Campaigners Fight To Abolish Parking Permits

Campaigners are calling on Glasgow City Council to scrap plans to introduce parking permits on streets near the new South Glasgow Hospital.

Residents are hitting out about proposals to charge locals £50 and businesses £700 in streets near the new site.

Lisa Devlin from the G51 Free Parking Group spoke to Clyde News Reporter Linda Sinclair ahead of a public meeting tonight.

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Glasgow City Council Statement:

"Glasgow City Council is currently developing parking controls on behalf of the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for the surrounding areas and in particular the residential neighbourhoods and main arterial roads in anticipation of the hospitals becoming operational. On-street parking controls was one of the measures identified during the Transport Assessment (commissioned by the NHS) designed to lessen the impact of the new hospital on the main and local road network. To achieve the conditions contained within the planning consent, on-street parking controls will be/need to be implemented in residential streets adjacent to the hospital. These parking controls are proposed to dissuade staff from potentially commuting by car to the area and parking all day on the nearby streets. If no parking controls are introduced along the affected roads, there is a high probability that these will be used for parking due to the high volume of traffic, particularly commuting hospital staff, that will be generated by the hospital. This could lead to indiscriminate parking, parked vehicles causing obstructions, increased traffic congestion and access issues."