We’ve received the following photographs from a very frustrated resident. These shots were taken today (25th June) at 1.00pm.
This first photograph shows Neerim/Kokaribb Streets, Carnegie. There is:
- no warning sign to indicate the closure of Kokaribb Street and,
- all cars forced to detour via the shopping centre car park. Great for shoppers!
The second photograph shows:
- pedestrian access blocked
- construction trucks and witches hats taking over car parking spots
- thus we have a situation where shoppers, pedestrians, and traffic is all caught up in the snarl of cars making u-turns because of unannounced street closure.
Thus,
- can’t council co-ordinate street closures and traffic better than this?
- what does this do to local traders? or,
- do developers get top priority in Glen Eira?
PS: We’ve received another photo from a different resident. This time the shot was taken at 7am yesterday morning. Readers, please note the number of car parking spots that are taken up by trucks and contractors and undoubtedly staying there all day. Who would want to be a trader in this vicinity now?
Glen Eira Debates 
June 25, 2015 at 3:14 PM
What’s appalling about this is that it clearly shows Council doesn’t give a rats behind about public safety or small business livelihood when it comes to development. We already knew they care even less about amenity impacts on your average Joe Blow.
Residents have been complaining for ages about developers creating public safety issues by breaching well known traffic and parking rules in nearby residential streets, now here it is in the core of the Carnegie Centre where the public safety issue is much, much more significant – it’s where the public congregate and it’s why it’s a centre for heaven’s sake.
It’s not confined to Carnegie, it’s happening everywhere – in all the various centres and their surrounding residential streets.
It really is time Council actually addressed this issue and enforced the same rules on developers that it applies to normal citizens. This is way beyond giving the odd tradie a break – it’s becoming a major public safety issue.
June 25, 2015 at 4:05 PM
This is of course yet another VCAT-imposed development, with the conditions in the Planning Permit being the ones dictated by VCAT. Of course Council actually drafted the conditions, so both are responsible for whatever garbage ended up in the Traffic Management Plan that was deemed acceptable.
This is a road closure, one of several that the developer has made around the site over the course of construction, so a starting point is to determine whether the developer applied for, and obtained, a Road Closure Permit, and what conditions were put on that Permit. There will be an officer responsible for the decision.
If the closure is not in accordance with the Permit and Traffic Management Plan, or no Permit was obtained, then Council’s Enforcement Officer should step up and take appropropriate action. My own experience is that Council doesn’t believe enforcement is ever appropriate.
June 26, 2015 at 10:13 AM
You kidding. Council parking officers will never book the builders or their workers. Untouchable.
June 25, 2015 at 5:54 PM
Re the addition of all day parking in the 2P council carpark – it not only includes construction workers by also the vehicles of nearby high rise residents.
Since, unlike Bentleigh or Elsternwick, Council only patrols the Carnegie carpaks every second blue moon.
June 25, 2015 at 8:43 PM
GECC installed a Works Zone in Kokaribb Rd Carnegie but as a novel economy measure they installed only one sign, not a pair to define the extent of the zone. Wonder if any motorist has been pinged for parking outside the area where the second sign was supposed to go.
June 26, 2015 at 12:36 AM
It’s good to read Glen Eira News that we “should shop local”. The traders are going broke with 36 restuarants/coffee lounges and all the construction workers whochave organised swaps of their car parks in the limited parking area. Perhaps the Walter builders could ow use the underground car park under their own building. Maybe council could run a free bus once or twice a week to ferry shoppers around because the car parking situation is intolerable. It is always difficult to walk alonf the footpaths too as one restaurant has over forty chairs and thirteen tables in public area. Sometimes it takes about a kilometre of driving around and around to find a landing spot.
Some spots could be marked as 30 minute limits!