Speaker 1: Hannah fitz Harding is the mayor of the City of Frio,
Speaker 1: and improvements are being made to the way that parking
Speaker 1: is managed along the Layton and Porl Beaches. We actually
Speaker 1: spoke about this earlier in the year. Parking will remain free,
Speaker 1: but the City of Frio is introducing four our time
Speaker 1: limits and parking matters to car parks at two of
Speaker 1: the beaches. I would assume that this is to try
Speaker 1: and stop those people that had been essentially living down
Speaker 1: there staying overnight.
Speaker 2: A lot of the tourists that are parking up their vans.
Speaker 3: Maybe not all those though. It's very and they can't
Speaker 3: get in there half the time. Hannah, good morning, Good morning, guys.
Speaker 2: How'd you come up with four hours?
Speaker 4: Look, it's what we've found down at South Beach, and
Speaker 4: it has been quite good at dealing with a similar
Speaker 4: issue down there. Really, the challenge for us is that
Speaker 4: the beaches are incredibly popular port and lation activity starts
Speaker 4: at these beaches pretty early in the morning. You know,
Speaker 4: the polar theirs are there from you know, they would
Speaker 4: have been there for hours, So now they get there
Speaker 4: at some ungodly hour of the morning. And if the
Speaker 4: car parks are full of campers overnight. It makes through
Speaker 4: a bit of a problem. So that sort of sort of,
Speaker 4: isn't it if you like beach goers. So four hours
Speaker 4: to us fields like long enough for people to just
Speaker 4: have a good day at the beach, but probably also
Speaker 4: you want to stay a bit so smart. I'm not
Speaker 4: sure that an eight out date at the beach is
Speaker 4: going to be particularly good for anyone. So we've found
Speaker 4: it works pretty well. And Port and lath and particularly
Speaker 4: Vasion we have a different challenge as well, which is
Speaker 4: because it's nice and closer to a train station there,
Speaker 4: it's been used for the parking ride, which means that
Speaker 4: there's no parking during the day for people who just
Speaker 4: want to get down the beach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon that's a real big issue for you.
Speaker 3: Are you a sun sackey yourself, Hannah?
Speaker 4: I do love the beach, so I divide my time
Speaker 4: between South Beach and between between Later and there are
Speaker 4: are two favorite beaches, right.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine myself staying there for four years? Are
Speaker 3: four years? Four hours do actually extend you stay that long?
Speaker 4: Look, my daughter did nippers down at Lays and so
Speaker 4: that's often quite a long day at the Beach. What
Speaker 4: we've done to make sure things like surf club patrols
Speaker 4: and the people who work in the various sort of
Speaker 4: places down there, whether that's Coast or Orange Box. We've
Speaker 4: introduced a permit system so if people are there for
Speaker 4: legitimately the whole day doing a shift or you know,
Speaker 4: maybe running a workshop down at the surf club, they'll
Speaker 4: be excluded from the four hour limit. Said that system.
Speaker 2: Because Next actually picked that up already.
Speaker 3: While I understand the need for limits, some concern that
Speaker 3: may impact on volunteer surf life savers like me who
Speaker 3: have to patrol between four and six hours at times,
Speaker 3: I also like to add that Fremantle's Beach car park
Speaker 3: as people camping there daily, still, says Nick. Well, this
Speaker 3: is what it's all aim to address, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Hannah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's correct. So you know, we don't want to
Speaker 4: be terribly punitive or anything, but you know, these car
Speaker 4: parks are just filling up, and you know, people leaving
Speaker 4: their car there and go to the city for the
Speaker 4: day and not not you know, that's not where they
Speaker 4: should be parking.
Speaker 1: And do we have areas? Do you have areas in
Speaker 1: your council? This is the bigger question, Hannah, because I
Speaker 1: do see a lot of them up at the other
Speaker 1: end of town, and I do see them there as well.
Speaker 2: Do we have areas.
Speaker 1: Within the council and within our city that can accommodate
Speaker 1: these people though, But we do.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're really covered by things like caravan parks,
Speaker 4: and we appreciate a lot of those are very full.
Speaker 4: We've got one down in the south of Freemantle. You
Speaker 4: would have seen those cute little nineteen eighties kind of
Speaker 4: bungalows that are sort of at the south end of
Speaker 4: Frio there. The challenge for us is if you're encouraging
Speaker 4: people to camp in an area, you really need to
Speaker 4: provide twenty four to seven facilities as some supervision to safety,
Speaker 4: and we don't have a lot of land for that
Speaker 4: in Fremantle, so it is a challenge. You know. We
Speaker 4: appreciate with the housing classes there are a lot of
Speaker 4: people who you know, are sleeping in vehicles and we
Speaker 4: try not to be too punitive. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: we can't have our beach car parks completely excluded from
Speaker 4: beaches because of campus.
Speaker 3: A lot of the National parks, you'd be aware, they
Speaker 3: do allow casual camping, but they have someone who goes
Speaker 3: in there is the caretaker for free camping, and they
Speaker 3: can stay there for say maybe two months, and they
Speaker 3: oversee the operation of that area and move people on
Speaker 3: if required, and if they do not help them, they
Speaker 3: can call the ranger. Is that a possibility you might
Speaker 3: look at Look.
Speaker 4: I don't really think we've got the land available for
Speaker 4: that in Intre. You know, we're a pretty dense urban
Speaker 4: area and we've looked at this a fair bit because
Speaker 4: you know, obviously you want to be as inclusive as possible,
Speaker 4: but you know, an area that a belongs to us,
Speaker 4: we would be suitable to that and see has access
Speaker 4: to those toilet and shower facilities twenty four to seven
Speaker 4: just doesn't really exist for us. And you know, the
Speaker 4: beaches are not the placer. We think that's that's going
Speaker 4: to work out well Marry.
Speaker 2: Fishing Boat Harboring Park there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hannah good be interesting when all all this are
Speaker 3: coming to force.
Speaker 4: It's been rolled out now. I don't think people a
Speaker 4: bit of time to get used to it before the summer,
Speaker 4: and we're just hoping it means to surf club and
Speaker 4: things that happen in the summer. It will just be
Speaker 4: a little bit easier for people to get down there,
Speaker 4: and tiny and parking.
Speaker 2: All right, good on it. Thanks for your time this morning.
Speaker 4: No problem.