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Community Safety Plan

Woking Borough Council’s Community Safety Team is keen to hear from residents, businesses and stakeholders about what they think are the most important crime and safety issues that affect communities across the borough. Deadline: Monday 28 February 2022

On 19 January 2022, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced that the measures put in place under Plan B in England will be lifted.  

This means:

Our telephone system will unavailable this weekend for maintenance purposes. The general 01483 755 855 number will be affected from 8am on Saturday 22 January until 5pm on Sunday 23 January.

During this time, residents can report emergencies on 03003 690 582.

The system maintenance may also affect payments made by phone. Residents experiencing any difficulties making payments, should retry after 10 minutes.

Woking Borough Council has secured further government funding to support businesses severely affected by the spread of the Omicron variant. The Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant is a scheme to support hospitality, leisure and accommodation businesses who have had their trading impacted by the recent surge in COVID cases because of the Omicron variant.

The Omicron Hospitality and Leisure grant scheme payment is a one-off payment of up £6,000 which is applicable to:

Planned essential repair work to the public underpass at Woking Railway Station is due to begin at the end of January.

The works, carried out by Woking Borough Council in partnership with Network Rail and South Western Railways, mean it is necessary to close the underpass from Monday 24 January 2022 for eight weeks.

Works include replacing damaged and loose stairs, in addition to general maintenance and improvements to the underpass.

An independent review into Woking Borough Council’s financial position has said that the council is in a good position overall and highlighted areas of improvement already being worked on.

The independent report, which provides a detailed assessment of the council’s assets, liabilities and accounting position, was commissioned following agreement of the medium term financial strategy by the council’s Executive and a notice of motion agreed by Council at its meeting on 27 July 2021.

The Planning Inspectorate has allowed the appeal by developer, Goldsworth Road Development LLP, regarding its planning application for the land to the north and south of Goldsworth Road, Woking (appeal ref: APP/A3655/W/21/3276474). This means that planning permission has been granted for the ‘EcoWorld’ development.

Tyler Panton has been named Woking’s 2021 Sports Personality of the Year for his rapid progression on the athletics track.

The annual Sport Woking Awards recognise the achievements of Woking’s sporting elite and celebrate those involved in helping others to achieve their personal best.

Well on his way to becoming a world-class athlete, Tyler Panton, a member of Woking Athletics Club, regularly records 100m and 200m sprint times of 10.6 seconds and 21.5 seconds respectively.

There are a number of ways you can recycle your Christmas tree.

Trees can be taken to the Martyrs Lane community recycling centre or to a local garden centre that offers a recycling option. Please check with the garden centre before making your trip.

In addition to Martyrs Lane community recycling centre you can drop off your tree at one of the four locations shown below between Wednesday 5 and Sunday 16 January 2022. Signage will be in place at each location.