Policy information sourced from the Woking Development Management Policies Development Plan Document (DPD)

DM16: Servicing development

The Council will require servicing facilities to be well designed, built to accommodate the demands of new development and sensitively integrated into the development and the surrounding townscape and streetscape. In particular, servicing activities should not give rise to traffic congestion, conflict with pedestrians, or other road users, or be detrimental to residential amenity.

To deliver this the Council will:

  1. require sufficient on-site servicing space to accommodate the number and type of vehicles likely to be generated and to ensure that this can take place without manoeuvring on the highway;
  2. require sufficient information for all sites with on-site servicing space that will control the hours of servicing, including detail on how vehicles will be managed, and controls on the types and sizes of vehicles to ensure they are appropriate to the local area and are environmentally acceptable;
  3. require, where developments cannot provide onsite servicing space, that it is demonstrated that the proposal can function satisfactorily without giving rise to adverse effects on traffic congestion, pedestrian and highway safety, residential amenity or impact on bus routes. A Servicing Management Plan will be required in these instances;
  4. require on-site servicing space and entrances to be sensitive to the character and appearance of the building and wider townscape and streetscape.

For more information please see the Development Plan Document