has been told by city planners it must try harder to solve the parking chaos which blights nearby streets.
The city council's planning committee was also scathing of an official 'Hospital Travel Plan' which it said failed to offer solutions to parking problems and asked for it to be redrawn.
The plan was ordered in December 2013 after the hospital in Selly Oak was told to satisfy the committee it was taking action to deal with the problems before it could fully occupy the translational medicine facility.
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At the time residents, Some had resorted to direct action - scrawling messages like 'idiot' on badly parked cars (below).
But the hospital's plan merely announced it had managed to get ten per cent more staff to leave their cars at home in favour of buses, trains and bikes.
Coun Barry Henley (Lab Brandwood) said: "The situation is intolerable for people who live near the hospital and difficult for people who work there."
He said that, while the travel plan had targets for staff ditching cars, it did not say how this would be achieved.
"It is just a get out of jail free card for the hospital," he added, suggesting the minimum had been done to comply with planning regulations.
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His colleague Coun John Alden (Con Harbone) said it was unrealistic to expect visitors to leave their cars behind.
He added: "You are not going to take a sick relative to hospital on the crossbar of your bike or to a rail station which is hundreds of yards from the hospital. They are going to go by car or taxi."
And Coun Peter Douglas Osborn pointed out that staff working night shifts had little access to public transport alternatives.
"We have seen a 25 per cent increase in patients, a 30 per cent increase in staff, they are going to park somewhere," he said.
Expansion of the QE Hospital and the University of Birmingham, the impending relocation of the Children's Hospital to the area and the development of medical research facilities nearby are all placing further pressure on roads and parking.
In 2013, the Edgbaston Residents' Association, backed by councillors, called for a major review of transport and parking in the area.