Parking at Broadgreen hospital. Liverpool.

Katykat

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 £6.70 a day. So that's nearly £100 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.

Ralph-y

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:cool:

Fergie76

Not according to their website it's not.

http://www.rlbuht.nhs.uk/OurHospitals/Pages/Broadgreen%20Hospital%20Pages/Broadgreen%20Car%20Parking.aspx

Car park charges

​Up to 2 hours​ £2.40​
​Up to 4 hours ​ ​​£2.90 ​​
Up to 24 hours ​ ​£5.90

bazster

Plenty of suburban streets around there, shouldn't be difficult to find on-street parking within a ten-minute walk.

Katykat

Fergie76 wrote: »

Not according to their website it's not.

http://www.rlbuht.nhs.uk/OurHospitals/Pages/Broadgreen%20Hospital%20Pages/Broadgreen%20Car%20Parking.aspx

Car park charges

​Up to 2 hours​ £2.40​
​Up to 4 hours ​ ​​£2.90 ​​
Up to 24 hours ​ ​£5.90

These charges have been raised now. We paid £3.40 for 2 hrs 15 mins yesterday.

esmerobbo

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.

bazster

esmerobbo wrote: »

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.

The permit parking area doesn't seem very large, a short walk should do the trick (although I appreciate this is not much help to anyone with mobility problems).

http://liverpool.gov.uk/media/3271/fmrpz-ocpz-street-list-10-feb-2015.xls

Katykat

esmerobbo wrote: »

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.

No, that's not the plan. It is so I could visit him daily. I'm grateful that his surgeon thinks he has an excellent chance of recovery so obviously I will pay what I have to. I'm not looking for preferential treatment. Just that 12 x weekly passes for a hospital that covers the whole of the NW & IOM seems very inadequate. Not only is it taxing the sick, but its rationing them too. I emailed the hospital, they put the onus on the car park firm & the car park firm blame the hospital. Other than this point I have no complaints with the hospital.

Fergie76

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...

bazster

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).

esmerobbo

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.