About Enjoy Waltham Forest

In 2014, Waltham Forest Council secured £30million funding from Transport for London’s (TfL) Mini-Holland Programme to upgrade our streets and road network, tackling key issues around road safety, air quality and public health.

With 40% of our residents not having access to a vehicle, we needed to create safer and more attractive streets that encourage walking, cycling and the use of public transport.

As one of three pilot boroughs, we transformed the borough with a range of residential area-based schemes, and corridor schemes, to provide the borough with a mix of safer direct walking and cycling routes between our town centres and pockets of quieter residential areas for local journeys. You can read more about our schemes introduced as part of the Mini-Holland Programme by visiting our Past Schemes page.

Since receiving Mini-Holland funding, we have continued to deliver an ambitious programme of regeneration activities borough wide as one of the leading boroughs across the country. You can read more about our current Enjoy Waltham Forest schemes by visiting our Current Schemes page.

Enjoy Waltham Forest aims to create streets and public spaces of the future by:

Creating safe, protected and dedicated cycle lanes
Upgrading crossings to prioritise pedestrians and make walking safer
Upgrading bus stops and locations to make public transport more accessible and reliable for all
Upgrading junctions to help traffic flow more easily
Creating and improving walking and cycling routes that make it easier to get between our town centres
Installing cycle infrastructure such as cycle hubs, cycle stands and cycle hangars to make storing bikes easy
Designing new outdoor spaces such as parklets and pocket parks for the local community to enjoy
Improving planting and plant selection to increase bio-diversity
Introducing sustainable urban drainage (SuDs) to address issues with flooding
Creating quieter and safer residential streets that make walking and cycling more appealing and safer for all.