After the consultation process this year, Blacktown Council in Sydney has created and named eight new suburbs.
The new suburbs have been created alongside the existing suburbs of Colebee, Marsden Park, Schofields, Shanes Park, Riverstone, Rouse Hill and Vineyard.
Blacktown Sun reports the newly created suburbs will be named Melonba, Lynch, Angus, Richards, Kwigan, Wran and Grevillea Grove.
The change has been attributed to soaring population growth and to have different names for new stations opening on the skytrain Metro line from 2019, Blacktown Advocate reports.
The revised names and boundaries for the suburbs will now be sent to the Geographical Names Board for approval.
The change is likely to affect many members of the Indian community living in the council.
According to Census 2016, India-born migrants were the top migrant group living in the council area while Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Gujarati were the top languages after English, spoken by the people living in Blacktown council.
The significance of Indian population is reflected in the fact that Blacktown council website has two Indian language versions available in Hindi and Punjabi.
Council area resident Arpan Baxi’s residence now falls in the newly named suburb of Lynch. He told Blacktown Advocate that everyone within the Lynch suburb was unhappy.
“We don’t want this change ... all the amenities are now in the Marsden Park suburb we have nothing, only a park, we are first home buyers here and this is going to affect our house prices,” he said.
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