Plans to improve the number plate recognition parking scheme at the Royal Bolton Hospital have been approved by the council. An automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) parking system is already in place for parking at much of the hospital, however, this will now be expanded to cover all 2,565 spaces at the trust site. The parking system is run by ParkingEye and iFM, who say they are looking to reduce the “amount of abuse” of parking spaces that they say currently occurs at the hospital site. Planning agent Jaden Fish said: “ParkingEye propose to expand on a car park management system on an existing car park owned by Bolton NHS Foundation Trust which utilises automatic number plate recognition cameras (ANPR) and associated signage to monitor the entrance and exit of vehicles within the specified car parks.