Plans to extend Coleraine hospital car park submitted to Causeway Coast and Glens Council
Plans to extend the car parking at Coleraine’s Causeway Hospital have been submitted to Council.
The application for 4 Newbridge Road is for “extension of existing car parking area to facilitate requirement to alleviate parking issues on site”.
Planning permission is also sought for “associated drainage and hard and soft landscaping works to integrate additional parking zone into its context”.
The application relates to land within the curtilage of an existing hospital complex.
A Planning Statement said: “The proposal is to provide additional formal car parking spaces within the hospital complex, along with associated access, circulation, lighting, landscaping and provision for future EV charging infrastructure. The car park will be reserved for hospital users and will be integrated with the wider on-site circulation network.
"There is currently a clear and persistent shortfall in on-site car parking relative to operational requirements. At peak times typically all formal spaces can regularly be occupied and parking demand significantly exceeds supply.
"This under-provision of spaces has resulted in obstructive and informal parking along internal access roads, verges and turning heads, and in
locations not designed or marked for parking; risks to road safety and emergency access, including localised narrowing of carriageways, interference with visibility splays, and obstruction at junctions and service access points; conflict between vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists, where vehicles park on or encroach onto footways and shared surfaces.
"These operational issues are directly related to the overall volume of vehicles generated by the hospitals essential services and the lack of existing on-site car parking to accommodate those vehicles during peak periods.”
The application will now go to Council’s Planning Committee for consideration.