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.
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Woking
Woking Lidl Refused: Quadrant Court Could Hold 45 Homes
Woking refused Lidl's Quadrant Court store on 4 September. A single-storey shop with a 117-space car park wastes a town centre site, officers ruled.
Woking
Woking Mayor Set to Survive Council Abolition in 2027
Woking's mayoralty passes to charter trustees on 1 April 2027 if ministers agree. Pyrford becomes the borough's first parish council on the same day.
Brookwood
Brookwood Cemetery Mausoleum: 84 New Chambers From October
Brookwood Cemetery's community mausoleums are full. Six new blocks with 84 chambers start in October; see the plans in the north chapel until Sunday.
Woking
Woking Council Complaints Doubled to 72 in One Quarter
Complaints to Woking Borough Council rose from 35 in the first quarter to 72 in the fourth, and the council says AI tools may be part of the reason.
Sheerwater
Spencer Close Sheerwater: 18 Flats to Go for a Road
Officers back demolishing a boarded-up block on Spencer Close, empty since June 2022, to build an 83-metre road. Woking's committee decides on 15 September.
Woking
Woking Debt: Government Repays First £8m of £500m
The government settled an £8 million Woking loan on 1 September, the first of £500 million it repays by March 2027. The borough owes about £2.2 billion.
Woking
Woking Care Home: 76 Beds to Replace 1970s Lion House
Officers backed a 76-bed care home on Oriental Road, next to the Grade I listed Shah Jahan Mosque. The register still records no decision six days on.
Bonfire Night
Woking Fireworks 2026: Sat 7 Nov, 7.30pm, £11 Advance
Woking's fireworks are on Saturday 7 November 2026 in Woking Park. Gates 5.30pm, display 7.30pm, adults £11 in advance and £13 on the gate, and no bonfire.
Christmas
Woking Christmas Lights Switch-On: 2026 Date Not Yet Set
Woking's tree lights go on in Jubilee Square. The 2026 date is not announced: the last four were Thursdays in late November, confirmed about a week ahead.
Christmas
Woking Pantomime 2026: Brian Conley, 5 Dec to 3 Jan
Goldilocks and the Three Bears runs at Woking Theatre from 5 December 2026 to 3 January 2027, with Brian Conley and Lucy Conley. Opening week from £15.
Woking
30 Bears Come to Woking in 2027: Artists Paid £1,000
The Big Bear Stomp puts 30 sculptures across Woking, Weybridge and Walton in summer 2027. Artists have until 16 December to submit, and the fee is £1,000.
Woking
£3.6m Autism Centre Opens at Woking's St John the Baptist
The Aquinas Centre on Elmbridge Lane is complete: 30 places for autistic secondary pupils. Surrey County Council fills them, not the school. Six a year.
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.