PERHAPS someone for the County Hospital could tell us why so much space around the new hospital, now that the old brick part has been demolished, is being landscaped at enormous expense into large sweeping roads, flower beds and smart paving when it is totally impossible for anyone to park?

The space alongside a road within the buildings (beside the corridor servicing the old huts) could be used for staff parking, thus reducing the haemorrhaging of staff.

Hundreds of appointments are lost by patients being unable to park.

Is this bureaucratic madness again, like insufficient beds and the building too weak to take a heliport on the roof, or is there some obscure long-term plan?

Terence Hutchins,

Stone Fern, Thruxton.