Woking parking review 2023

There are a number of stages involved in the review and these are explained below. This parking review is now underway.

The current stage is: Approval

Introduction

Starting in April and continuing through May 2023 we assessed on-street parking concerns across the borough by carrying out site visits. These were concerns that have been brought to our attention largely by members of the public, the police, councillors and highway officers since the previous review took place. We assessed the requests based on road safety, accessibility, congestion, the possibility of displacing a problem and how many people have requested a change.

After completing all the site visits, we prepared drawings and a statement of reasons explaining our findings and recommendations.

Authorisation

We presented these drawings and the statement of reasons to the county councillors for Woking Borough. Each county councillor read, discussed and agreed with the parking engineer the proposals for their division. The agreed locations were prepared for advertising and consultation.

Advertisement and objections

The parking proposals authorised by the county councillors were then formally advertised and consulted on. The public consultation began on 24 August 2023 and ended on 21 September 2023. Thank you to everybody who took part in the consultation.

The statement of reasons and drawings of what has been advertised and consulted upon are available to view at the bottom of this page by County Councillor division.

Please note that any Woking town centre proposals will be displayed in the Goldsworth East and Horsell Village division.

Approval

All the feedback following the advertising stage has now been compiled into a report. The report has been distributed to councillors and the traffic enforcement and parking team manager to read. Together they have read the report and have made decisions on how to proceed at each location, taking the feedback submitted during the consultation into account.

The final recommendations are now available to read in the 'decisions report', which is published below on this web page. Everybody who participated in the consultation and gave an e-mail address will now be notified to let them know the outcome. Measuring and marking out at each location we are proceeding with will take place.

Implementation

Then works orders will be raised with our lining and signing contractors to install the agreed changes.

A final traffic regulation order (TRO) will then be made and published. This will make all the changes made in the parking review legally enforceable by civil enforcement officers.

Files available to download