More than 3,000 people have signed up to a Coventry Telegraph campaign calling for car parking charges for disabled people to be scrapped at the city’s new superhospital.

Charges of up to £9 a day have been introduced for people visiting University Hospital at Walsgrave, but the Telegraph is calling on hospital managers to make parking for the disabled free.

Following the launch of the campaign a week ago, bosses at the hospital have agreed to ask the car park providers to think about making disabled parking free, but the paper says that until it has been given a firm answer the campaign will continue.

Telegraph editor Alan Kirby said: “There has been an overwhelming response to this campaign and the petitions keep on flooding in.

“We will not let up until these unfair and unjust charges are scrapped.”

Since the launch of the campaign petitions have been pouring into the Telegraph’s offices, and hundreds of readers have also visited its offices in person to sign up to the campaign.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust had said it was bound by a contract with the private finance companies which built the hospital to charge for every parking space, even disabled spots, but it has now agreed to ask the company responsible for the car park if it could be persuaded to make the spaces free.