Isabella Plains, Australian Capital Territory

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Isabella Plains
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Population:

4,385 (2001 census)

Established:

1985

Postcode:

2905

Property Value:

AUD $300,000 (2005)[1]

LGA:

Tuggeranong

Assembly Electorate:

Brindabella

Federal Division:

Canberra

Suburbs around Isabella Plains:
Greenway	Monash	Gowrie
Bonython	Isabella Plains	Richardson
Gordon	Calwell	Calwell

Isabella Plains is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Tuggeranong. The postcode is 2905. The suburb is named after Isabella Maria Brisbane (1821-1849), who was the daughter of Thomas Brisbane the colonial Governor of New South Wales when the area was first explored by white settlers in the 1820s. It was gazetted on 5 August 1975. Streets are named after New South Wales parish names.

It is next to the suburbs of Monash, Bonython, Richardson and Calwell. It is bounded by Isabella Drive, Drakeford Drive, Johnson Drive and Ashley Drive. Located in the suburb are a small group of shops, MacKillop Catholic College, Isabella Plains Primary School, the Tuggeranong automatic weather station^[1] and Isabella Plains neighbourhood oval.

1 Facilities
2 Geology
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Facilities

[edit] Shops

A small shopping centre is located on the corner of Ellerston Avenue and Galloway Street. This includes a small supermarket, a hairdresser, a Chinese restaurant, a pathology clinic, a chemist and a takeaway shop. There is also a Isabella Plains Neighbourhood house, and a small doctors surgery opposite and to the right of the shops.

Isabella Plains shops

[edit] Schools

(a) Government schools

Isabella Plains Primary School

Isabella Plains Primary School
Isabella Plains Pre-school

(b) Non-government schools

MacKillop Catholic College

[edit] Community facilities

An early childhood centre exists next to Isabella Plains Primary School on Ellerston Avenue, offering day care and children's health services. After school care is also available through Isabella Plains Primary School.

A Neighbourhood Centre shares a car park with the shops. This centre is available for general hire by the community and hosts, among other things, several daytime playgroups for mothers with young children in connection with the ACT Playgroups Association.

This is the Isabella Plains Neighbourhood Centre, located next to the shops

[edit] Churches

Brindabella Baptist Church, meeting at MacKillop Catholic College.^[2]
Tuggeranong Presbyterian Church, meeting at Isabella Plains Public School.^[3]
Isabella Plains is in the Catholic parish of Corpus Christi which has its church in Gowrie.^[4]

[edit] Geology

Deakin Volcanics green grey and purple rhyodacite underlies the suburb. These rocks are from the Silurian period. But it is overlaid by alluvium in the low lying parts.^[5]

See also: Geology of the Australian Capital Territory