Multi-storey car park plans for hospital site

A multi-storey car park could be built at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford to alleviate parking issues, a meeting has heard.

Health bosses at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) revealed that they were in the early stages of planning the structure at a meeting on Friday.

The location and number of spaces it would offer have not been decided, and there is not yet planning permission for it.

Matthew Neal, director of SaTH's hospitals transformation programme said it was working with Telford and Wrekin Council on the plans.

Neal also told the joint health overview and scrutiny committee meeting that in the short term more spaces would "come online in the next week" near the Ironbridge Suite.

During the meeting, Labour councillor for Madeley and Sutton Hill, Derek White, described the parking at the site as an "absolute joke".

"It is a nightmare. The site gets backed up and it takes 25 minutes if you are lucky to get a space."

He also said he had been fined £15 because spaces were "not properly marked up".

The committee was also told that public transport ideas were being considered, and employees were "encouraged" to use the staff only park-and-ride arrangement at AFC Telford United's ground in Wellington.

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