Dear Editor,

I am growing increasingly concerned by people’s bad parking habits, clearly to try to avoid paying at Ross Community Hospital.

Why do people feel the need to park on the road as you enter the hospital, in the ambulance bays of the hospital and surgery and on the slope coming up from the car park, causing congestion and obstruction to lorrys trying to deliver, emergency and non emergency ambulances and other users? Other drivers use the allocated disabled spaces without a badge, or take allocated staff and doctors spaces because they are just going to be a few minutes.

Yesterday I saw an elderly, but able-bodied chap park his 4X4 on the kerb just past the Alton Surgery car park by the roundabout causing an obstruction for vehicles trying to get round it. Then he disappeared for 20 mins or so into the hospital. Why do people think it is actually ok for them to block everywhere because they are too idle to park in the car park and walk for a few yards.

I have heard staff abused when they have asked people to move when parking in inappropriate car parking spaces, or places.

As I understand it you have 15 minutes’ grace to collect prescriptions etc, and from where the parking camera is situated it would catch you entering and leaving anyway, without going down to the car park.

It is only a matter of time before someone’s selfish abandonment of a vehicle will cause serious injury. Either people start being more considerate when ‘popping’ to the site, or the car parking company should send someone down to police it.

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