Overview
This option focuses on safety improvements around the front of schools while retaining a small number of short-stay car parks on the eastern side (Peachgrove Intermediate).
To deliver a high level of safety for students, parking on the western side (Hamilton Boys’ High School) would be removed. This would help reduce congestion, illegal parking, and unsafe turning movements during peak school times.
Students will have safer walking, cycling, and crossing access near each school, but there would not be a continuous shared path along the eastern side of the road.
Improving these facilities would also make catching the bus easier for everyone.
Indicative cost: $4.0 million with ground-level crossings
- (or $4.3 million with raised pedestrian and cycle crossings)
Same as Option 1, for parents and caregivers dropping off and picking up students, we would:
- Improve parking provision on nearby side streets by introducing time limits (for example, 10 or 15 minutes) during peak school hours.
- Enforce these time limits to ensure parking spaces are available when they are most needed.
Currently, most on-street parking along Peachgrove Road is used by students for longer durations and is unavailable during school drop-off and pick-up times. This leaves parents and caregivers to park on yellow no-stopping lines.
As part of Option 2, we would work with students to identify all-day parking options on nearby streets.
Council would work closely with affected local residents to manage these changes and ensure the best arrangement for each street.
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Key features:
- Shared paths focused on school frontage (815m).
- One new signalised pedestrian crossing near Wilson Street.
- Upgrade (new shelters and accessible kerbs) and relocation of five bus stops outside HBHS.
- One new bus stop (new shelter and kerbs) outside Peachgrove Intermediate.
- Bus stops will be set back from the road.
- Four parking enforcement cameras.
- Retaining 16 short-stay parks and removing 36 along this section.
- Implementing short-stay parking options on nearby side streets.
- Optional: Four raised pedestrian and cyclist crossings at HBHS, Kingsford Mews, Wilson Street, Scott Avenue (additional cost).
| Benefits | Things to consider |
| Introduces safety improvements at key locations around schools. | Moderate to high upfront cost (lower cost than Option 1). |
| Retains some on-street parking on Peachgrove Road. | Lack of separated shared path on the eastern side of Peachgrove Road means students travelling south would need to cycle on the road or footpath. |
| Separated shared path on western side of the road would make it safer for students walking, cycling and scooting. | Retaining parking on the eastern side of Peachgrove Road means Option 2 would not address issues of congestion, unsafe manoeuvres (like U-turns) and visibility to the same extent as Option 1. |
| Would address safety concerns at the busiest crossing point on Peachgrove Road (near Wilson Street). | Removal of on-street parking on Peachgrove Road would redirect traffic to nearby streets during peak school times. |
Reduction of on-street parking on Peachgrove Road and addition of short-stay parking on side streets (during peak school times only):
| Construction impacts would cause temporary delays/disruption. To minimise disruption, most construction would be in January 2027 when schools are closed. |
| Build out of berms would help to discourage U-turns in some locations. | Unspent funding allocated to this project would go back to Elected Members for a decision on whether to save it or reallocate it to other transport projects. Additional improvements would require future budgeting decisions. |
| Bus stop upgrades with shelters would make it easier for people of all ages and abilities to get on and off the bus in any weather. | |
| Installation of four parking enforcement cameras would encourage better, safer parking behaviour. | |
| Upgraded crossing at Peachgrove Intermediate would have extended kerbs to shorten the crossing distance. |
