Parking at Broadgreen hospital. Liverpool.

A question about : Parking at Broadgreen hospital. Liverpool.

My OH is due to have major heart surgery next week and may be in hospital for up to 2 weeks. Our local hospital charges for the car park ( sore point) but they also have a weekly concession which usually works out cheaper than daily tickets. I asked at Broadgreen car park office & although they have a weekly ticket, there are only 12 (yes 12!!!) available at any one time- for the whole of the hospital. And you can't order them, it's strictly if there is one available when you ask, you can buy one. Otherwise, it's Ј6.70 a day. So that's nearly Ј100 for 2 weeks. Even in the age of money grabbing car parks, this takes the biscuit. I know I have to pay it, just wanted to vent my frustration at both the injustice of paying to visit your family and at the ludicrous system of rationing the weekly tickets.

Best answers:

• Go straight to the papers , both local and national ..... some are interested at the min.
  Contact your MP and demand action ..... I know MP's are busy with it being an election year
  Who is the PPC ?
  Ralph
• Not according to their website it's not.
  https://www.rlbuht.nhs.uk/OurHospital...20Parking.aspx
  Car park charges
  Up to 2 hours Ј2.40
  Up to 4 hours Ј2.90
  Up to 24 hours Ј5.90
• Plenty of suburban streets around there, shouldn't be difficult to find on-street parking within a ten-minute walk.
• Does your OH want to drive to the hospital, leave the car for two weeks and drive home after the op?
  Having had major surgery myself driving home after may not be feasible as well as invalidating your insurance.
  As you probably know the roads around Broadgreen are resident permits only so be careful if you park on the streets, that your not in a permit only area.
• FoI the hospital for unredacted copies their contract with the PPC, Parking Policy Document and anything else that may affect the T&C's.
  No one on here would ever advocate this, but you could buy 1 hours parking and then take your chances at POPLA, assuming it's a BPA PPC.
  I would never do this personally though...
• It says on their website that there's a multi-storey, so maybe it's barrier controlled, no PPC.
  Sadly I've spent a lot of time at a lot of hospitals in recent years and I've yet to find one where I couldn't park on a residential street and walk (but I do like a bit of a walk and I find it infinitely preferable to paying their pound of flesh).
• It is all barrier controlled, you take a ticket as you enter then pay at a pay station and stick the paid ticket in the barrier to get out.