During this consultation, we would like to receive your views on vehicle activity and driving behaviour within the draft PSPO area. Your feedback will help shape next steps, which could include introducing a PSPO.

This consultation seeks your views on the issues and impact of this activity and not on the potential ultimate enforcement methods.

We will also be contacting a variety of other people and organisations, including the Police and Surrey County Council, and engaging with other stakeholders such as Rykas café and the local Residents’ Association and Parish Council.

Consulting on the introduction of a PSPO, and gathering further data, will ensure statutory conditions are met, and importantly, ensure the views of affected local communities are listened to on both sides of the matter.

It will also provide a robust evidence base to support a decision. Recommendations made will give MVDC and the Police the best opportunity to continue taking steps towards tackling this nuisance and inform whether to proceed with the introduction of a PSPO.

All responses will be kept strictly confidential. For more information about how we handle your data when running consultations, please read our consultation privacy policy.

A Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) is a statutory power that allows a council to address a particular nuisance or problem in any given area that is detrimental to the local community’s quality of life. The order works by imposing conditions on the behaviours within the identified area which applies to everyone. They are designed to ensure that the law-abiding majority can use and enjoy public spaces, safe from anti-social behaviour.

A PSPO can be made for a period of up to three years with the option to extend it for up to another three years at a time. The results of the consultation will inform the decision on the duration of any PSPO that may be made.

Whilst the police have a number of powers to enforce aspects of this behaviour and currently have in place Operation Downsway which is designed to address speeding and antisocial driving over the summer throughout Surrey and Sussex, a PSPO could identify specific behaviours which would extend the ability of the police and councils to take action.

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MVDC has to meet certain statutory conditions in order for a PSPO to be created, varied or expanded. (Section 59 (2) and (3) of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014).

The first condition is that:

• Activities carried on in a public place within the authority’s area have had a detrimental effect on the quality of life of those in the locality, or it is likely that activities will be carried on in public place within that area and that they will have such an effect

The second condition is that the effect, or likely effect, or the activities:

• Is, or is likely to be, of a persistent nature,
• Is, or is likely to be, such as to make the activities unreasonable, and
• Justifies the restriction imposed by the notice

The formal consultation period will run for seven weeks from Monday 15 September 2025 until Friday 31 October 2025. There are two ways to take part in the consultation:

• Complete the online consultation available from this page
• Collect a questionnaire from the Council’s reception in Pippbrook, Dorking RH4 1SJ, or Dorking Halls, Reigate Rd, Dorking RH4 1SG and return a completed copy to reception or the Box Office at Dorking Halls.

Your views will help us decide the best way forward.

If you provide your email address when completing the consultation, we will send you updates on the next steps to be taken by MVDC, which could include the introduction of a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), should there be sufficient evidence to support this.

The final decision will be made by MVDC’s Cabinet at a committee meeting early next year (2026) and will be published on our website.