Look: How huge city centre multi-storey car park has taken shape
It is really taking shape since our last update in March
Laura HartleySenior Reporter
A huge city centre car park is shooting up into the city's skyline as work progresses to complete it.
Salt Lane surface car park closed last year for work to begin on the new 600 space multi-storey building.
Things are now really taking shape as the glass staircase can now be seen, with the car park levels and stairs in place.
Builders are still working on-site but significant progress has been made over the summer.
Progress on Salt Lane multi-storey car park
The car park is being built to support visitors to the city's new £37 million water park, due to open in spring 2019, and is already dominating the skyline behind Fords Hospital.
It will have 600 spaces for drivers over six floors and will also include charging spaces for electric cars.
It has previously been reported the car park will be ready for the opening of the new water park, and while parts of the leisure centre are already open, the water park section is yet to open its doors to the public.
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Costing taxpayers more
Before a single brick was laid, the project had already been thrown a curveball.
CoventryLive revealed last year the project was going to set taxpayers back £1million than first thought.
It had originally been forecast to cost £10.7million to build but has jumped to £11.7million.
The extra cost in building the car park - which Telegraph readers compared to a prison when the first images of how it would look were released - is all down to moving BT cables.
A spokesman for Coventry City Council said at the time: "The increase in costs is largely down to a higher than anticipated cost in relocating a fibre optic cable for BT and additional public realm works."
Impressions of the new Salt Lane multi-storey car park
'Sympathetic' to nearby historic hospital
Drivers will enter off Salt Lane and leave by Greyfriars Lane, opposite the new water park, with pedestrian entrances positioned to serve that and Broadgate.
The building has been designed so it is sympathetic to the nearby historic Fords Hospital.
The car park will feature barriers that operate through automatic number plate recognition (ANPR).