Will the hospital be able to cope?

Having read the proposals and plans in the Courier for 10,000 more houses, schools and “garden town” in the district, I noticed one glaring and important omission from this and that is the medical requirement for all the newcomers.

Warwick Hospital can hardly cope now, as anyone who attends on a regular medical attention basis will confirm. The car parking is saturation on site and you cannot park in the adjoining streets, which is quite right for the residents who have to live there.

The answer to all this is for the car park and hospital to go upward, with extra floors. Ten thousand new houses with an average of four residents means another 40,000 to the town, plus the 200 or more students in the flats opposite the station, and coming in elsewhere, adds to the list.

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Have the council officials/planners taken this into account and revealed the plans and cost for the extra medical requirements etc at Warwick Hospital when all this comes about?

Also the increase in the traffic congestion in the south of Leamington - ie High Street/Bath Street and so on. I think not.

Some of the councillors when I speak to them just smile, nod and seem to be on another planet.

Hopefully they will come down and address the problems which arose for the hospital when we have the extra population in the future. - Name and address supplied.