Wokingham Borough Council · Unitary authority
Transport Statements and Assessments in Wokingham
What transport evidence a Wokingham planning application needs, the parking standards that apply, and the policies an assessment should address.
Which document do you need?
National policy asks for a Transport Statement or a Transport Assessment wherever a development will generate significant amounts of movement.
Transport Statement
A shorter document for smaller schemes where transport issues are limited: access, parking, trips and sustainable travel.
Transport Assessment
A full assessment for larger schemes: trip generation, network impact, junction capacity and mitigation.
Parking standards
Wokingham Borough Council sets its parking standards in the document below. Use it for the car and cycle provision your scheme needs.
Source: Managing Development Delivery Local Plan, Appendix 2: Parking StandardsAdopted 21 February 2014Confirmed as the current standard on 10 November 2026
Policies your assessment should address
The transport policies of the development plan documents in the summary panel. A neighbourhood plan, or a plan for one part of Wokingham, may also apply to your site.
Wokingham Core Strategy
- CP4Infrastructure Requirements
- CP6Managing Travel Demand
- CP10Improvements to the Strategic Transport Network
Managing Development Delivery Local Plan
- CC07Parking
- CC08Safeguarding alignments of the Strategic Transport Network &
- TB20Service Arrangements and Deliveries for Employment and Retail
This page summarises adopted policy and links to the source documents. It is not legal advice: always confirm a figure against the adopted document before relying on it.