COLCHESTER Hospital has warned visitors to allow more time to park there this weekend.

Resurfacing works to improve some of the car parks on the site and make parking better for patients and visitors start at 5pm on Friday and will be complete on Sunday.

This will lead to a slight reduction in the number of parking spaces available in the first section of the main visitor car park.

The North Lodge entrance from Turner Road to the Primary Care Centre will also be resurfaced.

David Cohen, capital project manager at Colchester Hospital, said: “We appreciate while we work to improve the car parks on the main hospital site and at the PCC entrance it may cause some inconvenience for our patients and visitors.

"We apologise in advance and thank you for your patience, but we hope the long term benefits of making the car parks better will make a difference to people coming to the hospital.

"We hope by doing the work over the weekend, rather than at a peak time, we can keep disruption to a minimum. Blue Badge spaces will be unaffected during daytime hours.”

The North Lodge and PCC entrances will be closed overnight on Friday from 10pm until 6am Saturday, but if you need to get to the PCC the emergency vehicle access road off Turner Road will be open.