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I don't know how the "lottery" allocation system was run but there are plenty of examples of persons getting car parking nearby who: a) are currently still working at the old DRI b) live within walking distance and have no dependants c)have applied for a permit, got the Manor carpark but have not actually passed their driving tests yet! If the system appeared to treat all on their actual requirments I could understand it but I'm afraid this can be labelled simply as another failed project.
It gets worse

As a non NHS employee with an outsider perspective, I am appalled and disgusted with the way the Hospital staff are being treated. When will Derby city Council (and other councils) realise that until public transport is seriously improved, these so called half baked, hair brained ‘green travel’ ideas are a farce. The Hospital staff are expected to provide essential emergency care when they have to park 3 miles away, and also expected to pay for the privilege? What a joke, what’s next overflow patient hospital parking in Alvaston? How long before we have a headline that a patient was neglected or worse died because essential emergency staff could not respond on time due the parking fiasco. Peoples lives are more important than any so called 'CO2' target, Derby Council need to take their head of the sand, stop hiding behind dodgy ‘green’ policies as an excuse to fail to deliver, and get in the real world. Give these essential workers somewhere to park or improve public transport to the Hospital (for patients and workers alike), but to do neither is both an insult and an outrage against some of Derby’s most valued workers.
David

Build a multistory car park on the Manor Car Park - simple.
Julie Ashton

the hospital knew the situation that was coming and have really done very little about it, staff who have parked at the city have had there spaces taken off them and are now going to be driving past the hospital to go three miles down the road into derby to have to catch a bus to come back this is going to add to the traffic not make things any better, they say they wont to help ease the traffic sorry but this is going to make it much worse
fiona

All staff are committed to careing for all people unwell in any way. Commitment to the care of others is over 100%. so why are the staff not being helped to do there job yet again. Please for once I would be nice if management, local council. Etc would help workers (as some staff at unpaid volenters aswell as many staff overworking hours because they care ).whom are commit to caring for others to do there Job without stress off worries regarding parking and the cost. People forget that staff pay between £11 & £38 to park at Hosp. Aswell as petrol to get there. So someone please think of the the staff whom care for others and have to pay to care and get to work. Nurses etc can't claim parking on expence like mp's , concilers etc. Hospitals ground staff that do the hand on care are already overworked , understaff & cry some days after a shift because the stress of the job and caring so so much for others. So help please. Help people who care for once. There is no profit in caring it's done from the heart. X
Linda. Derby

To anyone with any intelligence in the real world, this is a complete nonsense. It is the usual political correctness that Derby City Council is renowned for. With any new development, the planners just refuse to allow adequate parking - it's just their standard policy. And it needs some brave Councillors to stand up to them and overturn it. Here would be a real test: since the Council are considering building new purpose-built offices, let them site them outside of the City Centre and off the normal public transport routes and let's see how much parking they provide for their own staff. Oh and then let's offer them parking permits in the Westfield as an alternative and see what they think.Please Derby City sort this out before you make us all a laughing stock.
Neil

It is an absolute joke and one that should have been planned a decade ago when the hospital was being thought of. They seriously expect to tempt people out of their cars who work shifts and have kids by putting a brand new hospital in an inaccessible suburb of Derby? This aside, the allocation and criteria for the allocation of permits has been nothing short of Randomly generated... with 9-5 office workers with no family commitments getting City parking, and those who work until 9/10pm or have picked jobs to specifically allow them to sort their kids out first then get to work being mucked about and dumped on.Where else would you be expected to park 3 miles away from your place of work and catch a bus? I also fear that the link bus will be sadly inadequate as the service is frequently overcrowded at peak times now, with less than 50% of the services based at the City. The powers that be have missed the boat big time in making sure MORE if not ALL staff have the chance to drive to where they work. And as for the deal with the council, they only want to use that land for park and ride so they can say "we have park and ride so lets congestion charge" despite the fierce opposition. There are signs for park and ride at the moment on the A38 on the way into Derby, yet the Westfield Rooftop carpark is rarely full. So it begs the question is it really needed?As others have said, no one expected Toyota or Rolls Royce to park miles away and bus themselves in? So why should people who contribute to saving and improving the lives of Derby Citizens be penalised?
Paul

Having picked up my car parking allocation today and being allocated a pass at the Manor car park( I am a blue badge holder!) I still cannot help but feel outraged on behalf of my collegues. There seems to be absolutely no consistant criteria that thess spaces have been allocated. Some collegues who actually walk to the hospital from home and have no child care issues and do not work shifts,have been allocated the Manor car park.Others that live in the Burton outskirts, Ticknall, Hilton with major childcare problems have been allocated Westfield.NOT only have these nurses recently been down graded but now face a longer working day ,higher childcare costs AND an increase in either public transport costs or an increase in car parking charges. I have not heard of a manager being allocated a space at the DRI!My collegues and I try to provide a service for patients from 8am until 4pm.This means that some of my collegues would have to get up at 5am and would not return home until 6pm at the earliest each day. I cannot see how they/we can provide quality patient care being this exhausted!
Outraged!

This just proves what a complete disaster closing the DRI will be for 75% of people in Derby, can you imagine trying to get to A&E at the new hospital through rush hour traffic for the majority of people?
Chris Brown

Its an absolute farce that the staff are expected to park 3 miles away from work. My daughter lives in Burton, she finishes work at the city hospital at 5pm, and has to pick her 9 years old son up at the after school club by 6pm at the very latest. They have allocated her a parking space at the westfield centre, so by the time she leaves work, gets the bus to westfield, ploughs back through the evening traffic, past the city hospital to the A38, she physically cannot be back at the school to collect my grandson on time! As a single mum as well, she cannot really afford the £33 they intend to charge her for the pleasure of this 3 mile hike morning and evening. So come on you executives, get your act together, forget meeting all the government targets, and for once think about your hard working staff. Or better still, relinquish your on site parking spaces, and let the hard working staff, especially the nurses etc. who work shifts have your cosy spaces.
cynthia waterson

This will also cause chaos in the street around the hospital. There already is a problem on Chain Lane, Muirfield Drive and Cordon Avenue, Mickleover where cars are parked for the day and at peak times (rush hour traffic) it is now very hard to get past these cars and when the rest of the staff move to the City it will be even harder.
Sandra Tidmarsh