Residents at Dundee’s City Quay are suffering parking “pandemonium” after new double yellow lines made room for cars almost impossible.
The tenants, who have formed a group campaigning for better facilities at City Quay, say something has to be done to alleviate the parking problem before it becomes even more of a nightmare for car owners.
The group say there were already only 116 available parking spaces, which is not even one per flat.
Now new road markings on South Victoria Dock Road and Gourlay Yard the area surrounding the Southern Wharf complex have increased frustrations for residents, including Lynne Noble who described the situation as “pandemonium”.
She said: “We were already struggling to park and now with the addition of the yellow lines, there is nowhere to go.
“Some people have bought allocated spaces but cannot use them because they are constantly being used by other people.”
Miller Homes the company that took over the completion of the flats in 2012 after the original developer, FM Construction, went into administration says it was aware that parking could be an issue so approached the council which permitted them to place more spaces on the site.
However, no such arrangement was in place under the previous agreement and, as a result, an inadequate amount of spaces was created for the development.
Lynne said: “Before the yellow lines were painted we could park on the street, which eased the pressure a bit. Now that area is off limits, it is a nightmare.
“The fact that the Unicorn plans to increase its activity down here will only add to the parking issues and create big problems for residents and visitors to the city.”
She says the issue will be further exacerbated after plans for 80 new flats were revealed this week.
A spokesperson for Miller Homes said: “Following our appointment we soon identified that parking may be an issue and approached the council who then permitted us to create additional spaces on the site.
“This meant that every apartment sold by Miller Homes at City Quay came with access to a parking space, albeit these spaces were not allocated.
“We were not involved in the planning stages of the development and are therefore unable to comment on the number of car parking spaces originally proposed by FM Construction.”
A spokesman for the city council said: “When the road layout for the area was agreed, the developer was required to install the double yellow lines that have now been put in place.
“A Traffic Order which came into force in 2008 and a Consolidation Order, in place from March 2012, provide the legal framework for the lines.”