Extra Parking Spaces for Christmas

Customer parking is always hard to find in the Penrith city centre, but never more so than in the lead up to Christmas. The Penrith City Centre Association will, once again, be organising a free Christmas trolley bus to help move shoppers around the city centre. This year it has also 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 customer. 

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. Everything will be ready to open up the site for worker’s parking on Monday 30th November which will be available through to December 24.”

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 has hired a contractor to mark out the parking spaces as well as a security company to lock and unlock the site each day while it’s in use.

Penrith City Council has advised PCCA it is negotiating to provide some temporary employee car parking in other possible locations in the CBD and soon PCCA will be delivering flyers to local businesses advising them of all temporary car parking arrangements for the Christmas period.