Elgin High Street illegal parking spot to be turned into disabled bay
A pavement on Elgin High Street is set to be narrowed to make way for more disabled parking.
The selected pavement has been a popular illegal parking spot for a number of years, but now drivers will have to think twice before pulling in.
The move is intended to make up for the prospective loss of blue badge spaces elsewhere in the town.
Firstly, the disabled spaces on Commerce Street are to be paved over as part of a cycle link being built from Moss Street through to Lossie Wynd.
Moray Council says the flow of traffic through Commerce Street will be reversed and bollards will “remove unauthorised vehicles from the pedestrianised areas”.
A separate proposal to pedestrianise Thunderton Place would see timed bollards blocking all traffic except delivery vehicles between 11am-4pm, thereby limiting the daytime use of the disabled spaces there.
A total of eight spaces are coming to the centre of Elgin.
Both sides of the High Street pavement before Batchen Street – a popular pavement parking spot – will be narrowed to create four of them.
Meanwhile, North Guildry Street will get two of the others.
The North Guildry street spaces could be painted as early as this summer.
However, the council have not yet committed to a date for the High Street spaces, while the construction of the cycle link and bollards is not expected before 2027.
