PLANNING permission has been submitted to increase the number of car parking spaces at Scotland's newest hospital to nearly 4,000.
The £842 million super-hospital in Glasgow, known as the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, has already received permission to build a temporary car park with more than 500 spaces to plug a shortfall which had led to complaints from nurses' union, RCN Scotland.
There are currently just over 3,132 slots available at the site for both staff and visitors, although the total headcount for employees is more than 10,000.
If approved, the plans now lodged with Glasgow City Council will see that increase to 3,887 by August 2016.
The newly extended car park will be created by decommissioning and demolishing three existing buildings on the Govan site, following the opening of replacement facilities.
Hospital management want to increase capacity further to 4,000 spaces, with further planning being carried out to identify potential new parking areas.
A spokesman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: "These additional new spaces are linked to the demolition of old accommodation which can be undertaken now staff and patients have transferred to the new hospital.
"In addition to existing spaces, approximately 75 buses an hour will service the hospital with the majority of them stopping at Arrival Square outside the hospitals’ front doors."
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