No stopping signs for commuter overflow carpark

New No Stopping provisions will be introduced to parts of Gosford Councils overflow commuter Car Park in Chambers Place, Woy Woy.

Gosford councillors adopted recommendations from the local traffic committee to provide 12 metres of No Stopping restriction along the southern boundary of the car park between its entrance in Chambers Place and new 90 degree angle parking spaces that have been concluded since the completion of the Woy Woy Oval redevelopment.

Another 125 metres of No Stopping restriction will be applied along the southern boundary of the car park, easterly, from the eastern end of the 90 degree angle parking area.

The implementation of the new No Stopping restrictions will be monitored and reviewed in six months if the parking arrangement is not operating satisfactorily.

In 2015 the local traffic committee considered an item on temporary parking amendments in in the Chambers Place commuter carpark associated with the oval redevelopment.

A number of long-term parking spaces were signposted to short-term parking as a condition of the development consent.

According to a traffic committee report to the May 10 Gosford Council meeting, long-term commuter car parking spaces lost as a result of the redevelopment of the oval have been off-set by the construction of additional long-term parking at the eastern end of the commuter car park.

At the western end, 62 short-term parking spaces, including the newly-constructed 90 degree angle parking spaces along the southern boundary of the car park, are in existence.

"Following the completion of the car park it has been identified that parking restrictions are required for the car park to operate in a safe manner, that is, to allow two-way traffic to pass without obstruction from parked vehicles," the committee report said.

"It would be appropriate to implement a section of No Stopping adjacent to the entry to the car park from Chambers Place and to provide No Parking adjacent to the kerb on the southern side of the car park to allow two-way traffic movements," the report said.

The Committee discussed the loss of some spaces with the implementation of a No Parking zone.

It was acknowledged that additional parking had been created at the eastern end of the car park.

The restriction is required to maintain traffic flows through the carpark.

RMS requested the No Parking restriction be revised to No Stopping restriction.

The committee agreed to approve the recommendation and review the parking situation in six months.

The recommendation was subsequently adopted by council on May 10.

Gosford Council agenda TR.16.16, 10 May 2016