The local Lib Dems have welcomed the announcement by the Government that part of a £20 million Rough Sleeping Fund will go to help rough sleepers in Woking.

The fund will help new rough sleepers, or people at imminent risk of sleeping rough, to get the rapid support they need to recover and move on from rough sleeping. The grant will provide £370,000 to hire four Support Workers, two which will have mental health expertise, to support homeless people in Woking.

The Woking Borough Council is to increase the cost of parking in the town's car parks despite the Conservatives boasting just 8 months ago that they had frozen parking charges and would not increase them in 2016.

Before the last Woking Council elections in May, the ruling Tories boasted about freezing parking charges and promised that car parking charges in Woking would not be increased under the Conservatives.

After a reduction in Council size across Woking, Lib Dems are proud to announce that we have won all the seats in Hoe Valley, One in St Johns and Mount Hermon and two in Goldsworth Park.

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So many people are asking us about the closed Kingfiled post office that we have just launched an online version of our paper petition that went out two weeks ago here
http://wokinglibdems.org.uk/…/kingfield-post-office-online-…
to make it easier for local people to add their names digitally.
We must put pressure on the Post Office to reopen a local branch. It is not impossible as both Send and Ripley have lost thier local post offices in the last year and post office counters have in both cases found a home for new local post offices in other local shops after the closure of their stand alone post offices.

Woking Lib Dems launched thier 2016 manifesto and Election team with Paul Kenedy the Surrey Lib Dem Police and Crime commissioner candidate.

The Liberal Democrats have warned the closure of Redhill Magistrates' Court and Reigate County Court threatens to undermine access to justice for local people across Surrey.

Victims and witnesses will have to travel up to an hour away to attend their nearest court or tribunal proceedings rather than going to their local magistrates' court. With magistrates' courts closing in Feltham and Richmond-upon-Thames in outer London as well, and Woking's Magistrates' Court closed several years ago, there is a concern that the local courts left will struggle to cope with the increased workload.

Local Lib Dems are campaigning for more health facilities to be provided in Woking when Woking Hospice moves to its new facility in Goldsworth Park.

Woking Hospice currently occupies a land which backs onto Woking Community Hospital. With the move to Goldsworth Park, the current site in Hill View Road will become vacant.

The Lib Dems have called on Woking Borough Council to fully distribute money earmarked to support vulnerable people in Woking.

Central Government gives local authorities funding, called Discretionary Housing Payments, to help vulnerable residents who are struggling to pay their housing related bills. If this money is not paid out to residents by the end of the financial year, councils have to return this funding to the Government.