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Awkward EV charging bay layout
This car park was in a central spot with lots around it. While it had quite a good amount of accessible parking space and it was easy to travel between the car park and street level, the EV charging bays weren't very accessible. That is why I've rated this just average rather than good. If you were just looking for an accessible parking space, this is a good option, but the charging connectors have a difficult layout, especially for a wheelchair user like me.
There was a bank of two lifts that travelled between street-level and the floors of the car park. The pedestrian entrance had an automatic sliding door that led into the lift lobby and there were also payment machines here.
According to the website, this car park has a total of 554 parking spaces, including 30 accessible parking spaces and eight EV charging bays. It has a height restriction of 2.10 metres and is open 24/7. It’s a paid car park.
There were accessible parking spaces on multiple floors that I went to. Some of the doors between the lift lobby and the parking bays were not automatic.
The EV charging bays were identified with blue signs above the bays and were also painted with a charging symbol on the bay itself. Similarly, the accessible parking spaces had signs signs with a wheelchair symbol and also had a wheelchair symbol painted inside the bay.
The EV charging points were all Type 2, 22kW chargers. They didn’t have cables, so you would need to have your own with you to charge here. The charging points were a little bit high and a bollard had been placed in front of them. Because of the bollard and the connector was mounted at the back of the space, it would require me to leave enough space behind the parked vehicle to get my wheelchair between the vehicle and the charging point. The spaces also didn’t seem to have the same amount of space as an accessible parking space so if they were very busy it could be too difficult to park here for someone that needs the extra space around the car, like myself. The bollard made it awkward to interact with the charging connector from my wheelchair.
This car park was in a central spot with lots around it. While it had quite a good amount of accessible parking space and it was easy to travel between the car park and street level, the EV charging bays weren't very accessible. That is why I've rated this just average rather than good. If you were just looking for an accessible parking space, this is a good option, but the charging connectors have a difficult layout, especially for a wheelchair user like me.
There was a bank of two lifts that travelled between street-level and the floors of the car park. The pedestrian entrance had an automatic sliding door that led into the lift lobby and there were also payment machines here.
According to the website, this car park has a total of 554 parking spaces, including 30 accessible parking spaces and eight EV charging bays. It has a height restriction of 2.10 metres and is open 24/7. It’s a paid car park.
There were accessible parking spaces on multiple floors that I went to. Some of the doors between the lift lobby and the parking bays were not automatic.
The EV charging bays were identified with blue signs above the bays and were also painted with a charging symbol on the bay itself. Similarly, the accessible parking spaces had signs signs with a wheelchair symbol and also had a wheelchair symbol painted inside the bay.
The EV charging points were all Type 2, 22kW chargers. They didn’t have cables, so you would need to have your own with you to charge here. The charging points were a little bit high and a bollard had been placed in front of them. Because of the bollard and the connector was mounted at the back of the space, it would require me to leave enough space behind the parked vehicle to get my wheelchair between the vehicle and the charging point. The spaces also didn’t seem to have the same amount of space as an accessible parking space so if they were very busy it could be too difficult to park here for someone that needs the extra space around the car, like myself. The bollard made it awkward to interact with the charging connector from my wheelchair.
