Updated 8th December 2003

This website was started because I and a fewscore neighbours felt that Woollahra Council did not share our concerns about parking.  You may have found the site because I visited you, or dropped a flyer in your mailbox, or by word of mouth.

It is our intention to collect ideas that might improve parking, and bring these ideas before our municipal  representatives.

For instance, it seems unreasonable that one set of parking rules should apply to both sparsely settled and densely settled towns.   Yet that is the situation that our NSW state government imposes.

Perhaps WMC could find ways to request the NSW government to amend NSW parking legislation to permit local councils to allow parking "close" to a corner, where parking close would not be a hazard to turning traffic. Points at issue might be:

• Where one of the roads is one-way, then close corner parking might not obstruct turning.
  
• Where a bulky vehicle might obstruct vision, perhaps a sign could specify "Low Profile cars only" or "No vehicles taller than 1.5 metres".
  

Currently, most of us live near the intersection of Elizabeth Street and Sutherland Avenue, Paddington.  We have identified about 13 - 14 local parking spaces that we believe might be recovered.

We have presented a petition to council.  We seek further signatures.  We request that you email support for the petition.

I have previously written to council about some of these issues.  There was a meeting at Woollahra Municipal Council on Tuesday 4th November 2003 that considered the letters I had sent about the parking space outside 19 Sutherland Avenue.  Here are some notes that I took at that meeting.

On the 2nd December the information requested at that meeting was considered, and a resolution made.  The traffic committee also considered a five-ways redevelopment plan.

If you live in Paddington Ward, and have ideas that might improve locality parking, please email details.  I will place those letters on a "suggestions" page, and where an idea gains support, will draw the attention of our municipal councilors to that idea.

I seek your opinion as to whether our Municipal representatives should keep us better informed of impending regulations and approvals, and whether they should invite an electorate mandate on such questions before enaction of regulations & approvals.

Such advice and mandate could be fairly easily achieved by a combination of web pages & email.

On 24th November I attended an ordinary council meeting.  Here is a report of your representatives in action.