Surrey wants double yellow lines on Brightwells Road, Old Compton Lane and Waverley Lane, and a loading bay on East Street. Comment by 6 November 2026.

Surrey County Council has published nine parking changes for Farnham, and you have until 6 November 2026 to object or support them.

They are part of the Waverley parking review 2025, which the county is advertising from 9 October. Most are new double yellow lines. The others tidy up the loading and disabled bays being built in the town centre.

The same notice covers Godalming, Farncombe, Haslemere, Milford, Cranleigh and Alfold. In Godalming, double yellow lines are proposed on five roads around Tuesley Lane because of student parking from Godalming College.

What is proposed in Farnham

Surrey’s statement of reasons sets out each change and why the county wants it.

Where What would change Surrey’s reason
Lower Weybourne Lane and Rankine Close, Badshot Lea Double yellow lines on the junction and into Rankine Close, up to the garages and number 19 Parked cars narrow the road so fire engines and ambulances “would struggle to pass without mounting the footway”
Brightwells Road Double yellow lines extended on both sides to the bollards at the end, except the EV charging bays Parking on the road and pavement blocks service doors and gates at Brightwells
Brightwells Yard Existing double yellow lines made enforceable, and a loading only bay on the west side layby Access and deliveries for shops and flats
East Street, outside numbers 9 to 13 A loading only bay, at any time, on the block paved layby The layby was built as a loading area during the Woolmead redevelopment
Castle Street, The Borough and West Street Loading and disabled bays moved and lengthened on the plans The built laybys have tapered ends, so the bays need to match
Waverley Lane, west of Broomleaf Road Single yellow line turned into double yellow lines, up to the limited waiting bay Sight lines and traffic flow, including for buses
Old Compton Lane, outside numbers 11 and 13 Single yellow line turned into double yellow lines Lorries and vans park on the approach to the bend opposite the junction to Moor Park Way
St George’s Road, outside number 29 A disabled bay becomes a Zone B permit holders bay, Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm Blue Badge holders no longer need it
The Courtyard, 17 West Street The new development would not be able to get Zone A parking permits It has off-street parking, and county policy excludes new developments from permits

Two of the roads, Brightwells Road and Brightwells Yard, belong to Waverley Borough Council. Surrey says Waverley has given permission for the lines to be added to its orders, so the county’s wardens can enforce them.

The town centre bays are not new

The Castle Street, Borough and West Street change is a correction, not a new scheme. The loading and disabled bays were agreed earlier as part of the Farnham town centre works. Surrey says the first plans showed square-ended laybys, but the detailed design gave them tapered ends, which take up more of the road.

The county says the times and the number of vehicles each bay holds are “still as originally intended”. Only the lengths and positions change, to match what is being built.

The formal notice lists the bays like this:

  • loading only, at any time: Castle Street, The Borough, Brightwells Yard and East Street
  • loading only, 8am to 6pm: West Street
  • disabled bays, three hours, no return within one hour: Castle Street
  • no loading, Monday to Saturday 8am to 9.30am and 4.30pm to 6pm: East Street, near number 14, redrawn to match the new layout where an old road entrance has been closed with bollards

A fixed price for childcare permits

One change applies across the whole borough. A permit for someone employed to visit a home to provide childcare would cost the same as a second resident’s permit, fixed, rather than varying with how many permits the household already holds.

The formal notice gives that price as £108 a year. It also sets out the Zone B permit charges for St George’s Road:

  • £88 for a first permit
  • £108 for a second
  • £138 for any more
  • a £4 rise on each on 1 January 2028

Elsewhere in the district

Godalming, about ten miles east. Double yellow lines are proposed on parts of Tuesley Lane, Greenhill Close, Tuesley Corner, Shackstead Lane and Oakdene Road. Surrey says there have been “a large number of complaints” about student parking from Godalming College. It explains that when lower sixth students start passing their driving tests, the college’s car parks run out of room. Many of the new lines are “precautionary”, where parking is expected to move to. There are also new lines on the Pullman Lane junction for numbers 61 to 81, after residents signed a request.

Meadrow, Catteshall and Farncombe. Three more proposals are part of the first phase of the Guildford to Godalming Greenway, the walking and cycling route funded by Active Travel England:

  • A3100 Meadrow: 82 metres of limited waiting parking replaced by double yellow lines on both sides, from outside number 101a, for a new toucan crossing about 33 metres south of Wyatt’s Close and wider shared paths towards Catteshall Road (Surrey’s Meadrow proposal)
  • Catteshall Road and Catteshall Lane: double yellow lines in three places so two vehicles, including buses, can pass, and parking limited to one side of Catteshall Lane in places (Surrey’s Catteshall proposal)
  • Summers Road, Farncombe: longer double yellow lines opposite Rush Croft, to make it easier to pull out (Surrey’s Summers Road proposal)

A separate Meadrow change in the review extends the double yellow lines in the layby by the Bridge Road roundabout, to keep the bus stop and a dropped kerb clear. Two car lengths of one hour parking would stay outside the convenience store.

Haslemere, about 12 miles south. Surrey has given up on a double yellow line passing place outside numbers 1 and 3 Lion Lane. It says contractors could not paint it in two years of visits because drivers ignored the cones and signs, and residents “clearly do not support the idea”. Courts Hill Road would get a longer stretch of double yellow lines outside number 14, so a driveway opposite can be used. On Derby Road, a gap would be filled with single yellow line, no waiting Monday to Friday 10am to 2.30pm, which Surrey says gives school visitors more room at peak times.

Milford. A second School Keep Clear marking, no stopping 8.15am to 9.15am and 2.30pm to 4pm, opposite Milford School on Church Road. Surrey says drivers were seen stopping there while children crossed between parked cars.

Cranleigh. No loading on about 68 metres of the High Street, from number 92 to number 46, Monday to Saturday 8am to 9.30am and 4.30pm to 6pm, to cut rush-hour delays (Surrey’s Cranleigh proposal).

Alfold. Longer double yellow lines outside the post office on Loxwood Road, which Surrey says were drawn short by mistake.

What it means for you

If you park on any of these stretches, this is your chance to say so. Surrey can bring the changes in unchanged, alter them slightly or drop them. It says comments that would need a major change usually mean the proposal is dropped and looked at again in a later review.

How to respond by Friday 6 November 2026:

  • use Surrey’s Waverley parking review 2025 page, which has the feedback form and the drawings for Farnham North and Farnham Central
  • or write, quoting “Waverley Parking Review 2025”, to Parking Team, Hazel House, Merrow Lane, Guildford GU4 7BQ
  • for the Meadrow, Catteshall, Summers Road and Cranleigh proposals, use the links above, which carry their own forms

Paper copies of the plans and the draft order are at Farnham Town Council’s office on South Street and at Farnham Library in West Street, during opening hours.

Supporting comments count too. Surrey says every response, for or against, goes into a decision report, and county councillors decide each location after the consultation closes. Nothing will be painted before 2027, which is when Surrey says the agreed restrictions will go in.

For where to park now, see our Farnham parking guide and the Farnham roadworks page.

How the review got here

Surrey assessed more than 180 requests for new or changed parking rules in Waverley between September and December 2025. County councillors and the parking team manager approved the shortlist for advertisement in March 2026. The 2024 review’s restrictions are still being painted, and Surrey says some locations are “still outstanding”.

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