Thanks for taking the time to comment in detail.

I am ashamed at the planning. Especially for the train station car park.

There MUST BE MORE car parking.
This is 2012 not 1950 People use cars as an accessary and as primary transport and not a privilege, you are not taking this into account.

more car parking is needed in Redhill for 4 major reasons
A) Shopping
B) Commuters
C) Office use
D) Ease the parking congestion for Local people

The concept of more shopping and better facilities is a good one, but you have not thought anything about the people and how they will travel and especially Cars.

A) If you want people to shop then you MUST provide a LOT of car parking. I am not going to carry my shopping on the bus there is NO room to carry all my things and the seats are small. and the bus driver will charge me more and bus does not go near my home and i have to carry shopping to the door. Why should I do this when I have a car. It takes all my shopping with no strain I can listen to my Music and not listen to the kids abuse for any one that is not with them, and finally the bus does not get me to my front door and home.
If there is no car park then you are going to have dead shops as people cant get there to Park and go home safely and at their leisure.

B) People use Redhill as a commuter point London. Every train from 0600 towards London is full. The car park is full at 0630 on weekdays
Buses are not direct to and from peoples homes, ,No-one wants to walk home from the bus stop in the rain.
Giving commuters more parking only makes Redhill a better place to come for commuting and more people will use the station.
Please put a MULTI STORY CAR PARK ON THE TRAIN STATION CAR PARK.

C) Local offices are not little one off’s they are multi national companies, AXA, RBS, Insurance companies… They hire nationally and expect people to get to Redhill. If you live any where off the main London to Brighton line then you are driving to Redhill. There is the M25 to bring you from anywhere in London/Surrey/Kent/Essex/Middlesex to bring all these people here but NO WHERE TO PARK….. Parking space at 0800 is like Gold Dust, and people in local offices use residential streets to park much to the annoyance of local people. (These are the people that vote for you, hint!) Put more parking in and the offices would be fuller as people can get her to work.

D) Local Residents & I am one, have been asking for Residents only parking for 20 Years. (it means that you have not listened for 20 years!!!) and with More Shopping and More Office and More Cars do you honestly think that the calls for Residents parking are going to go away.? Seriously. The residents Vote for you or NOT… As you expand Redhill to be better you are going to get more cars this is going to put more pressure on local car parking and residential “free” car parking which is at a premium and you are going to take car parking places away. Residents want parking for themselves and not for any one else and they don’t want pay for it.

I am ashamed of you, and quite frankly will not be voting for any one of you next time.

In all you have not thought through any Car Parking issues. there is no personal throughout of the way people move and travel in any of these plans. This is a expansion with out thought for the people that travel and use Redhill.
It is about personal freedom and Busses and Trains DO NOT give you that only a car can.

The solution is easy, put a MULTI STORY CAR PARK ON THE TRAIN STATION CAR PARK. The car park is on a slope any faces offices and blank concrete bank. having 5 or 8 layers of car park would not impact / have little impact on residents and increase parking. It would relieve parking on the side street and get local people off your backs. (20 years of asking for residential parking !!!) and give new shoppers a place to park and then wander Redhill and then go back at there leisure. (Buses and Trains are not leisure they are stressful and do not fill the needs of the shopper with families and shopping.
The land is sloping digging down to a low level and multi-layers of parking would
A) give shoppers a place to park, and shop at leisure with out having to worry about train and bus time tables.
B) commuters an extra places to park and provide more security.
C) give the office people a chance for those that drive to get here and park giving increased office use.
D) ease the parking congestion for Local people as less cars would park in residential side streets

Happy to chat and discuss

Yours
David

I will pass your comments on, and personally speaking, I agree on the parking point which I think is of fundamental importance to the town.

Thankfully the County Council are now looking at residents’ parking schemes for residential areas, which would get rid of the commuter/office parking in local streets.

Please do submit comments formally, especially as parking is one of the more important and contentious issues.

The present town center has always been one of my concerns:
a) It seems to be always full of dubious looking characters (both sexes) making a noise, smoking. littering etc and dangerous looking yapping dogs.
b) No control over cyclists inspite of signage. For the sake of pedestrians make cycleways and make sure support officers enforce the laws.
c) Litter always a problem – make sure adequate supply of bins.
d) Level of pavements to be maintained and not left to become uneven as they are at present.

Make sure any of the exisiting public car parking spaces that are developed are replaced probably by an even greater number to allow for all the extra people drawn in to the new development.

John