New car park for Royal Oldham Hospital staff

New car park for Royal Oldham Hospital staff

Development of a new car park, which is set to be completed by June 2015, at the Royal Oldham Hospital has started.

The car park will remove the need for some hospital staff to park in the car park at Oldham Athletic Football Club, where the Trust has a lease agreement in place.

The car park will have 560  spaces for use by hospital staff and those that travel to the hospital on business from the Trust’s other hospitals. As well as being located a lot closer to the hospital, the car park will have CCTV monitoring and a controlled pedestrian entrance, allowing access for staff 24 hours a day seven days a week.

Additional security features include security fencing around the car park, a barrier control system, help stations for use in emergency situations and improved lighting to increase visibility at night time and in the early mornings.

During the construction phase of the project, sections of two non-highway tracks will have to be closed to vehicles from 10 November 2014. Those affected are Westhulme Avenue, which is an un-adopted track, and an un-named path accessed from Westhulme Street, that runs above the park.

Public and patient car parking at the hospital will not be affected by this development; this is designated by green signage. Until the new car park is completed some staff will continue to park in the Oldham Athletic FC car park.