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The McLaren Technology Centre is the headquarters of the McLaren Group and its subsidiaries, located on a 500,000 m 2 (50 ha) site in Woking, Surrey, England. [1] The complex consists of two buildings: the original McLaren Technology Centre, which acts as the main headquarters for the group, and the newer McLaren Production Centre, primarily used for manufacturing McLaren Automotive cars.
Woking Borough Council is the local authority for Woking in Surrey, England. The council consists of 30 councillors, three for each of the 10 wards in the town. [ 3 ] It is currently controlled by the Liberal Democrats , led by Ann-Marie Barker. [ 4 ]
Under the First Wilson ministry's Commons Registration Act 1965 (CRA), a task and duty was given to top level local authorities to log and register all Common Land within England & Wales to ensure continued protection for public benefit and to mitigate the effects of 19th century inclosure resulting in perennial court claims of ownership by the aristocracy and other landowners to pieces of ...
As part of the reorganisation of local government in 1974, Woking became a borough for the first time. [5] In this context, the council leaders decided to commission new civic offices where all the staff would be co-located: they considered various sites including one in Guildford Road, but eventually selected a location adjacent to the ...
Woking (/ ˈ w oʊ k ɪ ŋ / WOH-king) is a town and borough in northwest Surrey, England, around 23 mi (36 km) from central London. It appears in Domesday Book as Wochinges, and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner.
Development Management (DM), formerly known as planning control, or development control, is the element of the United Kingdom's system of town and country planning through which local government or the Secretary of State, regulates land use and new building, i.e. development.
It enables the applicant to see whether a proposal is likely to be accepted before going to the expense of drawing up a detailed planning application. [1] Outline Planning Permission was introduced with the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. [2] It allows for certain "reserved matters" to be deferred until the submission of one or more ...
Old Woking is a ward and the original settlement of the town and borough of Woking, Surrey, about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) southeast of the modern town centre.It is bounded by the Hoe Stream to the north and the River Wey to the south and between Kingfield to the west and farmland to the east.