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Mount Penang Juvenile Justice Centre

Central Coast Council (New South Wales)Defunct prisons in New South WalesJuvenile detention centres in AustraliaNew South Wales State Heritage RegisterUse Australian English from June 2018
1667 Mount Penang Parklands (5053898b1)
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The Mount Penang Juvenile Justice Centre is a heritage-listed former juvenile detention centre, now a parkland and redevelopment precinct known as Mount Penang Parklands. It is situated on the Pacific Highway at Somersby, Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by James Nangle and built from 1912 by the New South Wales Public Works Department. It was also known as The Farm Home for Boys, Girrakool and Kariong Juvenile Detention Centre. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 19 September 2003. Today, Mount Penang Parklands is a redevelopment precinct containing parks and gardens, a high school, an events park, commercial and office space and residential development.

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Mount Penang Juvenile Justice Centre
Carinya Street, Gosford Kariong

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2250 Gosford, Kariong
New South Wales, Australia
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