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Free parking on offer close to Sandwell Hospital: Call for volunteers

April 17, 2019

Following the announcement on 29 March regarding the temporary changes to car park arrangements, work has been ongoing to develop alternatives to offset the loss of parking capacity whilst the development of the new health centre and multi storey car parks (MSCP) are built at Sandwell and City. The health centre development at Sandwell is due to start late June/July, which means that new arrangements will need to be in place from Monday 3 June.

A key element of our alternative arrangements is the provision of parking spaces at the New Square multi storey car park. The Trust has purchased these spaces and is offering them to colleagues at no cost. The car park is a short walk (10 minutes) from Sandwell Hospital and provides secure, well-lit car parking with the guarantee of a space. We are seeking volunteers who currently have a parking permit and are based at Sandwell to change their parking arrangements and utilise this new scheme for the duration of the development, up to January 2021.

If you are interested in this free parking option please email diane.alford@nhs.net by Tuesday 23 April.

 More information about the temporary changes to car parking

At Sandwell Hospital we are building a new health centre on the Lower Lyndon visitor car park, this means that we will have to create additional visitor car parking spaces to offset the loss of spaces on Lower Lyndon. The current All Saints Way staff car park will become a visitor car park.

There are a number of further schemes to manage the reduced car parking demand.

  • Creation of an additional 80 car parking spaces on our existing sites
  • Discounted public transport passes for colleagues
  • Car sharing scheme with reduced parking costs
  • Restricting parking for colleagues who live within one mile of, and are based at, Sandwell site
  • Relocate colleagues to the New Square multi storey car park

The first part of the plan is to request colleagues who currently hold a parking permit and are based at Sandwell to volunteer to relocate their parking to New Square for the period of the development which could be up to January 2021.

Staff parking at New Square has the following benefits:

  • Charges for your current SWBH pass will be suspended but will still allow parking at City and Rowley at all times, and for Sandwell at weekends only
  • Free parking at New Square in the MSCP only Monday to Saturday (free to all Sunday)
  • Parking at New Square will be in the MSCP, this facility will be open from 5am to 10pm and patrolled by three parking officers throughout that period with additional CCTV coverage