SIR – Re: Parking for the university. Recent publicity about parking problems in St John’s suggests to me that there could be a commonsense solution by creating a multi-storey car on the vacant vegetable market site in Hylton Road.
This, together with the scrap yard behind, could provide substantial parking space to serve both university campuses and visitors to the city, the cricket ground and the racecourse.
If students can afford cars and insist on driving to lectures I’m sure they could plan their journey to allow for the five-10 minutes it would take to walk over Sabrina Bridge to the city or up Henwick/Oldbury Road to the St John’s campus, without fear of upsetting residents by parking on pavements or blocking residential streets.
This site would not overlook any residential area, would be masked by the railway viaduct and would utilise an area of land left derelict for 20 or so years.
Should there be a flood the ground floor might not be useable but the upper two or three floors would, if access is planned correctly.
Looking to the future, might it be worth considering a monorail system, adjacent to the viaduct, linking the city with the three campuses.
TONY HARRIS
Worcester
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