At a glance – live consultations, surveys and updates
- Engagement strategy – closes 15 February
- Bin lorry naming competition – closes 30 January
- Parking permit scheme TRO – closes 12 February
- Kinship care support – closes 24 February
- Consultation update – parking restrictions
- Other chances to have your say – NHS App
 Plan to engage with you – have your say
We’ve finished drafting our strategy, setting out how we’ll engage and consult with you on impactful decisions we make.
We’d like to hear your views. This is different from the survey lots of you took in October and November, which has now fed into the strategy.
Take our new survey and let us know what you think until 15 February.
 Enter race to name new bin lorries
Leave no pun unturned in our competition to name the borough’s new bin lorries and street cleaning machines.
Think To Binfinity and Beyond or Sweep Caroline. It’s a chance to have your winning name emblazoned, for everyone to see each day, on the front of new Biffa vehicles emptying people’s bins and cleaning our streets.
All residents can enter, but we’d particularly like to see school pupils get involved. However, if you are under 18, please make sure a parent or a carer gives their consent for you to leave your details when you enter.
Don't let the dust settle. Entries are only open until this Friday (30 January). The best will be shortlisted and put to a public vote to find the winners. Good luck!
 Parking permit scheme – Traffic Regulation Order
A Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) consultation, on implementing changes to the borough’s resident parking permit scheme, is open for residents’ comments.
We consulted widely on proposed changes to our resident parking permit policy in August and September and your input was essential in shaping final recommendations approved by our Executive in November. The overall policy has now been set and we are consulting on how and where it will be applied.
This TRO consultation is open until 12 February to raise concerns you think have not been considered. Valid considerations in a TRO consultation must relate to traffic management issues, such as how the proposed restriction affects safety, traffic flow and access to properties.
You can view documents and maps, giving you greater detail and take a short survey on our consultation hub.
 Help shape guide for kinship carers
If you have experience of ‘kinship care’, you can share it and help other borough residents in that situation.
Kinship care is when a child is living with someone they know, like a close relative or family friend, because their parents are unable to look after them.
Your views will help inform a guide being created telling kinship carers in the borough what support is available to them. Your views could also identify areas where local support could be better.
Whether you’re a kinship carer, a child in kinship care or you work with kinship families – tell us what you think until 24 February.
 Consultation update – parking restrictions
Parking will be restricted in places across the borough after residents asked us to help make roads safer.
This addresses concerns about drivers parking at junctions and bends, alongside inconsiderate parking at school pick-up and drop-off times.
New, approved restrictions will prevent parked cars from blocking people’s views or creating hazards for drivers, cyclists or pedestrians.
The measures will be introduced in places in Arborfield, Earley, Finchampstead, Shinfield, Spencers Wood, Twyford, Wargrave, Winnersh, Wokingham and Woodley.
In November, we consulted on these restrictions and made changes based on your comments. Residents supported balanced, well-enforced measures to improve safety while taking into account people’s parking needs.
Other chances to have your say
You can give your views on how the NHS uses technology like its app to improve access to healthcare. Healthwatch Wokingham Borough would like to capture local residents’ habits and experiences, good or bad, before passing on your feedback to NHS England. Have your say in Healthwatch Wokingham Borough’s survey.
What you might have missed
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If you need help to take part in a consultation or would like to request a paper copy of a survey, call our customer service team on 0118 974 6000, or visit one of our libraries.
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