After an increase in contractor traffic and to ensure the safety of our patients, staff and visitors it has been necessary to close the disabled patient car park (11a). We apologise for the swift closure and can assure our patients, staff and visitors that their safety was at the forefront of the decision; this decision wasn’t made lightly.
To mitigate the loss of the 75 spaces we are providing 67 spaces across the following two areas as of Tuesday 29 September:
The car parks listed above were the closest alternative and provided the best access in terms of pathways and appropriate crossing points with dropped kerbs. In both car parks, there will be sufficient signage to navigate users to the disabled bays and spaces will be re-lined to ensure compliance with appropriate space standards.
We acknowledge that some wheelchair accessible vans or cars with boxes fitted to the car roof may not be able to use the multi-storey car parks as they cannot fit under the access entry barrier. There are alternative spaces on site that patients can use but if they are not available, we’re allowing individuals to park across two spaces as long as they display their blue badge in the window. Alternatively, we recommend staff and visitors to use the Park and Ride scheme wherever possible where there is a large number of disabled spaces.
We emphasise that this disruption is temporary while construction takes place. When the build has finished, we’ll reinstate the disabled patient car park (11a) and the disabled spaces we’re providing in car parks 8 and 9 will stay, so there will be more disabled car parking spaces on site as a result of the UHW Lakeside Wing.