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Woking parking review 2025

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There are a number of stages involved in the review, as shown in the list above. We are currently at the implementation stage.

Introduction

We began looking at on-street parking concerns across the borough by carrying out site assessments during September and October of 2024. The sites we assessed were locations of concern that have been brought to our attention largely by members of the public, councillors and highway officers since the previous parking review took place. We assessed the requests based on road safety, accessibility, congestion and the possibility of displacing a problem elsewhere and how many people have requested a change. We then prepared drawings and a statement of reasons showing and explaining our findings and recommendations.

Authorisation

We then presented these drawings, and the statement of reasons to the county councillors for Woking Borough. Each county councillor reviewed the proposals for their division with the parking engineer. They then agreed on the locations to take forward for formal advertising.

Advertising and objections

Formal advertising of the proposals started on Thursday 4 June 2026 and finished on Friday 3 July 2026. Street notices were put up at each location where a change to existing or new parking controls were being proposed. Properties fronting the sites where a change was proposed, received hand delivered letters. A public notice was published in local newspapers.

Below on this page you can still read the Statement of Reasons for this parking review, and view all the drawings of the proposed changes that have been advertised.

Thank you to everybody who submitted a response.

Approval

All the feedback received following the formal advertising period was then separated out by county councillor division and then by individual proposal, and complied into a report. The parking engineer made a recommendation on how to proceed at each location, taking the feedback submitted into account along with the original reasons for proposing the chance. The report when then distributed and discussed with county councillors and the Traffic Enforcement and Parking Team Manager. They either agreed with the parking engineers recommendation or make their own decision on how to proceed.

Public feedback can result in a proposal being dropped completely or a reduced scheme being installed. It is not possible to enlarge a scheme beyond what has been formally advertised. If no responses or objections are received for an individual proposal, it will proceed and be implemented as advertised.

The final Decisions Report has now been published below on this web page. The report summarises the feedback anonymously if there was any, and states the final decision with an explanation where necessary.

Implementation

Each location we are proceeding with is in the process of being revisited, measured and marked out in preparation for the new parking schemes to be installed. Orders for lining and signing works are being raised and placed with contractors.

A final Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) will then be made and published. This will make all the changes that have been made in the parking review legally enforceable.

This has been the last parking review of the Woking Borough undertaken by Surrey County Council. We are continuing to accept requests for changes to parking restrictions as normal. From 1 April 2027, responsibility for parking reviews will transfer to the new West Surrey unitary council, along with all other highway functions. We will publish a timetable for new parking reviews, taking place after this date, in due course.

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