Update on work to 'smarten up' and bring RBWM car parks 'back up to standard'

The council has provided an update on the progress it is making to bring the Stafferton Way Car Park ‘back up to standard’, and improvement works it has planned for other car parks across the borough.

Windsor and Maidenhead council partially closed the multi-storey Stafferton Way Car Park in January after it said the site had been subject to ‘recent incidents of vandalism’.

All floors above level one – which are council-owned – remain closed to the public while the borough investigates repair work.

Residents previously raised concerns about the car park, with issues such as broken lifts, failing lights and anti-social behaviour.

The council approved a £280,000 budget in November to fix damaged lighting and install CCTV at the facility.

At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday (February 24), Councillor Geoff Hill, the cabinet member for highways, said: “We’re getting quotes from suppliers to repair and bring that [area] back up to standard.

“We hope to have those by the end of March [or the] beginning of April and then you’ll start to see some movement there.”

The council has also been facing ongoing issues at the multi-million pound Vicus Way Car Park which opened in December 2022.

Lifts at the towering council-owned car park have been impacted by drainage issues.

Damaged concrete cladding has also resulted in scaffolding being in place around the car park since May 2024.

Cllr Hill (Lib Dem, Oldfield) told the York House meeting the council is ‘hunting down’ the structural drawings of the car park from the developer.

He said: “[The developer] I believe has gone into liquidation, so that’s a difficult job.

“As soon as we’ve got those [drawings] and we confirm the surveyor’s reports, then we’ll be making full and final repairs to that car park.”

The council is set to progress works on Hines Meadow Car Park, in Saint-Cloud Way, to ‘smarten that car park up’ and make it a ‘more desirable’ car park to use for residents, the meeting heard.

Windsor’s Victoria Street multi-storey car park has also been a subject of concern, with previous reports of rough sleeping at the car park.

Cllr Hill said: “We know there has been some difficulties with the Victoria Street Car Park.

“We have a working group for that and that is progressing rather well so we’ll be taking care of the people who have been sleeping there and we’re also making it a more desirable car park to use for residents.”