In recent years Waltham Forest has gone from strength to strength, with new independent restaurants, cafes and pubs opening, and a blossoming craft beer scene, offering a great selection of places to enjoy.

We want to continue to make the borough more enjoyable for everybody, with an ambitious programme of regeneration activities borough wide. We know that as the population and the choice of places to shop, eat, visit and enjoy increase, our town centres and roads will get busier so we need to re-design our roads to make sure it’s easier and safer to get around and that transport options are improved and more reliable.

All of this development will not only make the borough an improved place to live, work and travel, but will help attract more residents, visitors and businesses, improving the local economy and generating new jobs.

In 2013, all 18 outer London boroughs were invited to apply for funding from the Mayor of London’s Mini-Hollands fund and Waltham Forest was one of just three boroughs (Enfield and Kingston being the others) selected to share the pot of money.
Since then, we’ve used this funding to upgrade our streets and road network to help tackle key issues surrounding road safety, air quality and public health.

“Enjoy Waltham Forest” is one of many projects underway to make Waltham Forest safer for walking and cycling and is made up of a total of 13 Mini-Holland schemes. Full scheme details can be found at the Enjoy Waltham Forest Website.