Visitor Parking Permits for Five Dock Businesses
Council recently asked for feedback from businesses in Five Dock to understand how the current parking arrangements are working for them. Feedback is now being reviewed.
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Business Parking Permit - Proposed Change to Fees
Read moreThe fee change was adopted by Council on 19 March 2024.
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Apply for your parking permits
Apply nowYou can apply now for your parking permit for the Five Dock PPS area. If you have any questions, feel free to call Lawrence Huang or Samuel Lindsay in our Traffic and Transport team on 9911 6555.
What's Happening?
Council is implementing a Permit Parking Scheme (PPS) to address parking concerns in the Five Dock town centre.
Following the commencement of construction in the heart of Five Dock for the future Metro West station, and recent feedback on Council’s community-led plan (Our Future 2036), parking within Five Dock has been highlighted as a key area of community interest.
The scheme is anticipated to be implemented in September 2023, and Council has committed to a review of the scheme and its impacts after 12 months. At this point, the community will be encouraged to provide feedback again, and Council officers will review data received on issues, complaints and concerns emerging during the first 12 month period.
Community consultation
Council completed three rounds of consultation with the community from December 2021 to August 2023. 80% of respondents to initial consultation supported a permit parking scheme, and following consultations explored the detailed proposals for each street and types of restrictions at each. As such, feedback was very detailed and individual to residents and the project team responded directly to ideas, questions and requests from the community. Additionally, further changes were made to areas including streets surrounding Five Dock Public School, which required specific discussions and restrictions to ease congestion and support safety for students and families.
Following these consultations, Council's Traffic Committee and Council reviewed feedback and changes, and ultimately resolved to adopt the Permit Parking Scheme with a plan to review the impacts of the scheme after 12 months. The scheme is anticipated to begin from September 2023.
Permit Parking Schemes (PPS) are areas where residents, business owners, and other eligible permit holders are given priority over other visitors in relation to on-street parking. This is typically achieved through the installation of timed parking restrictions with exemptions for permit holders, thereby increasing parking turnover whilst minimising the impact on residents and local businesses.
Council currently operates five PPS in Drummoyne, Chiswick, Strathfield and Concord West. Historically, these locations were selected due to a range of factors affecting the demand for the limited number of parking spaces in these areas. Over the years, these schemes have proven an effective way to balance the provision of parking for visitors to these areas whilst also meeting residents and business owners needs.
On Tuesday 18 October 2022, Council resolved the following that:
1. Five Dock permit parking scheme be implemented with the exception of the streets bordering Five Dock Public School.
2. The excepted streets referred to in 1 above be the subject of a Councillor workshop following consultation with the Five Dock Public School P&C Association and a subsequent report to Council.
3. A report be prepared and reported back to Council on the operation of the Five Dock Permit Parking Scheme and any refinements required, within 12 months of implementation of the Scheme.
Current Actions:
Council staff are currently liaising and gathering feedback from Five Dock Public School P&C prior to undertaking further consultation with the wider Five Dock Community. Stay tuned for future updates.
Council Meeting 15 August 2023 outcome
At the 15 August Council Meeting, Council adopted the recommendations from the Council report, which are as follows:
- THAT parking restrictions be implemented around Five Dock Public School as outlined on the attached plans.
- THAT the Five Dock Permit Parking Scheme be extended to include areas in Trevanion Street, Erina Avenue and Great North Road as outlined on the attached plans.
Adopted Permit Parking Scheme
You can download all maps from the document library on this page.
Overall map of proposed restrictions throughout the Five Dock area. Click to enlarge.
Study area
Map of original study area in Five Dock. Click to enlarge.
