title: “CBA Car Parking Strategy (2007)” council: ballarat state: vic category: strategy status: adopted last_compiled: 2026-04-13 source_docs:
- city-of-ballarat-car-parking-strategy-october-2007.txt
- city-of-ballarat-car-parking.txt
CBA Car Parking Strategy (2007)
The Ballarat Central Business Area (CBA) Car Parking Strategy was prepared by Maunsell Australia in October 2007. It provides the empirical parking supply and demand analysis underpinning parking rates and management in the CBD.
Key Content
The strategy covers Precinct 1 (the core CBD) and assesses:
- On-street parking supply and demand, including the Hospital Precinct and Sturt Street
- Main off-street parking supply and demand
- Smaller off-street car parking areas
- Parking rates determined by both supply and demand methodologies
- Comparison of planning scheme parking rates against actual conditions
Planning Relevance
- Informs the parking overlay and parking rate requirements in the Ballarat Planning Scheme for the CBD
- Relevant context for the cbd-strategy and CBD Urban Design Framework when considering parking provision in CBD redevelopment
- The integrated-transport-action-plan and cycling-action-plan represent the policy shift toward reducing car dependency that post-dates this strategy
Current Status
Adopted (2007). The strategy is now nearly two decades old and pre-dates significant policy shifts toward sustainable transport and reduced parking requirements. It is likely due for review, particularly as CBD urban renewal intensifies. No replacement has been identified in the corpus.
Gaps
- No updated car parking strategy post-2007
- Does not reflect current sustainable transport policy direction or the ESD Policy requirements