March 2025
Parking and Car Parks: Working alongside the Shops and
Businesses Advisory Committee and Elmbridge Borough
Council, the transport group has helped to secure 30
minutes of free parking in both Torrington Lodge and Hare
Lane car parks. It is also lobbying Elmbridge to improve
the signage for the village car parks, to encourage use and
increase awareness of the free parking period. These
improvements should help to alleviate congestion on The
Parade and reduce the level of illegal parking on double
yellow lines on Hare Lane near the Co-op.
The group is also working with the Parish Council in
discussions with South Western Railway over improving
signage at the station car park, and addressing some of
the issues with parking at the station end of The Parade.
All ideas and contributions are welcome and the group is
keen to hear from those wishing to be involved. Please get
in touch with the Advisory Committee via the Parish Clerk
at clerk@claygateparishcouncil.gov.uk
source: Claygate Courier, March 2025 issue, page 7
| To discuss painting the parking bays (especially the disabled bays outside the Hare Lane shops).
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| Peter Whitehead spoke to the Committee about this and reported that this is still an ongoing issue. The Chairman noted that he had raised the matter with SC Cllr Sugden who had told him these lines are some of a larger number to be repainted in the future. He had asked the SC Cllr when this might happen, but this is currently unknown.
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| (extract from Environment, Highways, and Transport Committee meeting, 3rd October 2024, item 12)
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| To receive a report from Transport and Parking Group and agree appropriate actions.
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| Ben Full reported that parking in Claygate can be quite poor in places: several cars park on the kerbs and even pavements. Ben requested more engagement with the CPC. It was stated that another reason for the governance structure devised for the former CTWF working groups was to spread the workload across more people than the ten Parish Cllrs. Ben was invited to present an implementation plan at the next EHTC Meeting.
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| (extract from Environment, Highways, and Transport Committee meeting, 3rd October 2024, item 11)
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| To discuss parking on pavements and grass verges, which seems to be commonplace now in Claygate.
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| Ben Full agreed to write something to the Clerk regarding this and we will then add it to our news page on the website.
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| (extract from Environment, Highways, and Transport Committee meeting, 3rd October 2024, item 14)
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