Call for parking overhaul in Nundah

Parking in Nundah is a meaty issue for one resident, who just wants to be able to stop in quickly to buy a pie at his local shop.

Wes Morris of Nundah just wants to be able to go to his local shopping strip to buy a meat pie. Picture: Peter Cronin

WES Morris just wants to buy a meat pie at the local shops.

But the parking in Nundah’s CBD is such a nightmare that what should be a quick trip down the road becomes a painful outing.

To counter the parking problem, Mr Morris wants Brisbane City Council to extend its policy of “supercharging” parking from the city to the Nundah CBD, limiting parking along Sandgate Rd at Nundah between the ramp and the roundabout, to a 15-minute only free parking zone.

He would also like to see the restrictions placed on parking for about a block away from the main shopping strip enforced in each of the side streets along the same stretch of Sandgate Rd.

“I acknowledge that by doing that you exacerbate the real shortfall of car parking ... so people are disenfranchised further. I accept all of that,” Mr Morris said.

He said he hoped it would make Council “bite the bullet” and build a multistorey carpark for the displaced vehicles and take action to address what he sees as the real issue behind the parking woes in the suburb — insufficient parking in local high-rises.

“The Council has to have some responsibility of their quite slack town planning regulations,” he said.

“This is an overall town planning issue.”

Northgate Ward Councillor Adam Allan did not rule out implementing 15-minute parking zones in Nundah, provided data from an official and comprehensive parking review supported the notion.

Cr Allan said there was no confirmed start date for the review process but he hoped it might begin before the year’s end.

Cr Allan also said he was not sure town planning regulations were the cause of parking woes in Nundah, but said he would wait on the result of the parking review before commenting with certainty.

“Really we need that data before we can make a call on planning,” Cr Allan said.