Extra Parking Spaces in Henry St

Penrith City Centre Association organised, in conjunction with the Penrith Valley Economic Development Corporation, to provide over 100 temporary car parking spaces for workers vehicles in an effort to free up more car parking spaces for customers. 

PCCA Committee Member Gordon Henwood, with Bijai Kumar, Manager of PVEDC, and Glady Reed, Manager of PCCA

The owner of two vacant car yard sites in Henry Street has given permission for PCCA and PVEDC to clean them up and mark out parking spaces to accommodate temporary employee parking. The managers of PCCA and PVEDC, Ms Gladys Reed and Mr Bijai Kumar, said it’s a great example of how small business can move swiftly to address local issues. “It only took us a week to gain permission to use the site from the owner, to organise insurance, order all the necessary signage and to get the site cleaned up ready for line marking.”

Committee member Gordon Henwood took on the job of organising permission to use the site. Owen Rogers of Mul-T-Security and chair of PCCA, joined forces with Phillip Greuff from the ARCS Building Group to organise a voluntary crew from their businesses to clean up the site. PCCA hired a contractor to mark out the parking spaces as well as a security company to lock and unlock the site each day.