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The City of Prahran was a local government area about 5 kilometres (3 mi) southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 9.55 square kilometres (3.69 sq mi), and existed from 1855 until 1994, when it was merged with the City of Malvern to create the City of Stonnington .
This is a list of mayors and chairmen of the City of Prahran, a former local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and its precedents. It existed from 1854 until 1994 when it merged with the City of Malvern to form the new City of Stonnington .
Prahran Town Hall [1] is a civic building located on the corner of Chapel Street and Greville Street in Prahran, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. After the amalgamation of the City of Prahran with the City of Malvern in 1994 to form the City of Stonnington , the Town Hall is now vacant.
Prahran (/ p r ə ˈ r æ n / prə-RAN, also colloquially / p ə ˈ r æ n / pə-RAN or / p r æ n / PRAN), is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area. Prahran recorded a population of 12,203 at the 2021 census. [1]
Prahran is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It was created by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888, [ 1 ] taking effect at the 1889 elections. The electorate is the state’s smallest by area, covering a little under 11 km 2 in the inner south-east of Melbourne .
The distinction between the two areas remains today in the suburbs of Toorak and South Yarra. Further auctions of land in the Prahran area took place in 1849 and 1850. The early 1850s saw the return of many miners from the gold diggings to Prahran, resulting in increased development and the gazetting as a municipality in 1855. The population of ...
Known at first as Prahran South, the suburb's name was changed to Windsor in 1891, after Windsor, Berkshire. [2] It is often incorrectly referred to as Prahran, Windsor's northern neighbour. In the past, Windsor was within the City of Prahran's boundaries and many institutions still refer to this.
[7] [8] The lower storeys were converted into a shopping centre named Prahran Central in 1978, including an aerobics studio/health club called Kicks on the first floor, then Pran Central after redevelopment in 1999. [1] [3] Lang Walker acquired the property from Maurie Alter in 1999 for $22 million, and carried out a $60 million upgrade. The ...