Seven parking schemes cleared their call-in on 4 September, in Binfield, Sandhurst, Crowthorne, North Ascot and Bracknell. The Ambassador scheme was abandoned.

Bracknell Forest Council has approved new parking restrictions on seven roads across the borough, and abandoned an eighth after residents objected to it.

The decision was taken by the Cabinet Member for Planning, Transport and Countryside on 26 August. Its call-in period ran out on 4 September, so it now stands.

One thing it does not mean is that the lines appear this week. The decision authorises the Borough Solicitor to make the Traffic Regulation Order. Painting follows the order, and the council has not published a date for it.

The seven schemes going ahead

Six are “no waiting at any time” restrictions, the double yellow lines most people picture. One is a timed restriction and one is a no loading order.

  • Benetfeld Road, Binfield, about two miles north west of Bracknell town centre. No waiting at any time near the junctions with Nash Park, Randal Mead, Savory Walk and Wiggett Grove. Binfield Church of England Primary School sits on the road.
  • Cheviot Road, Sandhurst. No waiting at any time near the junction with Chiltern Road, on a bend where parked cars block forward visibility.
  • King Edwards Road, North Ascot, about three miles east of Bracknell. Single yellow line, no waiting Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 9.30am and 2.30pm to 3.30pm, near the junction with Queens Close and further down. This is the school run restriction, next to Ascot Heath Primary School on Rhododendron Walk.
  • Park Road, Sandhurst. No waiting at any time near the junction with Yorktown Road.
  • Upper Broadmoor Road, Crowthorne. No waiting at any time, from the existing restrictions down to the existing buildout. It is a condition of the change of use planning agreement for the adjacent Hurst Lodge School.
  • The Ring, Bracknell, on the police service road. No loading at any time, added to the existing double yellow lines.
  • Mill Ride, North Ascot. No waiting at any time at the Fernbank Road junction and roughly 30 metres into Mill Ride, plus the Oak Leaf Court and Whitelands Drive junctions and the Mill Ride Golf Club entrance.

The one that was dropped

The council had proposed no waiting at any time in Ambassador, Bracknell, to keep the entrance and turning area of the car park behind numbers 39 to 41 clear.

Fourteen people responded and eleven objected. Officers recommended abandoning it, and the Cabinet Member agreed.

The reasoning is unusually blunt about the limits of the council’s powers. Its report says that vehicles used by businesses have the same right to park on the public highway as any other vehicle, provided they are taxed, MOT’d and roadworthy. As highway authority it cannot restrict lawful on-street parking “based on vehicle ownership, business use, or the frequency with which a vehicle is parked”.

Having weighed the objections, it concluded the parking there is “considered antisocial and inconvenient by some” but is not causing a road safety or obstruction problem serious enough to override them.

Where the objections landed

Sixty-eight responses came in across the eight schemes. They were not spread evenly.

Consultation responses per parking scheme, Bracknell Forest, 2026 King Edwards Road drew 28 responses and went ahead. Benetfeld Road drew 19 and went ahead. Ambassador drew 14 and was abandoned. Cheviot Road and Mill Ride drew 3 each, Park Road 1, and Upper Broadmoor Road and The Ring drew none. All except Ambassador proceed as advertised. The busiest consultation went ahead, the quieter one was dropped Objections and comments received per scheme during the 21 day statutory consultation, advertised 27 May 2026. King Edwards Road 28 Benetfeld Road 19 Ambassador 14 Cheviot Road 3 Mill Ride 3 Park Road 1 Upper Broadmoor Road 0 The Ring 0 Abandoned. Every other scheme proceeds as advertised. Source: Bracknell Forest Council, Annex B to the on-street parking 2026 report. Graphic by Bracknell Online
Response counts include support as well as objection. On Benetfeld Road, 12 of the 19 responses backed the scheme.

King Edwards Road drew the most and the sharpest. Of 28 responses, 25 objected, and the council records that 18 of those appeared to be parents of pupils at Ascot Heath. Three responses supported the scheme on road safety grounds.

Officers pushed it through anyway. Their estimate is that the restriction displaces “approximately 10 vehicles at school opening and losing times”, and their written hope is that those drivers “will find more appropriate places to park or even find alternatives to driving to school”.

Benetfeld Road was the opposite shape. Twelve of the 19 responses supported it, two objected and five expressed no preference. The recurring worry there was displacement into the 11 side roads, and enforcement of the yellow lines that already exist.

One respondent suggested opening a temporary through route from Benetfeld Road into Foxley Lane at school times. The council priced that idea at “in the region of £1million”, said it would need privately owned land it has no grounds to compulsorily purchase, and rejected it.

What it means for you

A double yellow line is not a total ban on stopping. The council states it plainly in its replies to residents: loading and unloading are still allowed, and so is stopping briefly to drop off or pick up passengers. What ends is leaving the car there.

If you live next to one of the new restrictions, ask for a driveway marking. The council says it will contact properties near the new lines on Mill Ride and offer an Access Protection Marking across the driveway. It is the white H bar. The council is explicit that it “carries no legal backing” and only flags the access to other drivers.

Blue Badge holders lose a right on The Ring. A Blue Badge normally allows up to three hours on double yellow lines where it is safe. A no loading restriction removes that, which is the point of the change: badge holders parking there were blocking buses from the stop. Two extra disabled bays are being added nearby to compensate.

If your road missed out, the route is another order. Several people asked for restrictions to be extended mid consultation. The council’s answer each time was that adding to an advertised order means restarting the legal process, and that new requests go into a future Traffic Regulation Order instead. Parking is monitored after the lines go down.

Enforcement is a fair question, and residents raised it repeatedly. The council’s parking team confirmed Benetfeld Road is on its regular school enforcement rota and that penalty notices are issued when offences are witnessed.

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