Healesville Freeway

The Healesville Freeway was a proposed[1] freeway in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. It was initially proposed in 1969, to run between Riversdale Road in Box Hill South, intersecting Springvale Road and then to Maroondah Highway in Coldstream.

Healesville Freeway

Victoria
General information
TypeFreeway
Length18 km (11 mi)
Major junctions
West end Springvale Road (State Route 40), Forest Hill, Melbourne
 
  • Boronia Road (State Route 36)
  • EastLink (M3)
  • Wantirna Road (State Route 9)
  • Canterbury Road (State Route 32)
  • Dorset Road (State Route 5)
  • Colchester Road
  • Cambridge Road
East endMooroolbark Road, Lilydale, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbs / townsVermont, Wantirna, Bayswater North, Kilsyth, Mooroolbark, Lilydale
Highway system

In 2011, VicRoads deemed the freeway reservation between Springvale Road in Forest Hill and Boronia Road in Vermont to no longer be necessary for road building purposes, and this section was reviewed for future non-road uses.[2]

In 2018, the section between Springvale Road and Boronia Road was gradually released back to the Crown to become parkland, including bicycle and pedestrian paths.[3]

The land reserved for the Healesville freeway between Boronia Road/Eastlink towards Maroondah Highway in Mooroolbark was further considered to be incorporated - in part - into the Corridor D option[4] of the North East Link (freeway) Project in 2017–2018.

Smaller sections of the original freeway route reservation, at both ends of the route, have subsequently been released for other uses since 1979. The remainder of the land remains reserved for use by VicRoads.

Planned route

Starting at Springvale Road at the border of Forest Hill and Vermont South, the freeway would head east intersecting EastLink with a full freeway junction, it will then head north east, finally joining Mooroolbark Road and terminating at Maroondah Highway at the border of Mooroolbark and Lilydale, linking up with the proposed Lilydale Bypass.

The freeway was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as part of the F9 Freeway corridor, extending past Springvale Road, joining Riversdale Road and winding through Glen Iris to join the M1 Monash Freeway at Burke Road.

See also

 Australian Roads portal

References
  1. "National Library of Australia" http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3033070 "Healesville Freeway route : summary report of planning investigations, September 1979 / Country Roads Board, Victoria - ISBN 0-7241-3212-0"
  2. http://consult.vicroads.vic.gov.au/hfrconsult
  3. "Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning" https://engage.vic.gov.au/healesville-freeway-reserve "Healesville Freeway Reserve"
  4. "Victorian Major Transport Infrastructure Authority" http://northeastlink.vic.gov.au/about/project/project-corridors/corridor-d "Corridor D - North East Link Project"


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