Aberdeenshire Council will reintroduce parking restrictions on a Peterhead road amid safety concerns – less than six months after they were scrubbed off.
The parking controls in the town’s Maiden Street area were lifted last year as part of an effort to draw shoppers back into the town centre.
But within days local residents raised concerns that the new arrangements made crossing the road and driving through the town more dangerous.
Now, in the wake of a survey the west stretch of Maiden Street between the Erroll Street and Love Lane junctions, councillors have unanimously voted to reinstate the yellow lines.
Council workers will now repaint around 120ft of lines on the north side of the road, adjacent to the Old Parish Church.
In a report to the Buchan area committee, infrastructure chief Stephen Archer said members of the public will now have 21 days to voice objections to the parking restrictions coming back into effect
“It would appear that there is a growing consensus amongst the elected members to re-introduce double yellow lines along one side of Maiden Street,” he said.
“Therefore it is proposed that the existing double yellow lines are fully reinstated on the north side of the street between Erroll Street and Love Lane, and extended over the current dropped crossing area on the south side.”
Local police chiefs have raised no objections to the proposals.
Elsewhere in the town, councillors agreed to amend waiting restrictions in the nearby Erroll Street.
A disabled park bay will now be moved from one side of the street to the other and the vacated space will come under the existing free short-term parking period of 45 minutes.
Peterhead councillor Tom Malone asked for clarity over whether the new disabled space was in addition to the existing one, or would serve as a replacement. Mr Malone said locals had complained about the lack of short-term parking for collecting goods from nearby shops.
Roads manager Derek Murray clarified that the new bay would replace the existing space.
