road. After the railway arrived it moved to near the station in 1882 and was named Brighton East.
In 1908 it was renamed Bentleigh in line with the railway station name.
A Patterson Post Office opened in 1948. In 1961 it was renamed Patterson West once a further Patterson office opened close the railway station.
Bentleigh is house to Alnutt Park, Victory Park, Halley Park, and Bentleigh Memorial Gardens. The strip shopping centre along Centre Road is the biggest in the area, of beyond 250 retail businesses, and convenient car parking. The shopping centre has a focus on fresh food, continental delis and cake shops, restaurants and cafes. It has bank branches, fashion and shoe shops, doctors surgeries, dentists and extra medical services, an independent bookshop, a newsagent, a toy shop and three supermarkets. It has new services bearing in mind hairdressers, picture framers, op shops for second-hand retail, and an interior decorator. There is a weekly market neighboring the train station.
There is moreover Patterson road shopping middle that has a café, two coffee shops, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, a newsagent, a supermarket, a bakery, an organic green grocer, a fishmonger, a travel agent, a pizza shop, a nail technician, a violin maker, a remedial massage centre and three hairdressers.
Its schools are Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Bentleigh West Primary School, and St. Paul’s Primary School.
In 2021 the Bentleigh Library closed to be redeveloped.
Recreational services were developed at Halley Park roughly speaking 1994.
In the 2016 Census, there were 16,153 people in Bentleigh. 61.6% of people were born in Australia. The neighboring most common countries of birth were China 5.6%, England 3.4%, India 2.8%, New Zealand 1.9% and Greece 1.5%. 67.2% of people on your own spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 6.4%, Greek 4.2%, Russian 2.8%, Italian 2.1% and Cantonese 1.1%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 34.4% and Catholic 23.2%.
Bentleigh has two railway stations, Bentleigh and Patterson; the former is the end of Zone 1 on the Frankston line.
The level crossing at Bentleigh railway station was upgraded in 2006 at a cost of A$1.2 million and included sirens as with ease as bells, red man lights, ‘Another Train is Coming’ lights and latches on the emergency exit. This was after several fatal accidents at the crossing involving pedestrians.
In 2016, the level crossing was upgraded once once more as portion of the ‘Level Crossing Removal Project’ initiative. Boom gates no longer occupy the road crossing, as the tracks have been modified to pass underneath. The station has been upgraded to a more futuristic look.
Bentleigh is with serviced by two bus services. The 703 is a SmartBus further which runs from Middle Brighton to Blackburn through Bentleigh’s main shopping strip Centre Road. The 701 assistance starts from Bentleigh railway station and terminates at Oakleigh railway station. As portion of the State Government’s $10.5 billion transport plan the 701 serve has been upgraded and the vigorous hours expanded to run seven-days-a-week for the first time.
Bentleigh is house to several murals and public art installations. The most notable is a 150 square metre wall of mosaics uncovered Patterson Station called Stationary Faces, installed by player Pamela Irving in 2012. Since 2018, the Glen Eira City Council has been commissioning murals close the Centre Road shops.
St. Paul’s Primary School is a Catholic coeducational primary literary located in Bentleigh on Jasper Road it is neighboring a Church later than the similar name.
Established in 1928, it was managed by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart until 1993. Catherine Tammesild is the current principal.
Our Lady of Sacred Heart College (OLSH) is a Catholic girls forlorn secondary scholastic located on the corner of Jasper Road and Patterson Road. It was founded in 1938 by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Bentleigh West is a divulge coeducational Primary speculative located upon Brewer Road.