Another suburb added to Melbourne's fringe, will be home for 22,000

By Allison Worrall
Updated August 16 2017 - 1:33am, first published 1:26am
15/8/17 Planning minister Richard Wynne announces the opening  of a new suburb - Mount Atkinson -  on a 1500 hectare site - more than 8,000 dwellings and will be home to 22,000 people over the next 15 years. Photograph by Chris Hopkins
15/8/17 Planning minister Richard Wynne announces the opening of a new suburb - Mount Atkinson - on a 1500 hectare site - more than 8,000 dwellings and will be home to 22,000 people over the next 15 years. Photograph by Chris Hopkins

Construction of a new suburb in Melbourne's west will begin before the end of the year, with plans to build 8000 homes, four new schools and a new railway station.

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