A few months back I wrote about my frustration that the Conservative Executive running Woking Borough Council had declined to double the number of parent and child parking spaced in the council operated car parks in the town centre, from the existing 8 to 16, following a recommendation from the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.  Since […]

Multiple requests to clean up the state of the Queen’s Road car park seem to have been going on so long that I think they are almost at the stage of being worth called a saga.  This saga has involved many emails, photos and site visits, but finally the litter is being cleared more frequently, […]

At the Full Council meeting of Woking Borough Council on Thursday 9th December 2010, the fees and charges for next year were agreed.  These were recommended to Council by the Conservative Executive. The decision by the Conservative Executive to reject the recommendation by Lib-dem members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to keep the 30 […]

My earlier posts about off street car parking charges are now slightly out of date as these proposals have now been noted by the executive and will be considered for the next municipal year.  It is a little disappointing that we do not know the outcome of this process yet, but I am glad that […]

Following my post in August on Car Parking being looked at by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, the results of the  survey from the summer are available here – Car Parking Survey Results. At the committee meeting on Monday 20th September to discuss the outcomes from the first meeting on this issue the following proposals […]

As part of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s work on town centre car park parking charges, I visited the blue car park in the Peacocks Centre Sunday afternoon (8th August 2010) to ask visitors to the car park to complete a survey on car park charges.  There were many interesting answers, some of which I […]

Operation Drive Smart is a joint Surrey County Council and Surrey police initiative focusing on:- Speeding Using a hand-held mobile phone whilst driving Bad or dangerous parking Tailgating or aggressive driving Illegal off-road riding and driving Operation Drive Smart has been taking place in Knaphill in a variety of ways including a Police operation tackles […]

Woking Borough Council has just announced a new rate of parking for people parking all day.  Reducing the price from £8 to £5 in all town centre car parks.  This is good news, but is it enough?  To see the press release click here WBC car parking charges press release   However, it seems to […]