Can we have more spaces if we’re paying?

I would like to thank the Courier for informing me of the new parking charges at Warwick Hospital for disabled drivers. Warwick Hospital certainly kept that quiet, no advance warning, no publicity at all.

My main complaint is now we have to pay for our parking space, but what space? You can never get one. There are so few spaces allocated for our use and the ones designated for us are rarely free. If you are early in the day or late in the afternoon, you can perhaps get one but there again they are often used by the ordinary driver. Somehow they don’t realise that if you are disabled you do need that extra wide space to negotiate our wheelchairs, walkers etc. even ourselves leaving or getting into or out of our car.

I do hope there will be more spaces provided for our use but at the entrances to the main or reception areas, we don’t want them at the far end of the car park.

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I do intend to write to Mr Burley re the limited spaces available to the disabled driver. I would like to ask other like minded people to do so as well. He may take notice of our plea if he is inundated with our letters.

The actual car park needs to be redesigned - a multi-storey one springs to mind as there are never enough spaces available even for the ordinary drivers, especially at the visiting times. How can they now justify charging us for a car parking space when they are so difficult to get?

The disabled driver gets hit again - as if we asked for the disability, we now have to pay for it.

Ronald Buyers, (disabled driver), Leamington