Neighbourhood Parking Workshops
Register now to attend one of our in-person workshops. These sessions will review feedback and data of the North Melbourne parking system currently available.
North Melbourne is growing. With a range of pressures impacting on-street parking including Metro tunnel works, affordable housing developments, growing population, Urban Greening projects and more, it's crucial that we review parking across North Melbourne to make sure it works now and into the future.
That’s why we’re working with the North Melbourne community to understand parking needs for businesses, residents and visitors to help us deliver improvements to on-street parking.
These changes won't be 'set and forget' — we know that it can take several months for parking behaviours to adapt, so we'll give the community time to adjust to any parking changes and will review the performance of the new conditions each year and fine-tune them where necessary. Through this process, parking conditions may evolve over several years.
We have undertaken similar neighbourhood parking reviews in the central city (CBD), Carlton, Southbank, Kensington, West Melbourne and East Melbourne.
We will be back to engage on proposed changes in November 2025 before the first round of updates begin in 2026.
Register now to attend one of our in-person workshops. These sessions will review feedback and data of the North Melbourne parking system currently available.
We have supported and worked with a range of projects across North Melbourne, and many have received feedback on parking. This has been collated by our team and will be used to support our in-person engagement and first round of changes.
We have received 93 responses as of June 2025:
25 submissions to reduce parking space for other uses (greening, bike lanes, pedestrian access)
20 submissions regarding lack of parking availability
13 submissions on the need for updates or adjustments to resident exemption parking
Parking services staff worked closely with the team to develop FAQs and take on key feedback from traders and residents.
Errol Street received 1196 survey submissions with 219 (18%) referencing car parking.
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Parking services staff attended in-person pop-ups regarding affordable housing sites and participated in the Community Reference Group sessions to provide parking updates.
Victoria Street Affordable housing received 1964 survey submissions with 379 (19%) referencing car parking.
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Parking Services staff helped facilitate reference group work for the Royal Park Master Plan as well as sit on the ongoing Working Group for development of the plan.
Royal Park Master Plan received 4622 survey submissions with 530 (11%) referencing car parking.
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Parking services staff attended in person pop-ups regarding works on Chapman Reserve.
Chapman Reserve received 301 survey submissions with 34 (11%) referencing car parking.
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We know there are a range of infrastructure, housing and transport projects being undertaken by the State Government across North Melbourne. These include the West Gate Tunnel Project, tram updates, Affordable and Public Housing changes, and health precinct works.
We work closely with these teams to manage parking and are monitoring these changes to align parking works with the delivery of key changes across North Melbourne.
Several key themes have emerged from feedback to date:
We know that parking bays across North Melbourne support on average 5 arrivals per day. In the CBD that number is 23 per day.
By reviewing and updating the various controls such as time restrictions, length of stay or permit exemptions, we can look at incremental increase in arrivals in a bay which means parking is working for more people more often.
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Timeline item 1 - complete
Parking and Kerbside Management Plan endorsed
July 2023
Timeline item 2 - active
North Melbourne parking review
July 2025 to August 2025
Timeline item 3 - incomplete
North Melbourne proposed changes engagement
2025
Timeline item 4 - incomplete
North Melbourne improvement works begin
2026
Timeline item 5 - incomplete
North Melbourne Check-in
June 2026
Timeline item 6 - incomplete
North Melbourne Annual Review
Coming soon
We are reviewing and updating on-street parking across the municipality. Tell us what you think about parking in other neighbourhoods.