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The new hospital car park shown in plans for the site. Picture: West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust We now know that the new £39.2million multi-storey car park at Watford General Hospital will provide 1,290 spaces for staff, patient and visitor use and that in the short term the present essential staff car park will continue to offer 404 spaces. However both West Herts Hospital Trust’s recent information sheet and their architect’s three presentations indicate that it is intended to phase out the latter facility. In the long term, therefore, only 1,290 spaces may be available for all users and yet West Herts Hospitals Trust’s parking consultant, Odyssey, has consistently asserted that it is working on an, admittedly worst-case, assumption of a future 20 per cent increase in hospital visits as the population grows and ages.
The way it should work is that the CCG are ensuring that it s delivering what the county needs, and that it s financially prudent, et cetera. The trust should be coming up with plans that work for everybody, that s the theory. In practice, that doesn t happen. The point at the moment is, have they given it the right due diligence to get to this point? Up to this point, there s been scrutiny by one of our sister campaign groups, who have taken them to court in a judicial review. That was a high court judge saying when you arrived at your strategic outlying case, which is one of the three formal stages, you did that in the wrong manner.
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