More details about train station redevelopment

Solum Regeneration, the company behind the planning application to redevelop Guildford train station, held two public exhibitions in January to let people find out more about their plans and to give their views. For those who missed the exhibitions, more details have now been published on their website.

The scheme is planned to cost £150 million and will involve redeveloping the station concourse and building 445 homes and a multi-storey car park.

If you want to give your views on the proposed redevelopment then you can give Solum your views here and you can find the planning application on the council website and officially comment on it here.

Personally speaking, while I’m in favour in principle of improving the railway station (particularly creating more space for bicycles) and building more homes in the town centre, I’m still quite dubious about the wisdom of putting so many new cars on the road right next to the already clogged gyratory and I do think they should be doing a lot more to link up with the bus network. So for me this is a wait and see what the final proposal looks like situation.

One thought on “More details about train station redevelopment

  1. H. Trevor Jones says:

    I support station development in principle.
    Homes, offices, commercial outlets (and I suggest a budget hotel aimed at visitors by rail, now dropped from plans) should all be geared to public transport users,with perhaps a car pool for occasional car use by residents.
    Development should allow passive provision for extra platforms, not only new through platforms on west side (as in Network Rail Wessex Route Study) but also an extra bay platform on east (town) side to enable augmentation of services via Effingham without obstructing through platforms.
    Good pedestrian access to town centre should (and I believe is) part of the scheme.
    H. Trevor Jones
    Guildford rail users (an informal group of activists and local politicians)
    Guildford, GU2 7NH

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