Shaping the Borough: Including Bakers Arms, , , and South Waltham Forest

Your chance to shape our borough Throughout the Draft Local Plan, “There’s a lot of work taking place across the borough to make sure we regeneration have the homes, work places, transport network, schools, health and of sites will be leisure facilities that our residents will need in the future. delivered through “To help us make sure development Local Plan recognises the different needs further happens in a coordinated way we have of different parts of the borough and has guidance, including prepared a Draft Local Plan which will three sections covering the north, central Supplementary cover the period from 2020 to 2035. and south. Planning “It sets out how the borough can achieve “Until Monday 30 September we Documents, an appropriate balance between physical, are asking you to share your views Masterplans, development social, economic development and with us. You can do that online, at environmental protection through growth briefings walthamforest.gov.uk/LocalPlan, and public realm and sustainable development. or pop in to one of our meetings where guidance. council officers will be available to explain “This Plan will shape developments This Plan does not include detailed the details and answer any questions. and guide decisions on the location, policies for individual sites. Individual sites can be found amount and types of development the “Your views are very important to us as it on the Brownfield Land Register which is published at borough requires to meet local needs and walthamforest.gov.uk/LocalPlan is only by working together that we can Residents will be able to make their views known accommodate good growth. make the borough a place where we, on each planning application received. “When finally adopted, it will replace a and future generations, want to live number of other planning documents, and work.” Meetings so all our policies are in one place. Councillor Simon Miller, Cabinet • Sunday 4 August, 2 to 9pm, Waltham Forest “We now want your views on the ideas Member for Economic Growth Mela, Leyton Jubilee Park, Seymour Road, we have brought together. The Draft and Housing Delivery. Leyton, E10 7BL The South Area covers the following wards: • Monday 12 August, 4 to 8.30pm, The Score Centre, 100 Oliver Road, Leyton, E10 5JY • • Grove Green • Leyton • Saturday 21 September, 10am to 5pm, • Cathall • Hoe Street (part) • Leytonstone Leytonstone Library, Church Lane, • Forest • Lea Bridge • Markhouse (part) Leytonstone, E11 1HG

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Bakers Arms Whipps Cross a opening of the Fashion TheCROSSRAIL Draft2 Local Plan: • Ensures that new social infrastructure and The Draft Local Plan: open space, retail, food and School. • Supports the building developments take leisure facilities. • Supports the creation beverage outlets, cultural The District Centre needs of new homesLEGEND including advantage of the area’s Replacing and upgrading of a state-of-the-art uses, social and community heritage, cultural and green infrastructure. to be revitalised outside higher densitiesBorough and taller Employment Area of Whipps Cross Hospital hospital and health and of the primary shopping buildings around Leyton assets. REDBRIDGE presents an opportunity well-being centre including • Improves public realm areas, including more food Midland Road OvergroundNeighbourhood • Strengthens Centres existing to also build new homes, a General Practitioner centre, across the area and public and beverage, cultural, Station. District Centreslinks to the nearby town alongside retail, food and community and social transport, walking and cycling community and social offers. • Promotes theStrategic Industrialcentres Locationof Leytonstone and beverage, cultural uses infrastructure and leisure access to and from Whipps Bakers Arms is a crossroads . Whipps Cross is the and public open space. facilities. Cross Hospital. Revitalisation will also be intensification Strategicof existing Locations between Walthamstow Town supportedTOTTENHAM by encouraging HALE employment land and • Improves walking and borough’s only hospital Accessibility to and from • Enables the building of • Protects the significance Centre, Leyton, Whipps shop front improvements. providing new workspace cycling access to Leyton and it needs replacing and Whipps Cross Hospital is quality new homes, including of , while Cross and Lea Bridge. Leyton Midland Overground and offices. Midland Road Station, upgrading. There is a desire a challenge and should be genuinely affordable homes improving access and The public areas should be Station is a gateway into • Expands the creative Walthamstow Town Centre, to deliver a state-of-the-art improved for those walking for workers. capitalising on it as a visitor improved for those walking the borough, but the sense industry in the area. as well as other identified hospital with a health and and cycling. There is also • Promotes mixed-use attraction. and cycling. routes. well-being centre including a need to improve public of arrival is lacking. New • Supports improvements development including new a General Practitioner transport in the area. The Bakers Arms area will be development should seek to the Bakers Arms District • Supports the relocation homes, employment, public centre, community and supported by the building of to address this. Centre. of Stagecoach London new quality homes. Leyton Bus Garage. New development will • Improves the design Existing employment land build on the existing quality of existing shop • Enables comprehensive will be intensified, and new character, including heritage, fronts at the junction of redevelopment of sites WHIPPS workspace and offices will cultural and green assets, , Hoe identified in the Brownfield CROSS be encouraged, including listed buildings and the Land Register. Street and High Road LeytonstoneA12 expanding the creative conservation area status. Leyton, along with other appropriate employment uses, The Draft Local Plan: • Encourages the industries in the area and identified areas. including new workspace and • Promotes intensification Encourages the creation of LOW HALL offices, will be encouraged. along High Road more urban green spaces to Leytonstone Underground Leytonstone to attract improve air and public realm Station is a gateway into investment as the borough’s quality. Lea Bridge BAKERS infrastructure. Markhouse The Draft Local Plan: outlets, social infrastructure, the borough and new second most important • Improves pedestrian and ARMS Corner will still be the main • Capitalises on the area’s and space for cultural uses. development should town centre. cycling networks. neighbourhood in the centre. unique position in the • Encourages active address this. • Supports investment in • Enables the delivery CENTRALLea Bridge is an important Southern Growth Zone; frontages on new and LEYTON/MIDLAND Leytonstone is the borough’s Leytonstone has a strong High Road Leytonstone. of step-free access to ROAD second largest town centre gateway into the borough, • Contributes to building existing developments, identity and new development • Supports the delivery of Leytonstone underground and requires investment to but it lacks a sense of arrival. a substantial mix of new including employment should build on the existing new quality homes. station and improves its LONDON land and new residential LEYTONSTONE reinforce this role. character, including heritage, integration with surrounding The sense of place and quality homes, including • Encourages the delivery development. There is a need to diversify the cultural and green assets. areas. There is an opportunity to identity of the area needs to genuinely affordable homes, LEYTONSTONE of new workspace, offices build on the existing while supporting higher • Supports the revitalisation LEA BRIDGE TOWN CENTRE uses within the town centre, The public realm should create a safe, sustainable LEA and employment. character, including heritage, density housing around of the Markhouse Corner particularly along High Road provide improved access for neighbourhood centred BRIDGE • Supports appropriate cultural and green assets. the station. Neighbourhood Centre with Leytonstone to allow for a mix those walking and cycling, around the reopened Lea new pedestrian routes Taller buildings will be retail uses. Other areas will LEYTON AND of uses, including new quality with emphasis on routes to Bridge Station. • Delivers dynamic and to Epping Forest and considered in the area. be allowed to diversify to homes. Elizabeth Line stations at New and existing homes will thriving employment LEA BRIDGE AREA and include food and beverage Maryland, Wanstead Flats and sit side-by-side with dynamic Access to the area has uses through retaining The town centre benefits strengthens existing outlets, cultural uses and LEYTONSTONE the Queen Elizabeth Park. and thriving employment improved since the and intensifying existing from London Underground connections to these areas. social infrastructure. HIGH ROAD uses at the Lea Bridge reopening of Lea Bridge employment land to access to central London, and Gateway sites within the Station and improvements to increase jobs alongside new • Contributes to a sense area. the cycle infrastructure. quality homes. of arrival in Lea Bridge at SOUTH the junction of Lea Bridge LEYTON These developments will The area is near the River • Establishes Lea Bridge LEYTONSTONE Station, Lea Bridge Road South Leytonstone include new workspace, Lea and Dagenham as a new neighbourhood as leisure, community and The Draft Local Plan: heritage, cultural and green Brooks. Any development (West) and Orient Way as an retail, food and beverage including new workspace, health-related facilities. • Delivers new homes assets. coming forward will require important gateway into the outlets, places for retail, food and beverage South Leytonstone contains in the area including • Contributes to appropriate flood mitigation. borough. cultural uses and social valuable heritage assets that more residences and recognisable gateway contribute to the character taller buildings around to in South Leytonstone LEYTON HACKNEY of the area. This plan will Leytonstone High Road at Thatched House and Leyton support the protection of Overground Station. Leytonstone High Road built alongside employment The Draft Local Plan: Ruckholt Road. these historic assets as • Encourages using Overground Station. land. • Capitalises on the • Enables intensified South Leytonstone is attractive features for local existing employment land, • Expands the retail, food, The growth in this area will area’s unique position development at Leyton between Leytonstone residents and visitors. including railway arches, beverage and cultural be supported by building in the Southern Growth Mills Retail Centre Town Centre and Leyton. Development will also to provide new workspace offer, as well as social and a new station at Ruckholt Zone. and New Spitalfields, It is well placed between be promoted at Station and offices. community infrastructure, several underground and Road, which will unlock • Contributes to the including new quality Approach, where • Enables investment at appropriate locations. overground stations with opportunities to deliver sites delivery of a substantial homes, employment and underutilised railway in Avenue Road Estate • Enables comprehensive strong links to central at New Spitalfields and mix of new quality homes, workspace, appropriate arches offer the potential including new quality redevelopment of sites Leyton forms part of the London; reinforced with the to accommodate new Leyton Mills Retail Park. including genuinely retail provision, cultural homes and additional identified in the Brownfield Southern Growth Zone NEWHAM forthcoming delivery of the workspaces, retail, The Coronation affordable homes, and uses and supporting social and community Land Register. and presents the largest Elizabeth line. industrial and distribution Neighbourhood will create supporting higher density social and community infrastructure. opportunity for growth, A12 The South Leytonstone Area uses including bringing a new neighbourhood with housing around the infrastructure. • Supports the provision regeneration and inward Investment Plan supports commercial and residential improved routes for both station. of an Advance: Technical investment. mixed-use development at development. cyclist and pedestrians, Engineering and • Capitalises on the QUEEN ELIZABETH MARYLAND Avenue Road Estate, Cathall New quality homes, as well as social and As a gateway to the Construction Centre. opportunity for, and STRATFORD OLYMPIC PARK Road and Langthorne Park borough, improvements to including genuinely community infrastructure. LEGEND supports the building to create a series of vibrant • Ensures that new affordable homes, will be Borough Employment Area Thatched House will also be of, new rail station at developments take AND THE CITY Neighbourhood Centres neighbourhoods that provide encouraged. District Centres new quality homes, as well advantage of the area’s Strategic Industrial Location

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Advance: Technical Feel Good Too Engineering and Construction Centre The Feel Good Too centre, which opened in October 2018. It provides When the Construction first-class facilities for residents, Industry Training Board schools and local sports clubs to (CITB) announced it was use including two floodlit all-weather closing its training centre sports pitches, a 60-metre running in South Leytonstone, track, a fitness trail, four beach the Council stepped in to volleyball courts, The Discovery Café, keep it open and expand changing facilities. Flexible space the number of courses for community use and an office, available. Working with 40 growing beds and appropriate Centre Managers Dudley landscaping. College, in partnership with Simian Risk, the centre now offers opportunities for residents of all ages to gain new skills and qualifications, to help them find work in London’s growing Leyton gets country’s first Urban Cricket Hub construction sector. In June Waltham Forest Council and the & Wales Cricket

Lea Bridge Station Board (ECB) celebrated the Lea Bridge Station reopened in May opening of Leyton Cricket Hub, 2017 after being closed for 31 years. The £1.7m sports facility was More than £11 million was spent created in conjunction with Essex replacing the station, which is County Cricket Club and will allow forecast eventually to serve 352,000 Waltham Forest to build on an passengers a year. There are two already rich cricketing heritage in platforms, a footbridge and lifts, the borough. station canopy, ticket vending The new facilities include indoor nets, upgraded changing facilities and machines, Oyster readers, waiting shelters and help points. improved outdoor facilities. The new Lea Bridge Station has opened up sites in the area to provide much Subsequent phases will see the creation of a real food hub, to feature a needed housing for local people with the first homes now being available. food hall, café, demonstration kitchen, food market and community space.

Why are we producing this Plan? What will the Local Plan replace? Each Council produces a Local Plan against which any The new Local Plan will replace: developments are judged. The Local Plan has to take account of policies and targets set by • Core Strategy (2012) central Government. • Development Management Policies Document (2013) We also have to show our Local Plan meets the targets set by • Walthamstow Town Centre Area Action Plan (2015) the Mayor of London and works alongside the . Details of those targets can be found in the full plan online. • Blackhorse Lane Area Action Plan (2015)

What happens when?

Monday 30 Autumn/Winter 2019  Spring 2020 Summer/Autumn Spring/Summer September 2019 Consideration of Public consultation 2020 2021 Consultation on Draft the outcome of the on ‘Proposed Independent Local Plan is Local Plan ends Draft Plan Local adopted and comes Plan consultation Submission’ Plan examination period into force (subject to and preparation (conducted by receipt of the of the ‘Proposed independent Inspector’s Report Submission’ Plan Planning Inspector) by Winter 2020/21)

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