VC proposes changes to parking at Deakin University in 2012
August 1st, 2011 — 2:33pm | Dylan Nickelson
Before you get angry, get informed.
Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Jane den Hollander
On 22 July this year, Deakin University Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor Jane den Hollander emailed Deakin students and staff proposing a number of changes to car parking at the university in 2012. The proposed changes include:
- • increasing the annual fee for general (blue) parking permits from $203 per annum to $250 for students and $400 for staff;
- • increasing fees for daily parking from $5 per day to $7.50 per day;
- • abolishing free car parks at the Geelong Waurn Ponds and Warrnambool campuses, converting them to permit parking areas;
- • discontinuing red parking zones, which are situated further from university buildings but which, at $101.50 p/a for red zone permits, offer a cheaper option than blue permits.
The proposed changes emerge from a review of parking at Deakin by the university’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) Graeme Dennehy and the Finance and Business Affairs Committee (FBAC). The review was tabled at FBAC’s 10 May 2011 meeting and forwarded to the university Council. Council discussed (and presumably passed) the review at its 9 June 2011 meeting [1].
