Parking

To support fairer access to parking spaces and reduce congestion, Council uses paid parking and time limits to encourage turnover, helping more people access our local shops and services and our businesses to get optimal economic benefit.  

You may have seen over the past few weeks, maintenance works on some of the parking sensor infrastructure in Moonee Valley.  

These works include upgrades to:

• existing underground sensors

• ticketing and payment machines.

Works have been completed in Essendon and Moonee Ponds, with other suburbs within Moonee Valley currently being rolled out, including at Niddrie, Essendon North, Strathmore, Avondale Heights, Flemington, Ascot Vale, Keilor East and Kensington which will transition over coming weeks. 

Works commenced on Tuesday, 28 October and the first works in Essendon and Moonee Ponds go live on 4 December.  The remaining works will be completed by end of December 2025.

Works are happening in existing sensor areas only. Council is not expanding its sensor areas.  

The sensors upgrades have occurred in Essendon and Moonee Ponds.  Works are continuing in Niddrie, Essendon North, Strathmore, Avondale Heights, Flemington, Ascot Vale, Keilor East and Kensington. 

A parking sensor is a small electronic device installed underground, within each parking bay. It detects when a vehicle enters and leaves the parking bay. The sensor notifies our parking officers if a vehicle exceeds the allowed parking time in a particular bay.

All data gathered by the sensors is securely transmitted to a protected storage facility in Melbourne, fully complying with Australian data sovereignty regulations. These sensors do not capture any personal or identifiable information defined, under the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014.

Yes. The sensors are very accurate and receive regular health checks to ensure they record vehicle movements correctly. The sensor time is synced through a central server set to Australian eastern standard time and accurately records when a vehicle enters and leaves a bay. 

Yes. The sensors detect when a vehicle enters and leaves a parking bay. If a vehicle has overstayed the maximum time permitted, a parking officer in the area will receive an alert from the sensor and a parking fine will be issued.  

Council has a responsibility to ensure parking in Moonee Valley is managed effectively. Paid parking and time limits are two ways Council works to make more parking available, and access to parking equitable. These measures prompt regular turnover, meaning more drivers can access the places they need to go, and local traders can welcome more patrons to their businesses. 

All tickets issued from 4 December 2025, with infringement numbers starting with 8, will be directed to a new self-service portal . These can be paid via the methods listed on this page.

Infringement numbers starting with 6 are historical infringements and can be paid using the old system, or via the methods listed on this page.

Infringement numbers starting with 6 can be paid by credit card, phone, in-person or by mail. 

Infringement numbers starting with 8 can be paid by credit card, in-person or by mail. Phone payments for infringement numbers starting with 8 are temporarily unavailable.  

If you need to speak to someone directly, you can call Council on 03 9243 8888.

You can view available evidence including parking photographs and case details through View parking infringement page. 

There is no information available that indicates there is an error with the new system. Assisting you with your concerns is important to us, so please contact the Council on 03 9243 8888 so that officers can take a more in-depth look into your concerns.