File ref: IRC-2332
6 October 2021
L Chen
[FYI request #16635 email]
Kia ora L Chen
COVID Level 3 Parking Decisions
Thank you for your request made under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
(the Act), received on 6 September 2021. You requested the fol owing information:
• All documents, correspondence and advice on this year’s Alert Level 3 parking
services/enforcement.
• Breakdown of parking infringements issued by location (suburb) and the number of parking
wardens working between 1 September 2021 to 5 September 2021.
Wellington City Council has partly
granted your request for information.
Some information is already publicly available regarding the Council’s decision which may help with your
request, please see below.
In response to the country moving to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 on 23 March 2020 and subsequently into Alert
Level 4 on 25 March 2020, the Council held a virtual extraordinary meeting on 9 April 2020. Discussions
focused on the Council’s Pandemic Response Plan actions for ensuring Wellington gets through and
recovers from the lockdowns, as effectively and quickly as possible.
At the meeting it was agreed to return to full parking fees and enforcement two weeks after a return to
Alert Level 3. Due to the length of time the country was in Alert Level 4 lockdown, two weeks were
required to bring al the parking systems back online, by then the city had moved to Alert Level 2. The
meeting minutes, including the voting structure on this decision, are available on the Council website at:
https://wel ington.govt.nz/-/media/your-council/meetings/council/2020/april/2020-04-09-minutes-
extraordinary-council.pdf (Refer to pg 10).
For the lockdowns which began in August 2021, the Council had posted on the Council website, social
media and on parking meters, advising that the Council would resume enforcing and charging for on-street
parking, as per the decision made in April 2020. As this lockdown was fortunately much shorter, two weeks
were not required to bring all the parking systems back online and we were able to resume paid parking
and enforcement this time within three days into Alert Level 3.
The Council has assessed your request for al documentation, correspondence, and advice to the COVID-19
Alert Level 3 Parking Services enforcement decisions. As your request stands it would take considerable
time to collate the information. The Council would need to review over four months’ worth of information
from the last two years and between 15-19 different council officers (including Councillors) were involved
with advising and making the parking decisions.
To refine your request, you may want to consider refining the:
• time period
• scope of people involved
• types of documents such as final report/decisions, non-administrative correspondence.
Without refining your request, the Council can either refuse your request under section 17(f) (substantial
manual collation or research) of the Act, or we may consider charging. The first four hours is free, but will
be charged at $38.00 per half hour thereafter. We estimate it would take up to 14 hours (total estimate
cost $760.00). Please let me know how you would like to proceed.
Parking infringements issued by location (suburb) between 1 September 2021 to 5 September 2021.
Suburb
Number of infringements issued
ARO VALLEY
13
BROOKLYN
4
CHURTON PARK
2
HATAITAI
22
ISLAND BAY
1
JOHNSONVILLE
5
KAIWHARAWHARA
3
KARORI
5
KELBURN
8
KHANDALLAH
6
KILBIRNIE
5
KINGSTON
5
LAMBTON
319
MAUPUIA
1
MIRAMAR
11
MOA POINT
3
MT COOK
78
MT VICTORIA
47
NEWLANDS
1
NEWTOWN
62
ROSENEATH
13
SEATOUN
1
STRATHMORE PARK
1
TAWA
2
TE ARO
520
THORNDON
72
WADESTOWN
8
WATERFRONT
4
Note: Of the 1,222 infringements issued, 202 of these were warnings.
Number of parking wardens working between 1 September 2021 to 5 September 2021 across Wel ington
city.
Date
Staff working
1 September 2021
25
2 September 2021
32
3 September 2021
34
4 September 2021
25
5 September 2021
11
Total
126
Note: This includes staff in compliance vehicles who attended complaints raised by members of the public.
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Please note, we may proactively release our response to your request with your personal information
removed.
Right of review
If you are not satisfied with the Council’s response, you may request the Office of the Ombudsman to
investigate the Council’s decision. Further information is available on the Ombudsman website,
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
Thank you again for your request, if you have any question please feel free to contact me.
Kind regards
Asha Harry
Senior Advisor
Official Information Team
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