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Parking practices cause concern
Hastings District Council’s parking officers are on the lookout for cars parked illegally on grass berms and footpaths.
The Council spends nearly $300,000 every year just on repairing broken footpaths and kerbs, which are damaged by vehicles driving over them to park on grass berms.
Regulatory Services Manager Fiona Thompson said she appreciated some people wanted to keep their cars as far off the road as possible, but pedestrians had a need to use the footpaths too.
"It’s really the mobility scooters, people in wheelchairs and the mothers with pushchairs we’re thinking about. Older people on mobility scooters are sometimes forced onto the road to get around illegally parked cars, and they’re not able to simply get back onto the footpath if a car comes along. We’re also spending a huge amount of ratepayers’ money fixing the damage caused by this sort of parking, which shouldn’t be necessary."
Mrs Thomson said vehicles parked facing the wrong way on the road would also be issued an infringement notice if they were seen.
For more information
Jessica Soutar Barron
Communications Officer
(06) 878 0510 ex. 8629
027 275 5205
