Parking

General parking issues on the public road

Council can investigate and take reports on the following
  • Vehicles over staying time limit parking zones
  • Vehicles parked in permit zones without a permit
  • Vehicles parked on or across a driveway or footpath
  • Parking within 10m of an intersection

Council cannot however expiate or investigate a car that is legally parked, even if that car is directly in front of your house.
Ownership of the property does not extend to the area on the road or public parking space in front of the house/land. 
For immediate action on illegally parked cars, you can call Council on 08 8372 5111, who can issue an expiation but Council are not able to remove cars immediately. If you are unable to exit your property due to a vehicle blocking you in, you can contact SAPOL on 131 444, they will attempt to contact the owners of the vehicle to move it. 

Over sized vehicles parking on the street

If you are concerned with a large vehicle parking on the street and causing a safety issues, Council officers can attend to confirm is the vehicle is overside. 

An Oversized vehicle is defined as
  • A heavy vehicle is defined as any vehicle with a GVM (gross vehicle mass) of over 4.5 tonnes
  • A long vehicle is defined as any vehicle that is 7.5 metres in length, including any load  (e.g attached trailer)

The driver of a heavy vehicle or long vehicle is only permitted to stop on a length of road in a built up area for 1 hour unless:
  • there is a parking control sign that allows the vehicle to stop for longer than 1 hour, or
  • with the exception of a bus, the driver is engaging in the dropping off, or picking up goods.

For example-
If the parking control sign is for a 4-hour zone, then the oversized vehicle can stay for 4 hours.
And, an oversized vehicle may stay for the duration of the time it takes to unload goods (e.g removalist van could stay for 4 hours in a 2-hour zone if removing goods for the duration)

You can report this to us

Shared access and parking

Private laneways or shared-access driveways generally do not fall under Council responsibility and is also not authorised to monitor or expiate any vehicles parked on private laneways or shared access driveways, as it is private land.

You can check your Certificate of Title with landservices to see if you have any ownership of a connecting driveway or laneway. The maintenance of shared access driveways falls with the owner/owners of the land, not Council. You are not able to park in a location that obstructs an access point on the laneway or shared driveway.

For more information on Shared Driveways, Strata Date has a comprehensive list of requirements.

Abandoned Vehicles

If you believe a vehicle has been abandoned (either because it has not moved for a few weeks, or it doesn’t belong to any of the neighbours on the street) you can lodge an Abandoned Vehicle report with Council. You will need to provide a location of the vehicle, and vehicle details (e.g. registration number, make and model). 

Please be aware that vehicles cannot be towed away simply because they are causing an inconvenience to other road users. Vehicles will only be impounded as a last resort after all avenues to locate the owner and have them remove the vehicle have been exhausted.

You can report this to us

 

 

 

 

 

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