Surrey - General Maintenance

WENTWORTH ESTATE ROADS COMMITTEE

 (Appointed under the Wentworth Estate Act 1964)
The Wentworth Estate Roads Committee hereby give notice that they propose to carry out, through their own staff or contractors, the following works during the year commencing 1st January 2025 and that the estimated expense of the said works is specified below.

 GENERAL MAINTENANCE
Maintenance of roads, verges, footpaths, surface water drains, soakaways and bridges. Maintenance of road name signs, signboards and road barriers. The works proposed are estimated to cost £620,500

General Maintenance of trees where required. The work proposed is estimated to cost £45,000

 ESTATE LIGHTING
Maintenance of the lighting system, including the supply of electricity and the replacement of existing lamps, standards and lanterns as necessary. The total cost is estimated at £22,000

 ADMINISTRATION OF THE ROAD FUND £329,000
The Committee does not propose to use monies from the Statutory Reserve Fund in 2025 for the purposes of maintaining the estate.

They further give notice that they propose to fix the Road Rate for the year 2026 in the sum of 3.0761 in the £.

The Committee are required to give the following formal notice. That within a period of six weeks from the date of publication of the Notice, any owner of a chargeable hereditament or a special payment hereditament may, by notice to the Committee object to the said proposals on any of the following grounds.

1. That the works proposed in the estimate (or any of them) are either insufficient or more than sufficient.

2. That the estimate for the work is excessive, or

3. That the provision for Reserve is either insufficient or excessive.

By Order of the Committee.
Nigel Moss Chairman

 September 2025

Registered Office: The Estate Office Wentworth Club, Wentworth Drive, Virginia Water, SURREY GU25 4LS

 EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This is not part of the above Statutory Notice, but is intended to be explanatory only)

The Road Rate for 2026 is set in accordance with the Wentworth Estate Act 1964 as amended by the Wentworth Estate Act 1964 (Road Rate) (Amendment) Regulations 1990. Consequent upon the abolition of domestic rating under the Regulations, Domestic Net Rateable Values as at 31st March 1990 (or as subsequently updated) are multiplied by a calculated factor which gives New Domestic Net Rateable Values, enabling a uniform Road Rate to be set for both Domestic and Non Domestic chargeable hereditaments. The calculated factor (27.4482) maintains the proportion as at 31st March 2017 of the Net Rateable Values of the shops and businesses etc. (Classified as Non Domestic from 1st April 2017) in relation to the total Net Rateable Value of all chargeable hereditaments.