Hume council will fund the conversion of three standard parking bays into two accessible parking bays on Main Street at Craigieburn Central Shopping Centre.
During the 24 November council meeting, councillor Jim Overend said he constantly had calls from residents to increase disabled parking closer to the shopping centre.
“You’ve got parking all around the centre, but … everyone wants to park down the centre,” he said.
“It makes it hard for people … who have a disability and need to park closer.”
A council investigation into accessible parking bays at Cragieburn Central was conducted following a notice of motion Cr Overend raised in April.
Main Street currently has four accessible bays, Craigieburn Central currently provides 76 accessible bays, out of over 2500.
Cr Overend said he wishes council could put accessible parking everywhere, but that these two new bays will be close to Aldi, banks and solicitors.
Council will invest $7000 into delivering these new accessible parking bays which are expected to be completed before July 2026.
Hume deputy mayor, Ally Watson, said this is a really good example of making a change within the spaces council has to improve the lives of people.
“I witnessed someone have difficulty getting out of their car because there were cars parked very very close,” she said.
“People should park in the middle of a carpark not to the side, no one likes to have their doors bashed by the car next to them.”
