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Liberty Grove, New South Wales

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Liberty Grove is a small suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Liberty Grove is located 16 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay.

Liberty Grove is squeezed in between Homebush Bay Drive to the west and the Northern Line railway to the east. It is surrounded by the suburbs of Rhodes to the north and Concord West to the east and south and shares the same postcode of 2138.

The Liberty Grove  development won the 1999 Urban Development Institute of Australia award for excellence.

Free settlers who arrived on the Bellona in January 1793 began farming the area and knew it as 'Liberty Plains'. The name has been adapted for the modern residential development of Liberty Grove.

Liberty Grove opened in 1998 to much fanfare. It was built on former industrial land to cater for the increasing number of people buying investment properties in Sydney in the lead up to the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Its opening day attracted much attention in Sydney.

Though lots within Liberty Grove are either Strata Title (high rise and low rise units) or Torrens Title (town houses, duplex and free-standing dwellings), all property within Liberty Grove is subject to a Community Scheme (registered as DP270371), with common property owned by the community association. Lot owners pay a community association fee which is used for maintenance of common property. The by-laws of the community association are binding on all lot owners in the same way as the by-laws of a strata scheme.

The Liberty Grove complex contains swimming pools, tennis courts, basketball court, gymnasium, village green and parks, function room, convenience store and entrances to Rhodes and Concord West. Rhodes Shopping Centre is only 100m from the northern entrance. Every home in the estate is connected to a common television antenna system by means of underground coaxial cable. The system was originally designed only to handle analog transmissions, but from March 2006 has been upgraded to also handle digital free to air channels.

Vehicle access to Liberty Grove is only available from Homebush Bay Drive. If travelling south, there is a turning lane and entrance to the centre of Liberty Grove. If travelling north, take the left hand turnoff that also leads to Rhodes Waterside, and then drive underneath Homebush Bay Drive to access the northern vehicle entrance. As well as the two vehicle entrances, there are two pedestrian entrances, one to the east, leading underneath the railway line to Queen Street, and one to the south, leading to Concord Avenue and King Street. The northern (vehicle) entrance is only a 10 minute walk to Rhodes station and the southern (pedestrian) entrance is only a 10 minute walk to Concord West station and Bicentennial Park.

 

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty Grove,_New_South_Wales