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Colin Hampton, in the Elmslie Drive Reserve, has expressed frustrations around trucks parking along the reserve. 409383
Crackdown call By Violet Li A former Frankston mayor is lashing out at Casey Council’s local laws department for failing to curb heavy trucks from parking in his neighbourhood for the past two years. Colin Hampton of Cranbourne East said the same cohort of trucks had been parking along the Elmslie Drive Reserve adjacent to Annabella Street for the last two years between 4pm and 6am, and 24 hours a day over the weekend.
“When Cameron Street was shut two years ago, I started to see trucks,” he said. “One truck was there, and then there were two trucks, and then there were three trucks. “One attracts the other. “We’ve got a big development at the end of Cameron Street. I don’t know how many hundreds of families will be in there. And that open space (Elmslie Drive Reserve) is precious to them, and they don’t want an open space with a truck stop at the front.” According to the Victorian Road Safety
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Rules 2017, it is illegal for a heavy or long vehicle to be parked in a built-up area for more than one hour at a time unless parking signs indicate otherwise, or it is picking up or dropping off goods. As the trucks weigh heavier than the allowed range with no sign around permitting the parking, Mr Hampton brought the issue to the council earlier this year. The subsequent back-and-forth disappointed him. Four months lapsed, and he could still see
trucks parking at the same spots. Mr Hampton subsequently submitted related questions in March and April’s council meetings and received responses from the City of Casey’s director of community life, Steve Coldham, who said that council officers had conducted regular patrols and issued five infringements to trucks parked illegally in the area. Mr Hampton said council officers were obviously not patrolling “regularly”. Continued page 4
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