THE final phase of a 15-year development in Southampton has been approved – despite concerns over the number of parking spaces.

Centenary Quay which has been in development since 2009, has been built in phases, and its final phase – phase six, will see another 164 properties added to the complex, 43 of which will be affordable homes.

Another 220 parking spaces will be added, 29 of which will be allocated to residents of the phase five development.

Residents of the phase five development, which consists of two apartment blocks named Arcadia and Adonia, have been complaining for the last 18 months that the permanent parking they were meant to be given, never was.

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Andrew Gregory, the planning officer for the development said: “It has been a challenge because it’s been delivered in a phased manner. There has always been a bit of a catch-up with parking.

“Temporary provision with parking in the later phase and in stage six – we’ve reached a place there is nowhere to go.”

Out of the 87 properties in Arcadia and Adonia, 68 do not have an allocated permanent parking space.

Twenty-nine have had ‘temporary’ parking in a basement car park and 10 have had it in a multi-storey car park, five minutes away.

The 29 spaces being allocated from phase six will mean everybody has a space.

However, the phase six parking allocation of just 29 spaces means that the ‘five-minute away’ parking, which was meant to only be temporary, is now what some of the residents of phase five will be left with.

Kerri Bradford who lives in the phase five development said: “We have basically been handed the short straw in terms of parking.”

Phase six of Centenary Quay was approved and now, providing planning officers are happy that conditions have been met, construction of the final part of the development will commence.