People power is to see double yellow lines outside a Dundee school removed.
The decision to end parking restrictions in Gillburn Road, by St Paul’s Academy, comes after a survey of residents. A clear majority of those who took part in the city council poll said they wanted to lines to go.
The lines were laid down as a result of complaints about driveways being blocked after the school opened three years ago.
St Paul’s was formed through a merger of two Catholic secondary schools and has around 1000 pupils.
There had been a number of objections from residents to the no waiting restrictions and this prompted the council to ask for people’s views.
The proposed options were to leave the lines as the were, to limit the restrictions to between 8am and 5pm or to remove them entirely.
A council spokesman said: ”More than four-fifths of residents who took part in the March survey wanted the parking restrictions lifted and a report will now be brought to committee to officially revoke the traffic order.
”In the meantime the double yellow lines will be removed and no enforcement action will be taken in the street.”
He said the council would keep an eye on parking to see if any problems re-emerge.
Strathmartine councillor Stewart Hunter, who is also depute education convener, said he welcomed the outcome of the survey.
”I was approached by a resident before Christmas who said the yellow lines were stopping friends from parking outside their house. The roads engineer came up and agreed that something had to be done.
”Constituents have been calling for this for quite a few months and we have been working hard to get a resolution.”
The council set up a school parking and pupil safety working group. It met for the first time last month in private, but it is understood that parking enforcement was one of the issues looked at and members agreed to hold site visits.
The group’s creation was prompted by complaints from Councillor Rod Wallace about parking problems outside Forthill Primary in his Ferry ward, but councillors decided to carry out a city-wide survey.
Mr Hunter confirmed this would include St Paul’s.
It was important to ensure pupil safety, but measures also needed to be practical and the impact on nearby residents had to be gauged too.
A ”one size fits all” approach would not do and the individual circumstances of each school had to be looked at, he said.
The council has been trying to persuade parents of the need to park safely through its Don’t Park Here campaign.