Public Transport and Parking
Sufficient road and transport infrastructure to support the development of a major hospital site is one of the essential site selection criteria used to shortlist the three sites. Road and transport infrastructure will continue to be very much at the forefront of our considerations for the new Monklands.
Public Transport (Bus Services)
We have a duty to ensure that bus services to the new location would be at least as good as those to the current hospital site.
Public transport infrastructure will be at the heart of any new development and we will work closely with partners like North Lanarkshire Council, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and Transport Scotland to ensure necessary improvements to public transport are part of the overall project.
Plenty of Parking
The new hospital is planned to have a large surface parking area and a multi-storey car park, providing around 2100 parking spaces in total – double the capacity at the existing University Hospital Monklands.
The site will have appropriate provision of accessible (blue badge) parking. This will predominantly be located at the car park near the main entrance, with additional spaces provided at the emergency department and across the site. There will also be dedicated parking for some patient groups such as outpatient dialysis and cancer care and further spaces at the proposed nursery. Any proposals for dedicated staff parking will be decided later in the project through development of a Parking Management Strategy. Suitable provision of electric vehicle charging points will also be determined at a later stage in consultation with the local authority.