Demands for more Parking at The Royal Bolton Hospital

More Parking spaces for Staff, patients and visitors.  Thats the demand made by Hulton Councillor Andy Morgan during last weeks planning meeting.

The Royal Bolton came under fire during a Town Hall planning meeting at which proposals for a mobile operating theatre were discussed.

Procedures have been carried out in the temporary surgery since December. It is on a car park near to the Princess Anne Maternity Unit and is being used while theatres inside the main hospital building are revamped.

Retrospective permission was given by councillors - but they criticised bosses at the hospital for failing to address problems with a shortage of parking spaces.

The Royal Bolton Hospital has been granted planning permission to use the temporary operating theatre until December this year.

But members of the planning committee have warned the hospital that if they apply for an extension to that they must provide a full review of parking.

Cllr Andy Morgan (Hulton Ward) said: "The hospital seem to have little regard for the continued problems experienced by both staff, patients and visitors with respect to parking. The temporary permission for the theatres should only be granted until the end of 2008.

"If the hospital have any further aspirations for its continued use past this date than a scheme for improved parking, preferably a multi storey car park as previously submitted, should be lodged with the council as soon as possible."

Cllr Norman Critchley (Conservative) added: "It is subjecting the residents of that area to absolute hell and anyone trying to use the hospital. I wish they'd consider giving parking as good a consideration as the good health of the people of Bolton."