Badgerys Creek, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Badgerys Creek
city = Sydney
state = nsw
postcode= 2555


caption =
pop = 721 (2006)
lga = City of Liverpool
stategov = Mulgoa
fedgov = Macarthur
near-nw = Orchard Hills
near-n = Orchard Hills
near-ne = Kemps Creek
near-w = Luddenham
near-e = Kemps Creek
near-sw = Greendale
near-s = Bringelly
near-se = Rossmore
dist1 = 51
dir1 = west
location1= Sydney CBD

Badgerys Creek is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Badgerys Creek is located 51 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of Liverpool. It is part of the Greater Western Sydney region and is adjacent to the suburbs of Kemps Creek and Austral.

Commercial Area

North of Elizabeth Drive, a substantial amount of land is taken up by the CSIRO Research Station, University of Sydney MacGarvie Smith Veterinary Farm, and a landfill depot. Much of the research establishment is dotted with reservoirs. The southeast includes a brickworks, and land owned by Telstra, also featuring a number of reservoirs. The suburb is also home to the Hubertus Liverpool Rifle Club. ["UBD CityLink Street Directory" Sydney Maps 224, 225, 244 & 245, 19th Edition, Universal Publishers, 2007, Published in Australia ISBN 0-7319-1966-1]

History

James Badgery was a British-born farmer and miller who was granted convert|840|acre|km2 in 1806 in the suburb that bears his name today. His original land grant was on the north side of Elizabeth Drive, land which today is used for farming research by the CSIRO and University of Sydney. He named his property "Exeter Farm" but the creek running through his property became known as Badgery's Creek and this was the name that stuck to the local area. [cite web | url= http://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/adetailedhistoryofliverpool.htm#suburbs | title=History of our suburbs: Badgerys Creek | publisher=Liverpool City Council | accessdate=2008-04-12 ]

Badgery bought other land to the south of his grant and after he died, the area was subdivided in the 1880s, vastly increasing the local population. A school was established in 1895 and the area gradually developed as a rural suburb which by 1981 had a population of 1560. In 1986, the Federal Government announced it was building the Second Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek. It bought out properties and most of the population moved away so that by 1996 there were less than 500 residents. Construction never started on the airport but the land is still held by the Government leaving the suburb's future uncertain. [cite web | url= http://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/adetailedhistoryofliverpool.htm#suburbs | title=History of our suburbs: Badgerys Creek | publisher=Liverpool City Council | accessdate=2008-04-12 ]

People

According to the 2006 census taken by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Badgerys Creek had a population of 721, an improvement on the 1996 figure but still less than half the number in 1981. Well over half the houses were being rented (57%), largely because of the federal government's purchase of land in the area. Badgerys Creek was still strongly rural with the three most common industries of employment being freight transport (10.1%), vegetable farming (9.4%) and meat (5.2%).Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC16117 | name = Badgerys Creek (State Suburb) | quick = on | accessdate = 2008-04-15]

Geography

Badgerys Creek flows north into a reservoir in the suburb's north, as does South Creek, the suburb's eastern boundary. West of the reservoir, is Mills Hill, and southwest of this by just over a kilometre is Raymond Hill, 125 metres above sea level. The western boundary is Oaky Creek, which becomes Cosgrove Creek after accepting this tributary five hundred metres north of Elizabeth Drive, and to the southwest the hill known as Anchau (118 metres above sea level). ["UBD CityLink Street Directory" Sydney Maps 224, 225, 244 & 245, 19th Edition, Universal Publishers, 2007, Published in Australia ISBN 0-7319-1966-1]

chools

The suburb has one school, Badgerys Creek Primary.

Parks

It is home to Badgerys Creek Park, which has toilet facilities.

Local Issues

For several years, Badgerys Creek has been the proposed site for a Second Sydney Airport, but no action has taken place. [cite web | url= http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/BP/1997-98/98bp20.htm | title= Second Sydney Airport-A Chronology | publisher=Parliament of Australia | accessdate=2008-06-08 ] Several small towns are nearby and suburban development in south-western Sydney has reached within 10 km of the proposed site, and residents of these areas have lobbied on an aircraft noise platform. Sydney Airport, a subject of complaints about aircraft noise, has temporarily alleviated the problem by introducing curfew times.

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