Colleagues have until Monday, June 5 to submit their application for new parking permits.

We are asking all car parking permit holders to reapply and these will be considered under new criteria to achieve a fairer distribution of permits.

These new considerations include: home to work distance must be more than 1.5 miles; family demands as part of the work/life balance and out of hours/on call staff will be given priority Colleagues at CRH – who work Mon-Fri 0800-1800 - will be offered a permit that will allow them to park on the Eureka site and utilise the Trust Park and Ride scheme.

This will create up to 80 additional parking spaces at the CRH site. The permit request form can be found on the intranet.

The form should be completed and returned via e mail to car.parking@cht.nhs.uk or by internal post to: The Travel Dept, HRI.

All completed applications need to be returned no later than Friday, 5 June 2015. The cost is £22 and this will commence when the new permit has been issued.

This keeps us in line with other Trusts and enables us to still be able to offer value on-site parking for colleagues. (For Eureka permit holders it remains at £16). The part-time rate will remain the same at £11.

Permits will no longer be allocated to specific designated areas. All general permit holders will be able to park in all staff designated areas.

We are also introducing a new priority rating for senior clinical colleagues who need to be at both sites to deliver care to our patients. To improve priority capacity at CRH, 10 extra spaces will be provided for priority permit holders. This will ensure that cross-site colleagues can easily access the sites to ensure they deliver care to our patients. If you have questions email: car.parking@cht.nhs.uk