Shaping the Borough: Including Chingford, Highams Park, North Circular Corridor and North Waltham Forest Sewardstone Road. 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 leisure facilities that our residents will need in the future. be delivered “To help us make sure development Local Plan recognises the different needs through 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 areas of Waltham Forest. 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 and sustainable development. or pop in to one of our meetings where realm “This Plan will shape developments council officers will be available to explain guidance. the details and answer any questions. and guide decisions on the location, This Plan does not include detailed policies amount and types of development the “Your views are very important to us as it for individual sites. Individual sites can be found on borough requires to meet local needs and is only by working together that we can the Brownfield Land Register which is published at accommodate good growth. walthamforest.gov.uk/LocalPlan make the borough a place where we, Residents will be able to make their views known on “When finally adopted, it will replace a and future generations, want to live each planning application received. number of other planning documents, and work.” so all our policies are in one place. Meetings Councillor Simon Miller, Cabinet “We now want your views on the ideas Member for Economic Growth • Wednesday 31 July, 6 to 8.30pm, Chingford we have brought together. The Draft and Housing Delivery. Assembly Hall, Station Road, Chingford • Saturday 31 August, 1 to 9pm, Chingfest, The North Area covers the following wards: Old Church Road, Chingford, E4 6RS • Chapel End (part) • Hale End and • Larkswood • Saturday 07 September, 10am to 4pm, Hale Highams Park • Chingford Green • Valley End Library, Castle Avenue, Highams Park, • Endlebury • Hatch Lane E4 9QD See the full plan and comment online: walthamforest.gov.uk/LocalPlan EPPING FOREST DISTRICT Shaping the Borough: North WalthamKING ForestGEORGE’S RESERVOIR Sewardstone Road Housing is mixed, with The Draft Local Plan: centre at the junction of Kings mainly one to three-storey • Identifies Sewardstone Head Hill and Sewardstone houses and one seven Road as a PONDERSNeighbourhood END Road. storey apartment block. Centre to provide locally • Promotes initiatives The area has the long term needed town centre retail that make the best use of SEWARDSTONE potential to become an and other services. It opportunities arising from enhanced Neighbourhood supports the nearby South Crossrail 2 to support the ROAD Centre, forming a western Chingford District Centre, improvements to Sewardstone The Sewardstone Road gateway to the borough. which is the main focus for Road Neighbourhood Centre. Neighbourhood Centre In addition to making better development and investment • Supports the delivery of sits at where the A110 and use of the green spaces in shops, services, leisure intensified workspace in NORTH A112 meet. in the area and to reduce and community uses. A mix the area. of uses will be supported CHINGFORD It is a gateway into the car dependency, the area • Improves pedestrian to create and keep vibrant WILLIAM GIRLING borough from Enfield and will benefit from transport and cycle links to Lea Valley CHINGFORD centres which meet the RESERVOIR the Lea Valley, close to improvements, including Regional Park and Epping needs of local residents and North Chingford. Transport the opening up of a public Forest. pedestrian and cycle businesses. improvements in the Lea • Supports sensitively greenway along the • Identifies the opportunities Valley, such as Crossrail 2 designed taller buildings and River Lea. to link to neighbouring large at Angel Road and Ponders higher densities around the scale regeneration and End, are key to the area. junction of Sewardstone Road infrastructure outside the ENFIELD Currently the area includes and Kings Head Hill. borough. a number of low-intensity • Enables comprehensive • Supports the long-term employment uses which redevelopment of sites as delivery of an enhanced and are becoming increasingly identified in the Brownfield expanded neighbourhood under-used. Land Register. South Chingford range food and drink in The Draft Local Plan: junction of Old Church Road cafes and restaurants. • Identifies South and Chingford Mount Road. SOUTH The area offers Chingford as a District • Encourages the CHINGFORD opportunities for residential, Centre, which is the main redevelopment of commercial, cultural and focus for development underused sites as identified hospitality development in and investment in shops, in the Brownfield Land the main centre. services, leisure and Register. New development in community uses. A mix of • Promotes Chingford South Chingford is the the area will provide the uses will be supported to Mount as a place that fifth largest District Centre opportunity to substantially create and keep vibrant is geographically well- in the borough. Centred increase the number of centres which meet the positioned to enjoy the around Albert Crescent, the homes in and around the needs of local residents and benefits of growth and CHINGFORD businesses. main focus of retail in the town centre. investment. MOUNT area is local convenience Developers of sites • Supports the building • Encourages regeneration shopping, as well as at the identified in the Brownfield of a substantial mix of to the south towards the Sainsburys and Morrisons Land Register, will be new quality housing in the North Circular Road linking stores to the south of the encouraged to come area, including supporting to the neighbouring centre. forward to support the higher density residential Meridian Water The centre struggles to growing population and development in the District development in Enfield. thrive due to competition re-establish the High Street Centre. from nearby centres yet has as a successful, distinctive • Supports taller buildings a developing offer of wide town centre. and higher density in quality developments around the North Circular Corridor Hall Lane and Chingford The Draft Local Plan: • Improves links to Lea Mount Road to include the Valley Regional Park and • Identifies the strategic NORTH Chingford Hall Estate. development opportunity Epping Forest. HIGHAMS PARK The land between the to link to the neighbouring • Explores opportunities CIRCULAR Banbury Reservoir and regeneration at Meridian to provide new homes Cooks Ferry is a mixture Water in Enfield. and employment at of employment land and • Supports well-designed several sites including, Green Belt which forms taller buildings (10 storeys identified in the Brownfield The North Circular Corridor a narrow margin along and above) and higher Land Register. HIGHAMS is an area extending the southern and western density around the A406 PARK westwards from the banks boundary. North Circular. of the Banbury Reservoir As part of the Local Plan, to the borough boundary • Explores opportunities consideration will be given at Cooks Ferry; and for infill development to the reassessment of the northwards to the southern and estate renewal at Green Belt designation of half of Chingford between Chingford Hall Estate. these land parcels. REDBRIDGE See the full plan and comment online: walthamforest.gov.uk/LocalPlan A406 EPPING FOREST DISTRICT KING GEORGE’S RESERVOIR PONDERS END SEWARDSTONE ROAD North Chingford its Listed Churches (The The Draft Local Plan: • Includes the Parish Church of St Peter • Identifies North development of new NORTH and Paul and Our Lady Chingford as a District homes in the area which CHINGFORD of Grace and St Teresa Centre, which is the main will include sensitive WILLIAM GIRLING CHINGFORD of Avila) and its role as a focus for development intensification and higher RESERVOIR gateway to Epping Forest. and investment in shops, densities in the station North Chingford will be services, leisure and area. the focus of sensitive community uses. A mix of • Encourages workspace, North Chingford is the area investment and uses will be supported to office and business Gateway to the Forest. It allowed to evolve into create and keep vibrant developments in the ENFIELD is the fourth largest District a more diverse cultural centres which meet the District Centre, especially Centre in the borough and suburban town centre needs of local residents near the station. the borough’s principal supporting a diverse and businesses. • Intensifies land use centre north of the A406. population but retaining • Identifies Chingford at the Bus Station and The thriving cultural its character which we Station, on London MOT Test Centre sites in suburban town centre know is important to local Overground, along with the Station Road, to increase benefits from heritage residents. nearby bus station, as a employment opportunities. assets including the Green significant transport hub for Conservation Area and this part of the borough. SOUTH CHINGFORD CHINGFORD MOUNT Highams Park employment uses in and services, leisure and residential development near the centre. community uses. A mix of around the train station. The area benefits from uses will be supported to • Supports the delivery high quality existing create and keep vibrant of new community homes and easy access centres which meet the and cultural uses near to Epping Forest and needs of local residents the Regal Cinema green assets such as and businesses. redevelopment and Highams Park and • Identifies Highams Highams Park Station. its lake.