If they’d actually create an entrance to the car parks from the new fire station area people might take advantage of the “easier escape” and use the further away car parks. This seems to be the case now, as I’ve noticed people parking in Morrisons and walking toward the hospital even when the hospital car parks aren’t full yet!
Surely the old Brother site is still available for a car park – if it hasn’t already been grabbed by those housing developers who were seeking planning permission there. There are also cheaper “temporary” steel framed multistoreys which the likes of Tesco have used at busier stores – it all comes down to cost in the end.