HOSPITAL visitors have complained about the lack of parking provision at Royal Bournemouth Hospital due to car park work.

In order to begin work on the hospital’s new Maternity, Children’s, Emergency and Critical Care Centre (MCEC) building, as well as main entrance work, a number of car parks have been closed off and are to be relocated.

However, with the hospital’s two main car parks on arrival, car parks A and H, due to be relocated and closed respectively, elderly and disabled people have expressed concern at having to walk from the other side of the hospital.

The current work at the hospital started on February 26, with b parking relocated to the rear of car park C.

From March 1, car park B was made available to blue badge holders only and staff with car park permits were given allocated spaces in Littledown.

Drop-off locations near the main entrance are in use, as is the drop-zone adjacent to the hospital’s emergency department.

However, visitors have said the allocated time for which you can stay there is too brief and there are very few parking places to begin with.

Edwin Davies, director of estates and capital development at the hospital, said: “As part of the important enabling work for the transformation work at The Royal Bournemouth Hospital a range of new car parking arrangements have been established.

“We understand these changes will have an impact on the public and so have tried to mitigate disruption wherever possible.”

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