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Letter: One of the Ugliest Buildings Guildford Has Seen
Published on: 14 Dec, 2025
Updated on: 14 Dec, 2025
View of multi-storey car park at Guildford station from Hedgeway in Onslow Village.
From Andrew Halliday
former managing director of Safeguard buses
See also: Is This the Ugliest Building in Guildford?
The mist flowing through the North Downs “gap” across the town on Saturday (December 13) did wonders to expose the ugly brutality and sheer scale of the new multi-storey car park at the railway station when viewed from Hedgeway in Onslow Village.
With or without the mist as a backdrop this car park must be one of the ugliest buildings Guildford has seen, though there have been a fair few others over the years.
I suspect the planning inspector and minister who approved the development didn’t bother to consider the effect of his decision on the view of our town as seen from the west.
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D Bisdee
December 18, 2025 at 6:08 pm
It’s dreadful that the skyline of our town has been ruined by – of all things – a multi storey car park. Complete madness and civic vandalism as the inspector overrode the decisions and wishes of our local council.
David Rodger
December 21, 2025 at 7:07 pm
I entirely agree. The building gives new visitors to Guildford a terrible impression, only partly relieved when one enters the once vibrant centre and finds so many shops gone due to the decline of the retail trade.
Lottie Harding
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 pm
What I want to know is why it’s taking the Network Rail/Kier consortium, Solum, so long to build out the rest of the development?
The car park was meant to have been in the middle of a number of blocks of apartments. They haven’t been built yet and not even a sign of them being built. At this rate Debenhams and North Street, which seem to be progressing very quickly, will be fully built out first, despite the planning permission for the station being granted years before them.