Car parking update
Whilst acknowledging limitations in our car parking provision given our city centre location and the ongoing capital investment projects across campus, every effort is being made to maximise access for staff to university and council car parking facilities.
In response to feedback from staff, via the Staff Survey and other channels, about the issues encountered with car parking over the past few months, please find an update on car parking arrangements and information:-
Car park space Information
Full details of available car parking spaces are available on the car park update page on the intranet http://www.liv.ac.uk/facilities-management/travel_plan/ and the latest information about travel and transport disruption can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/facilities-management/travel_plan/travelandtransportdisruptions/
Car share
The Foundation Building will be the designated car share car park, replacing the Hart Building car park. Those staff who currently car share will be notified shortly and their swipe cards will be updated to provide access. Staff wishing to join the car share scheme should visit the following link for more information https://livshare.liv.ac.uk/
Leahurst travel
The Hart Building car park will be reserved for those staff who need to travel between the main campus and Leahurst during their normal working day. Arrangements for staff who need access to this car park will be agreed between the School of Veterinary Sciences and Vehicle parking in FM.
Designated car park for carers:
Mount Pleasant Car Park (next to 126 Mount Pleasant, opposite the entrance to the Catholic Cathedral) will be reserved solely for those people who have ‘carer’ status and display a carer parking permit. Arrangements for who will be eligible to apply and how this will be managed are currently being reviewed.
Bedford House car park
Following a risk assessment on the significant traffic disruption that has recently been experienced, Bedford House car park (Cambridge Street) will revert to a standard University car park open to staff 24 hours a day, and to visitors on a restricted basis of 17.30pm – 07.30am, from Monday 17 March.
Mount Pleasant City Council multi-storey car park
60 people have now taken up available subsidised car parking at the Mount Pleasant City Council multi-storey car park on Brownlow Hill. Staff can apply for a reserved parking space at preferential rates by obtaining a permit on the following link vehicleparking@liv.ac.uk
Further developments on travel and car parking
The University is making every effort to provide staff as much information as possible about car parking availability. A travel planner is currently being appointed and an independent consultant, Mott MacDonald, has been engaged to review the travel strategy for the University. This study will be completed by the end of April.
In the meantime, please find further information about the university’s current travel plan http://www.liv.ac.uk/facilities-management/travel_plan/ and Frequently Asked Questions https://www.liv.ac.uk/intranet/facilities-management/faqs/ available on the intranet.
Hello,
Will you be providing additional car parking spaces for staff members who usually park in the Mount Pleasant car park which is soon to reserved for carers only?
The proposals detailed above should improve the current situation, however for car sharing to be viewed as anything more than a token gesture, more spaces than the 25 being offered in the Foundation Building need to be made available. Could the scheme not be extended to the Sports Centre car park as well ? Surely everybody willing to share should be granted a space as this will reduce the number of cars on campus ?
As the reallocation of spaces was meant to be revisited in December, rather than simply renewing the access for those people who have already had some benefit from the scheme, can’t the move to the Foundation building be treated as a fresh start ? Those people who have been on the waiting list for a space for a considerable length of time may then have some hope that they will actually receive one.
On returning from lunch yesterday, a contractors van was parked in the yellow box at the entrance to the Sports Centre car park. Having reported this to vehicle parking I was told security would have given the contractor permission to park there to carry out their work. Surely these spaces have been marked as no parking for a reason ? Seeing these vans being allowed to park illegally must be extremely infuriating for the members of staff who invest a significant amount of time searching for a legal space to park in.