Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document

The Council has produced new parking standards for development in the Borough, which came into effect on the 27th of July 2006. This is in the form of a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) and forms part of the Council's Local Development Framework.

The parking standards have been developed to be consistent with national and regional policies and are maximum standards. This means that there is no minimum parking requirement for developments and applicants can propose to provide less parking than the standard, but more parking will generally not be permitted.

A key feature of the new standards is that there is a more restrictive standard applied to sites within 1250m of Woking Station in reflection of the greater accessibility these sites have to public transport.

A draft of the Parking Standards SPD was made available for public consultation from the 27th January to 10th March 2006.

The results of the public consultation have been used to produce the final Parking Standards SPD. The statutory adoption notice lists the places where the SPD can be viewed.

If you would like more information please either email planningpolicy@woking.gov.uk or call the Planning Policy team on 01483 743871.