IF IT came down to it - paying for the convenience of a car park or walking up a hill to the Warwick Hospital - which would you prefer?

Parking issues in Warwick were again raised at council's engineering services meeting yesterday, with a number of interesting solutions passed around.

Cr Jo McNally raised the dilemma during general business, saying she had had more reports of unhappy visitors to Warwick Hospital and Glennie Heights School having to play cat and mouse for a car park.

Warwick Hospital car parking has long been a bugbear for visitors and staff and last made headlines when 16 car parks were painted to cater for increasing demand.

Some of the ideas bandied about by councillors yesterday included introducing paid parking or having regulated parks akin to Warwick's CBD.

Engineering Services director Peter See hinted paid parking might not be such an outrageous option, pointing out it was the direction other areas were taking.

"Chermside and Carindale Shopping Centres are moving towards that option," he told the meeting.

Mr See added many of the parking problems were from lazy drivers.

"Everywhere else people have to walk miles to get anywhere," he said.

"People want the car park right outside the school gate or shopping centre. Ultimately, if people get out and walk 100 metres, it's good for the health and doesn't take long."

He said the council could make the hospital area a regulated zone and enforce it, as well as further down Williams St, but added it "wouldn't be very popular".

When asked by Cr Bartley whether council should provide more parks at the hospital, Mr See said it wasn't council's obligation, but the State Government's.

Cr Denise Ingram said visitors would pay up to $16 each day to park at hospitals in Sydney or even Toowoomba, and that was an option.

Cr Ross Bartley said parking at the hospital was made harder because it was on top of a hill, and some people might find it too hard to walk up.

Cr McNally said a possible solution could be to take another slice out of Australiana Park to use for parking.

Mayor Ron Bellingham read out motion 75 of the Local Government Association of Queensland's (LGAQ) guidelines, which states the "State Government should provide 100% subsidies to councils for State Government sites".

"(The fact the State Government should provide parking facilities for its sites) comes up year after year but nothing happens," he said.

"LGAQ has admitted that is their policy but they haven't gotten there yet. "Council purchasing land (from the adjacent park) to construct car parks doesn't seem to make a lot of sense."

Cr Pennisi said the planning scheme needed to be revised as "all (parking) was intertwined". Councillors moved to discuss parking more thoroughly at a future meeting with Mr See.