Update on car parking developments – Sandwell

May 17, 2019

Following the brief on car parking on 9 May regarding the temporary changes to car parking arrangements, work had been ongoing to develop alternatives to offset the loss of car parking capacity.

The Dartmouth entry development work was completed on Monday 13 May. This has created an additional 15 spaces and created a one way circulation route from the front of the DHQ building (Lewisham Street) through to the Dartmouth exit barrier.

The second scheme to create additional capacity opposite the cylinder store going up to the Old Chapel was completed recently and this has created 10 spaces.

A further development scheme will create additional spaces at the rear of the Hallam Close flats, further information and dates will follow on this as we receive details from the contractor.

The location for the medical centre will be Lower Lyndon car park, the lower level patient parking area which exits onto Lyndon. From 1 July this area will be boarded up ready for the development work. This exit onto Lyndon will be closed and a new exit from the Upper Lyndon patient car park will be directed past the entrance to Trinity House, and then exit left towards the Dartmouth barrier.

Due to the loss of patient parking on Lower Lyndon, the car park at the end of Little Lane, known as All Saints Way car park will be reconfigured from a staff car park to a patient car park on 29 June. Therefore colleagues will no longer be able to park on the All Saints Way car park from this date.

The above developments are the reasons we have had to make alternative arrangements and move a number of staff parking to New Square.

In regards to the alternative parking arrangements all the relevant colleagues that will need to relocate have been contacted and further work is ongoing in regards to the car sharing scheme and an incentivised public transport scheme, details to follow.