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Published on 09 September 2026
We acknowledge public concerns regarding parking infringements around school drop offs and on nature strips within narrow streets. While safety needs to remain our priority – some residents who have been affected are rightly fed up. We do have a problem that I’m committed to fixing. While our contractors are enforcing Victorian road rules, the way those rules are being applied is not always producing fair or sensible outcomes. In many of these cases though, they’re responding to community complaints in relation to safety issues. We agree, in certain instances, that people should not be fined for trying to do the right thing – particularly in narrow streets where parking entirely on the road may obstruct traffic or stuck in traffic around busy school pick-ups. Our current one-size-fits-all approach is not working. We need to own that and fix it. While we may not have the answers right now – we’re reviewing these situations and we’re committed to providing a fair and equitable balance between a fair response and community safety. If people believe that they have been unfairly dealt with in this regard, we encourage them to submit an application for an internal review of the decision to issue a fine, which can be done through the Shire’s website. The answer is not to stop enforcing parking rules across our shire altogether. It’s to apply them with common sense and achieve a fairer result for our community.