We live in Thompson Street and have notice a huge increase in people who have Te Aro parking permits driving in the morning to residents parking spots outside the house, leaving them there all day then taking them away at night. It is not helpful when you live in Thompson Street not be able to park here

The Dom Post article does not fully reflect what the Council is proposing, this one option presented by the media is at the extreme end of what MAY happen, wait for the facts before flying off the handle people.

Make parking more expensive. If there is a shortage of carparks keep raising the prices until enough people stop trying to park on the street. If you really want to park outside your house, you'll pay for it. If you can't afford to park but you think you need to, you can't afford to live there. If you have a boat that needs a park, you can afford to join EBYC or similar and park it there.

I'm on Tinakori Road and although we have a residents permit we often find that during the week there are no parks due to commuters taking all the parks. There should be a restriction on how many coupon parkers can use the residential parks.

@Magsta: Would be nice to live without a car (and we walk / use buses when we can) but my husband's a musician and needs it to take gear to work and gigs. It's the commuters working in offices who should be using alternate transport or parking buildings - there's plenty available for most people.

First and foremost increasing prices for resident permits is not the way to go. By all means limit it to 1 per household but resident parking permits should not be focused on revenue gathering; they should be about preserving parking space for residents that need them (I can understand a small charge helps provide a small disincentive to people getting them just for the sake of it); but why should we have to pay for parking just cause we live centrally?? Have lived in the Mt Victoria and Oriental Bay region for the last year and a half (generally I would say although at times it takes a little while to find a park there is always something relatively near by) and I am slightly surprised that I would be 1 of only 5% not having offstreet parking; thought it would have been higher (especially with a high number of households split into several flats). So in my situation I have to pay for annual parking; it's bad enough but stomachable to pay $90 but really any more is pretty unfair and makes it quite questionable as to the motive for the scheme.

Oh, and what the article fails to mention is that although there 3748 permits vs 2176 resident parks, resident parking permit holders can also use coupon parks; so in effect there are more eligible parks.

In our street there's next to no parking because of all the coupon parkers during the day. These are the people who should be charged higher fees - it's their decision to bring their car to work and clutter up the narrow inner city streets, so they should be paying a congestion charge. Parking should be free for residents and expensive for commuters.

I live in the berhampore area on one of the busiest roads in this part of wellington with no off street parking surprise surprise. There is no residential parking available outside the house i own and there is very limited parking spaces. Can be hard for our family as we have 3 children under the age of 5 so can be dangerous with the cars and crazy buses. But what really anoyys me is the house across the road that has 5 cars, and the council apartment residents that live close by that park their 2nd cars there too as they are allocated a park within their flats...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz Anyway, would be nice if this was a residential parking area and the process of obtaining one of these permits surely must be reviewed as is evidently not a robust one as there are loopholes.

haha, you all make me laugh. I'll bet you all want free unrestricted parking. Guess what would happen if that were the case? You would all be whinging about there not being any parks! The restrictions that are in place and are being discussed are to benefit the residents that can't get residents permits because others are abusing the system. The council is a non profit organisation you fools, hahahahahahaha

These folks choose to live in accommodation without off-street parking. they should take their chances with finding a park just as does every other visitor to their street. if they want inner city living, then maybe they should adjust to living without their cars.... or they could buy car parks at commercial rates... the same as the rest of us when we are forced to park in pay zones when we venture into these exclusive suburbs.

On the topic of residents' parking, it bothers me to see so many empty spaces during the day when it's impossible for non-residents to find a park. I like the system in other countries, where non-residents can park in resident zones for up to two hours during the day.