Surrey - Amendments to the Guildford Town Centre

THE SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL

Amendments to The Guildford Town Centre
Controlled Parking Zone in the Borough of Guildford

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Surrey County Council has made an Order under Sections 1(1), 2(1) to (3) and 4, 32, 35, 36, 45, 46, 49, 51 and 53 and Parts III and IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (‘the 1984 Act’) the effect of which will be to further amend “The Surrey County Council (Various Roads in the Borough of Guildford) (Guildford Town Centre Controlled Parking Zone) (Consolidation of Waiting and Loading Restrictions and Street Parking Places and Revocation) Order 2025”. The Order, to be known as “The Surrey County Council Various Roads in the Borough of Guildford (Guildford Town Centre Controlled Parking Zone) (Consolidation of Waiting and Loading Restrictions Street Parking Places and Revocation) Amendment Order (No. 2) 2026”, which will make the changes as described below.

The general purpose and effect of the Order will be to:

(a) amend and revoke some of the existing parking controls,

(b) introduce No Waiting At Any Time double yellow lines,

(c) introduce No Waiting between 8.30am-6pm Monday to Saturday inclusive single yellow lines,

(d) convert various existing restrictions to permit only parking places,

(e) convert various existing restrictions to shared use parking places,

(f) convert various restrictions to on-street pedal cycle parking places only parking places,

(g) Introduce various formalised Blue Badge Holders (Disabled Persons) Only Parking Places,

(h) In respect to paragraphs (d) to (e) above, disabled persons vehicles displaying a disabled person’s “Blue Badge” may wait in those parking places free of charge and without time limit and in respect to paragraph (g) above, only disabled persons’ vehicles displaying a disabled person’s “Blue Badge” may wait in those parking places,

(i) In respect to paragraphs (d) to (f) above (but excluding the pedal cycle parking places referred to in paragraph (f) above), any vehicle may wait in those parking places for the purposes of boarding and alighting (for a period not exceeding two minutes), or for the purposes of loading / unloading goods (for a period not exceeding twenty minutes)

(j) in respect of the No Waiting Restrictions referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) above, provide that the usual exemptions in respect of loading and unloading vehicles, boarding and alighting from vehicles, using vehicles for works on or adjoining the affected lengths of sides of roads, the maintenance of those roads and the services in them and for disabled persons’ vehicles in accordance with the “Blue Badge” Scheme will apply.

INTRODUCE NO WAITING AT ANY TIME DOUBLE YELLOW LINES
Lancaster Avenue (Various lengths, both sides, from the roundabout at its junction with Warren Road/Upper Edgeborough Road to 20 metres South thereof).

Queens Road (Various lengths, both sides, from the existing restriction outside No. 19 Queens Road to 8 metres North of the end of the road).

INTRODUCE 8.30AM-9PM 2HRS NO RETURN 1HR OR PERMIT HOLDERS A PARKING PLACE
Queens Road (East, West and South sides, from the southernmost end of the road to 8 metres North thereof).

CONVERT EXISTING CAR CLUB PARKING PLACE ONLY TO MON-SAT 8.30AM-6PM 2HRS NO RETURN 1HR OR PERMIT HOLDERS E PARKING PLACE
Recreation Road (On the North side from 7 metres to 13 metres West of its junction with Chestnut Road).

CONVERT EXISTING FREE PARKING PLACE TO MON-SAT 8.30AM-6PM MAX STAY 4 HRS OR PERMIT I HOLDERS ONLY PARKING PLACE
London Road (On the Northern side from 66 metres East of its junction with Ennismore Avenue to 40 metres South-west of its junction with Buckingham Close).

CONVERT PART OF EXISTING MON-SAT 8.30AM-6PM MAX STAY 4 HRS OR PERMIT J HOLDERS PARKING PLACE TO NO WAITING AT ANY TIME
Queen Eleanors Road (On the Southern side from 15 metres to 20 metres West of its junction with Elmside).

CONVERT EXISTING BLUE BADGE HOLDERS ONLY PARKING PLACE TO NO WAITING MON-SAT 8.30AM-6PM SINGLE YELLOW LINE
Alresford Road (On the Southern side from 89 metres to 96 metres West of its junction with Stag Hill).

CONVERT PART OF EXISTING 8.30AM-9PM PAY AND DISPLAY MAX STAY 2HRS OR PERMIT D HOLDERS ONLY PARKING PLACE TO NO WAITING AT ANY TIME DOUBLE YELLOW LINES
South Hill (On the South-western side from 90 metres to 96 metres South-east of its junction with Pewley Hill).

CONVERT EXISTING NO WAITING AT ANY TIME TO 8.30AM-9PM PERMIT D HOLDERS ONLY PARKING PLACE
Bedford Road (On the East side from 15 metres to 50 metres North of its junction with Laundry Road).

CONVERT EXISTING 8.30AM-9PM 2HRS NO RETURN 1HR OR PERMIT HOLDERS A PARKING PLACE TO PERMIT A HOLDERS ONLY PARKING PLACE
Walnut Tree Close (On the West side from 21 metres to 45 metres North of its junction with The Mews).

CONVERT PART OF EXISTING 8.30AM-9PM PAY AND DISPLAY PARKING PLACE TO ON STREET PEDAL CYCLE PARKING PLACES
London Road (On the South-eastern side from 50 metres to 60 metres North-east of its junction with Epsom Road).
High Street (On the Southern side from 18 metres to 28 metres West of its junction with Quarry Street).

CONVERT PART OF EXISTING 8.30AM-9PM PAY AND DISPLAY MAX STAY 3 HOURS PARKING PLACE TO ON STREET PEDAL CYCLE PARKING PLACES
Millmead (In the centre of the carriageway, the parking bays immediately adjacent to the island site formed of small element block paving lying opposite the entrance to/exit from the Guildford Borough Council Offices and Millmead House Short Stay off-street car park, from 5.5 metres North-east of Bow Cottage to 10.5 metres North-east thereof).

CONVERT PART OF EXISTING PERMIT B HOLDERS ONLY PARKING PLACE TO ON STREET PEDAL CYCLE PARKING PLACE
Guildford Park Road (that length of the north-west side fronting Nos. 20/22 Guildford Park Road, from 15 metres to 18 metres South-west of the north-eastern corner of the road fronting No. 16 Guildford Park Road).

CONVERT PART OF EXISTING FREE PARKING PLACE NO TIME LIMIT TO ON STREET PEDAL CYCLE PARKING PLACE
Upper Edgeborough Road (On the Eastern side from 40 metres to 50 metres South of its junction with Epsom Road).

CONVERT PART OF EXISTING MON-SAT 8.30AM-6PM 4HRS NO RETURN 1HR OR PERMIT HOLDERS J ONLY PARKING PLACE TO ON STREET PEDAL CYCLE PARKING PLACE
Wilderness Road (On the West side from 2 metres to 8 metres North-west of the southern boundary of No.1 Willderness Road).

CONVERT PART OF EXISTING NO WAITING AT ANY TIME DOUBLE YELLOW LINES TO ON STREET PEDAL CYCLE PARKING PLACE
Walnut Tree Close (On the West side from 10 metres to 24 metres North of its junction with King Edwards Court).

CONVERT EXISTING EIGHT PARKING SPACES WITHIN A BLUE BADGE HOLDERS ONLY PARKING PLACE TO SIX PARKING SPACES WITHIN THAT BLUE BADGE HOLDERS ONLY PARKING PLACE
Bedford Road (On the northern side of the Bedford Road spur leading to the Bedford Road surface car park).

A copy of the Order, which will come into operation on 20 July 2026, this Notice, the plans and a Statement of the County Council’s reasons for making the Order as set out in this Notice may be viewed at (1) Surrey Highways, Hazel House, Merrow Lane, Merrow, Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7BQ (by appointment only); or (2) at the Main Reception, Guildford Borough Council Offices, Millmead House, Millmead, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 4BB or (3) by prior arrangement and appointment only at Guildford Borough Council’s Parking Office situated at Bedford Road Multi-storey Car Park (Level 2), Laundry Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4PX (Telephone No. (01483) 505050 or Email: Parking@guildford.gov.uk) or (4) at Guildford Library, 77 North Street, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4AL during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays inclusive in the case of (1), (2) and (3) immediately above or normal opening hours in the case of (4) immediately above.

If you wish to question the validity of the Order or of any provision contained in it on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the 1984 Act, or on the grounds that any requirement of the 1984 Act or of any Instrument made under it has not been complied with in relation to the Order, you may, within six weeks from Thursday 2 July 2026, apply to the High Court for this purpose.

Dated: Friday 3 July 2026

Lucy Monie – Director – Highways, Transport & Network Management Highways, Infrastructure & Planning Enquiries to: The Traffic Regulation Orders Team, Hazel House, Merrow Lane, Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7BQ, Telephone: 0300 200 1003