WARRINGTON Hospital has submitted plans to turn a Portakabin into an 18-bed emergency winter ward.
Proposals state the unit will contain an office, a kitchen, clean and dirty utility rooms, toilets and shower facilities as well as staff toilets and a nurses station.
The temporary building will be located to the north west of the hospital site nextt to the main hospital entrance and is to be connected to an existing hospital corridor via a purpose-built six metre link corridor.
However, this area currently serves as a car park and so the cabin would take up 30 car parking spaces reducing the number of spaces to 1,470 from 1,500.
The unit is on hire for a period of 26 weeks but the trust wants to apply for temporary planning permission for a period of one-year if the ward is still required.
To combat the loss of car parking spaces, the trust is undertaking further talks around the offsite spaces they currently rent.
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The hospital currently has 78 spaces on Basfords at the back of the site and 58 spaces on Wellfield Street to the front of the site.
These spaces are to be fully utilised as over spill parking.
The trust is also currently in negotiation with an existing offsite car parking contractor for an additional 50 spaces for staff to park and walk to help to ease pressures.
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