Lloyd Park and Higham Hill area improvements

Waltham Forest Council is committed to creating safe and attractive streets and neighbourhoods that encourage walking, cycling and the use of public transport.

Over the past few years, we have delivered a number of highway improvements across what we refer to as the Lloyd Park and Higham Hill area, such as targeted road safety improvements and upgraded traffic calming measures. We know more is needed across the wider area to help reduce the impact of traffic and create safer, more inviting, and accessible streets for local people. 

This is why we’ve been working with local people to gather their thoughts on the next phase of highway and transport proposals for the area which aim to address some of the key ongoing concerns around the volume, speed and impact of traffic, while supporting more people to walk, cycle and use public transport whilst also improving the look and feel of the area.

This stage of the Lloyd Park and Higham Hill area improvement scheme includes the two following areas:

Series 1 - bounded by Billet Road, Chingford Road, Forest Road, and is also bounded by and includes North Countess Road, Priory Court and South Countess Road.
Series 2 - bounded by Forest Road, Higham Hill Road and is also bounded by and includes Queen Elizabeth Road, Blenheim Road and Blackhorse Lane.

In November 2022, over 5000 leaflets were delivered to addresses within the scheme boundary asking the local community for input and feedback on the latest plans for the area. 

The public consultation formally ran between 30 November 2022 and 23 December 2022, but the Council continued to receive feedback and engage with stakeholders during the first three months of 2023. The consultation was primarily hosted online via the digital engagement platform Commonplace, and hard copies were available upon request. 

Posters were displayed within the scheme area to raise awareness of the consultation of the two drop-in events which took place on 7 December 2022 and 10 December 2022. A total of 86 people attended the two drop-in events where they were able to view the plans, discuss the scheme with council officers and provide feedback on the proposals.

As part of the consultation process, we contacted key stakeholders including the emergency services, medical emergency services, medical practices and organisations, utility companies, businesses, religious institutions, councillors and schools; to make them aware of the consultation and gather feedback on the proposals, which have been worked into the final design.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the public consultation for scheme or came along to one of our drop ins. All the feedback received helped us finalise a scheme for the area which has now been progressed to the Statutory Consultation stage of the scheme.

You can find more information in the update leaflets and consultation report in the useful documents section at the bottom of this page.

The scheme has been introduced using Experimental Traffic Management Orders (ETMOs) which last for a maximum period of 18 months. The first six months form a further Statutory Consultation period during which comments can be provided by the community on the changes under ‘live’ conditions. Before the 18-month period has finished we must make a decision on whether to make the changes permanent or not, considering any feedback received alongside the traffic monitoring we intend to undertake regularly during the experimental period.

Statutory Consultation started on 23 October 2023 and will be open for comments during the first six months of the experimental process until 20 May 2024. Following the ETMO process, we will analyse the responses and include suggestions where possible.

If you would like to send any comments, please write to the Enjoy Waltham Forest Team quoting “LP+HH - ETMO Comments” in the subject line; and send it to the contact details below before 20 May 2024.

For more information on the scheme please see our FAQs documents, area map and consultation update leaflet in the useful documents list at the bottom of this page.