FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN WELCOME Unfortunately, the Covid 19 situation means that we have had to adapt our normal community engagement progress but that doesn’t mean we don’t want feedback. Far from it. To this end, we are distributing information to homes and have created a dedicated website for regular updates, to share designs as they are progressed and as a place to give feedback. As a first step JTP would like to hear from the local community about the issues of concern and ideas for the regeneration of the site and its relationship with the surrounding area. JTP will be sending a newsletter and postcard to homes for residents to complete, detach and mail back via Freepost. Alternatively, residents will be able to fill in an online form. JTP will feed comments into an initial design process and create a Vision e17 for the site which will be fed back to the community in mid July. JTP will ask for further comments on the Vision before the final design is prepared for planning submission to Waltham Forest Council later in the summer. For more information please visit FulbourneRoadRegen.co.uk Inland Homes are committed to engaging with the local community in or contact the Community Planning team at [email protected] or drawing up the proposals and have appointed JTP to facilitate a community on Freephone 0800 0126 730. planning process. During June and July JTP will be holding engagement activities to gather ideas and suggestions on possible uses for this site and present the scheme’s design development. FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN e17 THE TEAM Who are Inland Homes? Inland Homes is an established local Our in-house construction capabilities brownfield regeneration specialist based ensure that we fully understand building in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. We regulations and are able to utilise modern are devoted to providing high quality construction techniques to successfully residential and mixed-use developments. deliver our proposals. Cheshunt Lakeside, Broxbourne Borough Council Randall’s Department Store Uxbridge Town Centre Hillingdon Gardens, Hillingdon We understand the value of placemaking With our developments in West Drayton, and as such invest heavily in high quality Hillingdon and Uxbridge, we are landscaping and public realm, which we committed to delivering high-quality believe helps create vibrant communities. sustainable homes to the local communities of Hillingdon. This can be evidenced through our now completed Drayton Garden Village development, a thriving new sustainable garden suburb located in West Drayton. Hillingdon Gardens, Hillingdon Cheshunt Lakeside, Broxbourne Borough Council Cheshunt, Broxbourne The Design Team JTP is an award-winning international placemaking practice Founded in 1961 on an ethos of collaboration and people WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services of architects and masterplanners with extensive experience of focused design, BDP is now the largest interdisciplinary design- consulting firms. We are technical experts and strategic advisors delivering successful projects for both private and public sectors led firm in Europe. Our award winning Landscape Team sits at including engineers, technicians, scientists, project managers, throughout the UK, Europe, China, Russia and the Middle East. the heart of the practice and works across a variety of sectors planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well including residential and mixed use projects in towns and cities as other design and program management professionals. From our studios in London and Edinburgh we undertake on a national and international basis, including projects within We design and deliver lasting solutions in the Buildings, placemaking projects at every scale, from cities and towns, to Waltham Forest. Transportation, Infrastructure, Environment, Geomatics, Energy, neighbourhoods, streets and the design of individual buildings; Resources and Industry sectors as well as project delivery and creating new places and breathing life into old ones. strategic consulting services. We approach all our projects through a process of understanding, engaging, and creating, which together we call ‘Collaborative Placemaking’. FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN e17 THE LOCAL AREA PLANNING POLICY CONTEXT The emerging London Plan requires London to meet its Ambitious housing targets are proposed and parts of This includes maximising and drawing out the local The Forest Road corridor presents the opportunity, through own development needs (including delivering sufficient the borough have been identified as locations where distinctiveness of different parts of the borough, reconfiguration and investment, to substantially improve its housing) within its administrative boundary. This means substantial regeneration will take place in the plan period improving the public realm, greening corridors, further appearance, functioning, and its relationship to existing and a substantial increase in density is required. This will need at higher densities with taller buildings. expanding the facilities for use of public transport and new development. The aspiration to extend the Council’s to optimise development capacity, sometimes resulting in cycling, and delivering new development that positively “mini-Holland” cycleway network though the corridor is adds to the borough. identified. different density and heights to its surroundings. The emerging plan, includes a vision to build upon the strengths of the borough and to development the The emerging Waltham Forest Local Plan looks to put opportunities available form a key part of the strategy. The Forest Road corridor and the Wood Street area As part of the redevelopment proposals for the Homebase site, the London Plan vision into operation in Waltham Forest have been specifically identified as opportunities in the the Inland team have sought to explore how they can further Borough. emerging Local Plan where change is to be encouraged the aims of the emerging Local Plan positively. and redevelopment supported. Walthamstow heat map Wood Street Neighbourhood Centre A framework is created by the neighbourhood centres of Blackhorse Road, Walthamstow Central, Wood Street and the civic centres of Forest Post Office Super Market Cafe DIY Store Dry Road. The site is situated on a key corner of that framework. Duke Street Cleaner Pet Shop Willow House Wood Street Hairdresser Fish & Market Print Shop Chips Toy Shop KEY Cafe Supermarket Lloyd Bus routes Park Epping Forest Overground Chestnuts Field Mini Holland Route Retail Wood St Industrial Religious Laundry Woodside Blackhorse Primary Lee Valley Bakers School Road Civic Florist Taxi Butchers Wood Street Library Florist Walthamstow St James Central Leisure Street Wood Street Education Station The Site FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN e17 THE SITE Site Aerial Constraints & Opportunities Homebase Site sits at the junction of Forest Road and Wood Street - a key node for the local area. The Southern boundary of the site is Forest Road, a busy East-West road. TPO-ed trees are screening the site from the road and presenting a landscape buffer. Eastern boundary is a railway corridor as well as a 5 nature corridor along the tracks. 4 Delamere Court and Hawker Place are the neighbours to the North of the site. 3 2 1 Neighbouring Willow and Sterling House sites border the site along Development the Western boundary. There is a significant level change along the boundary with Forest Road which increases towards East and is at it’s maximum on the South-Eastern corner of the site. 1 2 3 4 5 Forest Road view of Homebase Homebase Carpark boundary with Forest Road Homebase Car Park Adjacent railway lines Boundary to the North FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN e17 DISCOVERY REPORT In the 1930s a new civic centre 19 was formed along Forest Road LINKS TO THE PAST... 30 by the siting of the technical ...A PLACE OF FIRSTS college (1938), Town Hall(1941), 19 The population of Assembly Hall(1943), and Court Waltham Forest House (1971). 20 In 2019 Waltham Forest was 00 trebled between 1890- named the first ever London 1941 resulting in the 19 In Walthamstow, Edwin Alliot 19 Borough of Culture. It was proliferation of industry in Verdon-Roe assembled the first 20 Grayson Perry’s ‘The awarded £1.35m of funding the Lea Valley. 09 ever all-British plane, named Walthamstow Tapestry’ to deliver a programme of Dating from 1885, the Walthamstow used the Avro no1. triplane. In July 09 explores the emotional ambitious cultural activities 18 Walthamstow market is the to be the home of 1909 it made its debut flight on resonance of brand names 20 A £10.6 million celebrating the unique 85 longest outdoor street manufacturing Walthamstow Marsh. in our lives and our quasi- Walthamstow Wetlands character of its local market in Europe and spans industries as disparate religious relationship to 17 project has opened up to the people and places. roughly a km of Walthamstow as buses and bedroom consumerism, inspired public 10 Victorian reservoirs, High Street. furniture. by Walthamstow as the making up London’s largest birthplace of socialist and man-made body of water, artist William Morris. as a 520-acre wetland nature reserve threaded with nature trails and dotted with play areas and wildlife habitats, WALTHAMSTOW open to the public since October 2017. The Walthamstow Stadium was built in 1908. Originally William Morris the used by Walthamstow English designer, Grange Football craftsman, poet, and Club, in 1929 it hosted early socialist was greyhound racing for The pop boy born in Walthamstow the first time. Though band East 17 in 1834. His designs the stadium closed began in 1991, for furniture, fabrics, 19 in 2008, the Grade who named EAST LONDON wallpaper, and other In 1892, Frederick II-listed front façade themselves decorative arts began Bremer built 08 remains. after the area’s the Arts and Crafts the first British postal code E17, Walthamstow is home to movement in England four-wheeled and titled their London’s only denim 18 and revolutionized motor car with an In 1936 the BBC 19 debut album The artwork for Blur’s Parklife jeans manufacturer, Victorian taste.