Woking
Woking Council Tax Support: 2,206 Claimants Face Cuts
West Surrey's draft scheme would cut help for 2,206 of Woking's 2,212 working-age claimants from April 2027, with a 15% minimum bill. Consultation approved.
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Council
Woking Council This Week: Saturation Zone, 3.3% Staff Pay
Woking council meetings, 30 Sep to 1 Oct: the town-centre saturation zone, a new taxi policy, a 3.3% staff pay rise and a West Surrey council tax support decision.
What's on
Woking This Weekend: Mizens Railway's Last Sunday of 2026
Things to do in Woking, 25 to 27 September: Mizens Railway's season finale with cream teas, Curious Incident's last three shows from £17, and a free Lightbox tour.
Planning
Woking Planning Applications: 7-Bed HMO, Two New Pavilions
26 new Woking planning applications: a 7-bedroom HMO on Board School Road, two sports pavilions, Woking High School classrooms. Comment deadlines from 5 October.
Food hygiene
Woking Food Hygiene: Chertsey Road Restaurant Rated 1
The Royal Masala on Chertsey Road was rated 1 in August. It is one of 16 August ratings below a 5 that only reached the register after our last roundup.
Business
New Woking Companies: 71 Registered Since 1 September
Two barbers, a Knaphill pizza takeaway and a dog daycare are among 71 companies set up in Woking borough postcodes this month. Five firms are in insolvency notices.
Crime
Woking Shoplifting Up 63%: 421 Reports in a Year
Shoplifting reports within a mile of central Woking rose from 258 to 421 in the year to July 2026. Drugs offences fell by a third and public order by 16%.
Business
Woking Street Trading: £1,240 a Year, £50 for Charities
Woking's proposed Street Trading Policy sets fees at £1,240 for a new year-long consent, £135 for a day and £50 for charity events. Comments close 15 November.
Planning
Cornerstone Woking: Games Room Could Become Four Flats
The council's own housing company wants The Cornerstone's unused games room, library and kitchen turned into four studio flats. Comments close 5 October.
Community
Woking Car Show: Record Crowd and a 1956 Ford F100 Win
More than 100 cars filled Woking town centre on 20 September. A 1956 Ford F100 won the public vote by three to one, on the council's highest footfall yet.
Housing
Lakeview Estate Woking: 85 Leaseholders Face Repair Bills
Woking has awarded the contract to refurbish 14 Lakeview blocks. Cladding costs are waived, but windows, doors and roofs are recharged. The bill is exempt.
Business
McLaren £500m Investment: 1,000 UK Jobs by 2032
1,000 new McLaren jobs by 2032, but the £500m names South Yorkshire and a plant with no announced location. Woking's share of the jobs is not stated.
Council
Woking Approves Sale of Triangle Site and Goldsworth Park
£72m of council property sold so far, £54m under offer. Five more holdings approved on 16 September, the Triangle site among them. Call-in ends 24 September.
Anyone who has lived in Woking for a decade has watched the town centre change shape more than once, and change is the hardest thing to follow while it is actually happening. It rarely announces itself. It starts as a notice cable tied to a lamppost, a paragraph in a committee paper, a set of figures at the back of a council report.
Woking Online reads those papers so you do not have to. We take the borough’s planning register, the reports that go before committees and the crime data the police publish, pull out what matters for the town, for Horsell and Knaphill, Byfleet and West Byfleet, Pyrford, Goldsworth Park, Maybury, Sheerwater and Old Woking, and write it up plainly, with the original document linked in the story.
We also keep the everyday pages accurate and dated: collection days, the cost of leaving a car in town for three hours, how the council tax bands work here. Those pages are why most people find us in the first place, and we treat them as seriously as the news.
What we keep updated
- Local Info: bin collection days, parking and council tax bands.
- News: what the borough record shows, including planning applications.
- What’s On: events and days out around Woking.