Construction work begins on hospital £4.4m multi-storey car park

Work has begun on the construction of a new £4.4 multi-storey car park at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry.

The Western Health and Social Care Trust has confirmed the contract has been awarded to McLaughlin and Harvey Ltd.

The development will be three storeys high and will provide 314 spaces, 293 of which will within the multi storey car park and 21 in a ground level car park.

Construction work is due to be completed by the end of August next year.

The project is part of the new £73 million North Wing development at the hospital which will deliver six new inpatient ward areas and a new main entrance.

The location for the new multi storey building is the current outpatients' car park area of the hospital.

Additional parking spaces is being provided in other areas of the hospital site to replace the spaces lost by the closure of the outpatients' car park.

Elaine Way, Western Trust chief executive, said when complete the new facility would enable work to commence on a 'major upgrade of accommodation' for all of the services currently located in the 50 year old tower block.