Latest on truck parking: power to enforce now sits with Auckland Council

The Transport Governance Amendment Bill has passed, and it changes who’s responsible for fixing illegal and inconsiderate truck parking in Wiri.

Enforcement authority for parking is moving from Auckland Transport to Auckland Council. That shift lines up with what WBA has been arguing for months. When we presented to the Parliamentary Regulations Review Committee in Wellington, the Committee confirmed the power to set and enforce the Vehicle Use and Parking Bylaw 2025 sits with Auckland Council.

Most roads in Wiri are classified as arterial roads. That means enforcement decisions here now go through the Governing Body directly, not through the local boards. It’s a meaningful distinction for our advocacy, because it tells us exactly who we need to be talking to.

This isn’t a step back for WBA. If anything, it confirms what we’ve been saying all along: the gap in enforcement has never been about a lack of evidence, it’s been about which authority actually has the power to act. Now we know, and we’re taking our case straight there.

Over the past two years, Auckland Transport issued 665 stationary infringements in Wiri, 397 of them for the V207 offence, heavy vehicles left parked overnight with no rear hazard lights. AT’s enforcement officer, who WBA works with on a daily basis, has indicated the true figure is likely well over 2,000, reflecting infringements issued outside the formal reporting captured in that data. Either way, the message to Council is the same: the scale of the problem is significant, and it needs a bylaw resolution behind it, not just enforcement on the margins.

We want to see more consistent enforcement action on inappropriately parked heavy vehicles, and we’re also pushing Council to consider other interventions, including yellow no-stopping lines on the worst-affected streets, to give enforcement officers a clearer and faster basis to act.

WBA is adjusting its advocacy accordingly. We’ll be engaging directly with Auckland Council and the Governing Body to push for the bylaw resolutions needed to give enforcement teeth on the ground in Wiri, particularly around known hotspots.

The pressure on illegal and inconsiderate truck parking isn’t letting up, and neither are we. We’ll keep businesses updated as this advocacy progresses.