Yellow ‘no-parking' lines outside a Tauranga special school have lasted less than a fortnight after an outcry from the school forced the city council to admit fault and have them partially removed.

Council contractors removed a section of the yellow lines from Kaka Street yesterday afternoon following a week-long internal investigation into why the markings were put in place without consultation with Kaka Street Special School.

The yellow lines outside Kaka Street Special School. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

The markings were painted on Saturday, February 14 before a surprised principal Barrie Wickens arrived the following Monday to find no parking available to load and unload students legally.

A statement posted on the website outlines some of the yellow lines were removed because the street is a narrow ‘no-exit', and with the school at the far end, it creates some competing vehicle needs in the cul-de-sac.

'All day parking needs to be discouraged from the top of the cul-de-sac,” reads the statement. 'This is to make sure that all vehicles have enough space to turn, particularly large buses and rubbish trucks.

'School mini-buses need space to line up during pick-up and drop-off times.”

Council admit the new yellow lines successfully addressed all day parking concerns but did not allow for the needs of the school mini-buses.

It is understood the road markings come after council received one complaint from a resident and a couple of rubbish truck drivers.

The statement continues: 'With the lines removed, council may look at putting in some time restrictions or establishing a formal pick up/drop off area.”

Kaka Street Special School principal Barrie Wickens says it is a very good outcome given the 'blunt manner” in which the markings appeared. He adds council have responded in a 'timely and positive manner”.

Council's travel safe coordinator Angela Joyes contacted Barrie with the news yesterday morning, informing him that most of the yellow lines at the turning end of the Kaka Street cul-de-sac and one parking space would be blacked out in the afternoon.

He says council will then monitor whether any unnecessary parking is taking place and look at putting in some possible time restrictions in the future.

'They have already taken action to alter the dangerous footpath slope at the end of the cul-de-sac to make it more wheelchair friendly,” adds Barrie.

Teachers often walk or cycle with students as part of their therapy program, but due to the width of the wheelchairs and trikes being wider than the footpath, they are becoming unbalanced and a struggle for the carers.

'They created it and that have actually done a pretty satisfactory remedy,” he says.