ON BEHALF of our members and disabled people generally let me express our joy to see common sense prevail in that York NHS Trust is applying for planning permission for a two-storey car park. It has been needed for years.

I regularly fetch patients to York District Hospital and find the parking areas full - particularly the disabled section.

I have had to buy a mobile phone which I often have to use when I cannot find a parking space and therefore have to find somewhere outside the hospital grounds.

When my patient is ready for home they have to phone me so that I can re-enter the hospital grounds.

This hospital is for York and District, not solely for York people and therefore some of us have to travel some miles.

Would Anna Semlyen care to travel 20 or so miles on her bicycle if she was ill enough to require hospital treatment?

If there were more parking places drivers would not emit as much pollution into the air by driving around looking for somewhere to park.

R D Stubbs,

Secretary/treasurer,

Selby British Diabetic Association, Main Road,

Hambleton, Selby.

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