Disabled parking at Stafford Hospital.

Prawn cocktail

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I have not been one to criticise Stafford Hospital. However I cannot condone what they done in relation to the disabled parking provision there. Now anybody with a Blue Badge has to pay to park, using a pay and display machine which is situated by the main entrance. For a start there is not enough disabled parking there anyway and then for people with limited mobility to have to walk backwards and forwards in order to put tickets on there cars, seems a bit ridiculous to me.
 

BigD

Well-Known Forumite
Is this the area in front of the Out patients area? What about the other car parks, Blue Badge holders could use these car parks for free quoting there badge number via the intercom at the exit barrier?
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
They've been doing that for a while at New Cross - they make you enter the registration number, so that a ticket can't be transferred. The machine is at the height for a wheelchair user and, in bright sunlight, I had to kneel on the footpath and shade the screen to have any chance of seeing what I was doing - luckily, it wasn't raining....

They're not too bothered, they just want your money.
 

Prawn cocktail

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Is this the area in front of the Out patients area? What about the other car parks, Blue Badge holders could use these car parks for free quoting there badge number via the intercom at the exit barrier?

Not anymore! Did that a few weeks ago and was told that i would have too pay.
 

Prawn cocktail

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They've been doing that for a while at New Cross - they make you enter the registration number, so that a ticket can't be transferred. The machine is at the height for a wheelchair user and, in bright sunlight, I had to kneel on the footpath and shade the screen to have any chance of seeing what I was doing - luckily, it wasn't raining....

They're not too bothered, they just want your money.
Had to go to New Cross the other day and the barriers on the carpark were broken, so they had a guy stood out there in the pouring rain, just to collect £2.50 off every driver. Hope he was getting paid a good whack for doing that, as he was soaked, then again I very much doubt it.
 

Noah

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Royal Stoke University Hospital, as it is now known, is pay & display. Up to 1 hour £1.60; 1-2 hours £2.60; 2-3 hours £3.60; 3-4 hours £5.20; 4-8 hours £6.20; 8-24 hours £8.20. Blue badge holders have to pay but get an extra hour. If you are immediate family of someone who is going to be in the hospital for three weeks or more you may get a free parking permit, not transferrable as it has the vehicle number on it. Finding any form of parking bay during daytime can be a nightmare, evenings and weekends are better.
 
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