Highlands Community Features

The Highlands community is more than just a place to live. It is a lively, self-sustaining centre of activity that provides shopping, education and local employment for its residents.

With a range of specialist shops, cafes and a shopping centre all within easy reach of residents, you can relax at a café and then take the kids out to have fun in the surrounding playgrounds.

Community features include:

Family-friendly dining and entertainment is now available to the Hume community with the opening of the new Highlands Hotel.
Located on the corner of Aitken and Grand Boulevards, this entertainment complex will boast a bistro and dining area, sports bar, gaming and function rooms, and a café lounge.
Highlands Shopping Centre with a Woolworths supermarket, specialty stores including Pretty’s Prime Cuts, Degani Bakery Cafe, Pharmacy Select, Reject Shop, Subway and more with a piazza style town-square.
Choice of Craigieburn’s best schools, including Aitken Creek Primary, Mt Ridley College, Mother Teresa Catholic Primary School and Hume Anglican Grammar and more schools planned.
MCG-sized football oval
Exciting specialised Farmers Markets held monthly on the 3rd Saturday selling home-grown crops, as well as handmade craft, jewellery, retro fashion and more
Community support programs such as Craigieburn Diabetics Support Group and Children’s storytime held at the new Craigieburn Library now open in the Hume Global Learning Centre, Central Park Avenue, Highlands
The $6.3 million Craigieburn Child and Family Care Centre, which provides a broad offering of early childhood services to young parents
$16.7 million Hume Global Learning Centre (now open)