BY DAKOTA TAIT
Cessnock Mayor Jay Suvaal has written to the Transport Minister and Cessnock MP Clayton Barr in the hopes of changing a controversial parking rule.
The Council's seeking an exemption to a parking rule, which bans people from parking on footpaths and nature strips.
"We are asking the Minister to consider a common-sense approach that would allow Councils to put in place rules that suit local conditions," Cr Suvaal said.
"Within the Cessnock Local Government Area, there are many villages and rural communities where parking on the nature strip does not present a risk to other vehicles or pedestrians."
Council was required to abandon a 'three-metre rule' policy in 2021, which allowed people to park on the nature strip if there was no kerb and the vehicle was at least three metres from the property boundary.
