One of the
elements contributing to the project achieving five-star rating for taking
“social housing to the next level in meeting sustainability” was the limiting
of onsite parking.
Public
tenants outside the high-rises need to park on the street so returning tenants
thought nothing about parking until Council recently installed two-hour
resident parking signs in Morehead Street and tenants discovered they were no
longer entitled to parking permits.
In
Council’s south, residents of multi-unit developments approved after 1996 are
not eligible to participate in the resident permit parking schemes. Council
argues this helps to limit the increase in parking demand and traffic from new
developments. It is coupled with Council limiting the number of parking places
that they approve in new developments.
As the HNSW
properties are redeveloped the Morehead Street experience will be repeated,
with public tenants being squeezed by loss of street parking access and less
available on site. This important interaction was omitted from the transport
consultant’s study for BEP2. Hopefully, this will be addressed in the new
transport study for the SMDA.
Source: South Sydney Herald December 2011 www.southsydneyherald.com.au