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New parking controls for Fishermans Bend

New parking controls for Fishermans Bend

By Niccola Anthony

Port Phillip Council will introduce parking controls in the growing Fishermans Bend precinct with a three-month rollout starting in October.

The controls were decided on after a consultation process involving community feedback and input from the newly-established Fishermans Bend Business Forum.

Under the new controls, the precinct is separated into four designated parking areas, with restrictions to apply from Monday to Friday between 8am and 6pm as follows:

Area 1: Designates 80 parking spaces with four-hour unpaid timed parking controls, and then further all-day spaces available at a new parking rate of $1.90/hour. Two-hour timed parking controls to cost $1.90/hour in designated areas;

Area 2: Designates a mixture of two, four and six-hour parking controls and a number of uncontrolled all-day parking spots;

Area 3: Designates two-hour timed parking controls on one side of residential streets and no parking controls on the other side; and

Area 4: No new parking controls.

In a July 12 press release, Mayor Bernadene Voss said the “staged approach” of the parking controls would achieve council’s aim of “deterring CBD commuters from taking up parking spots required by local businesses and residents”.

David Weston, executive officer of the Fishermans Bend Business Forum, is pleased with the outcome of the consultation and the final controls. Of major concern to business owners and staff was the lack of all-day unpaid parking under the council’s initial proposal.

“A lot of people who rely on their cars to get to work in the Sandridge Precinct were unable to find an alternative way of getting in and so, as a result, we lobbied to keep some all-day parking until such time as there is better public transport,” Weston said of the forum’s engagement in the process.

While the revised plan retains only a small amount of unpaid all-day parking, Mr Weston acknowledged the council had to balance a number of competing interests.

“It is a compromise and we recognise that Fishermans Bend is going to change as the areas changes but, at the moment, car parking for staff is an important issue and we got an outcome that I think is better than what was initially proposed,” Mr Weston said.

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