Member for Davidson, Jonathan O’Dea has welcomed new measures to crack down on boat trailers clogging suburban streets.
There are around 204,000 boat trailers currently registered in NSW. This number is forecast to increase by around 2.9 per cent per annum for the next decade.
Currently, a boat trailer can be parked for an indefinite period unless there are parking restrictions or reasonable grounds to believe the trailer has been left abandoned or left unattended. This applies whether or not the trailer is registered.
Under the changes, boats left in the same place for more than three months will be impounded.
Mr O’Dea said boat trailers being parked in residential areas have been an ongoing source of frustration for residents in high density areas.
“Increasingly, boat owners are using street parking as a long term parking solution for their boats. This in turn has led to legitimate concerns about the loss of amenity.
“These new measures will allow council officers to specifically target boat trailers which have been parked for considerable periods of time and are causing concern to local residents,” Mr O’Dea said.
The NSW Government has also set aside $5 million to assist local councils and other organisations establish off-street boat trailer parking facilities to help ease congestion.
