House Cleaning Services in Jacana

The name Jacana was applied to an area between Broadmeadows and Glenroy in the 1950s by the Housing Commission of Victoria (HCV). Named after Jacana Street, east of Craigieburn railway line (though technically, it is not in Jacana). The suburb and the street are located slightly north of Jacana railway station. It was built in 1959 to serve the suburb. However, Jacana as a built landscape did not spring fully formed under the aegis of the HCV.

The streets in the southern section of Jacana were laid out in 1923 when 861 lots were offered for sale on land which had formerly been owned by Duncan Kennedy, a farmer in the area from the mid-1840s. The Housing Commission retitled some of the streets (for instance, the jokingly named Emu Parade and Sunset Boulevard) and built most of the housing stock in this section of Jacana in the 1950s. Only a few houses in Jacana–notably those in Pascoe Vale Road–predate the Housing Commission’s arrival in Broadmeadows. The Annual Report 1958-9 included a photograph of Emu Parade’s ‘daily need’ shopping centre. This was probably because it represented the progressive nature of HCV operations. As the population increased, Jacana Post Office opened on 15 May 1961. In the early 1970s, Jacana’s northern section was laid out by the Commission. This section is the southernmost part of the Meadow Fair estate. In the middle of the 1960s, a small section of the southern Jacana was threatened by a proposed branch line that would run from the Broadmeadows railway near Jacana Station to the new Melbourne Airport. This line was never built.

Construction of the newer area of Jacana took place in the Whitlam era, which ended with the opening of the Broadmeadows Sporting Club, located on the Jacana side of the Moonee Ponds Creek Valley. The club was officially opened by Prime Minister Gough Whillam on the 10th of November 1975, just days before John Kerr, the Governor General, dismissed him. In the 1970s, a large portion of Jacana Reserve was used as a garbage dump to fill a valley that contained a small tributary to Moonee Ponds Creek. Two sports ovals can be found in this area.

Jacana, a former Housing Commission area in the region, is a lower-middle, or working class area that enjoys better amenities due to its planned heritage than many privately developed or unplanned suburbs. It contains the aforementioned shops and Sports Club (which includes a bowling green), small playgrounds, a school and extensive parkland. The north-eastern section of the suburb is the site of Broadmeadows Community Health Centre, relocated from a site north of the Broadmeadows Shopping Centre to a space long reserved for a hospital.