From Danny McMeechan, Ventnor: 
I WISH to bring to readers’ attention the practices of APCOA, which manages car parking at to St Mary’s Hospital.
I e-mailed them a number of times and queried when charging commenced after entering the car park. 
I was prompted to do so after it took me 10-15 minutes to find/wait for a parking space.
I finally received a response stating there was a 15-minute grace period to allow you to find a space before the charge period commenced.
However, this was not correct, as when I entered the car park on June 20 at 9.28am, that was when the charge commenced.
At busy times, visitors could spend up to ten minutes looking for a space, so I am urging the hospital authorities to take this up with APCOA.