Winter sports kicking off - call for considerate parking

With winter sports kicking off this weekend, players, parents and spectators are asked to pay special attention to their parking around Kensington Park.

“We hope the 200 new parking spaces developed around the athletics gymnasium will ease some of the parking congestion people have experienced on busy winter mornings in past years,” said WDC Group Manager District Living Paul Dell.

“Even so, when people are in a hurry or running late or its raining, they often forget the basic rules about parking around Kensington Park, or that there is new parking by the athletics gymnasium.

“This year we will be issuing infringement notices to people who park on yellow lines. We will be towing away vehicles parked across driveways and issuing infringement notices to those car owners.

“For the first couple of weeks we will also be giving warnings to people who park on the grass, but infringement notices will be issued if people continue to park on the grass further into the season.”

Mr Dell said parking could be quite a contentious issue around the beginning of the season but the best approach was to let people know about extra parking spaces, what the rules are and what action would be taken at the beginning of the season, so everyone was well informed and could make the right choice.

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