Leytonstone Town Centre Transport Scheme

As part of the Mini-Holland Programme we introduced four town centre schemes, including one in Leytonstone Town Centre, to make it easier for people to walk and cycle for local journeys, to improve connections between our borough’s town centres, and improve the overall look and feel of these areas.

The improvements included:

• Blended continuous ‘Copenhagen’ style crossings at junctions and side roads
• Road layout and direction changes as well as traffic calming features such as carriageway narrowing
• New cycle parking facilities
• New public spaces such as pocket parks
• New street lighting, better signage, and more wayfinding.

Between 29 June and 20 July 2015, we conducted a perception survey to find out what local people thought about the area and the type of improvements they would like to see. The survey could be completed online, and around 8,000 paper copies were hand delivered to all households in the area. 

A total of 342 people took part in the perception survey, and their feedback helped create an early design which was presented to over 60 residents at co-design workshops in September and October 2015. During these workshops residents and businesses were able to comment on the plans which was fed into the final design for the scheme. 

A public consultation took place between 11 January and 31 January 2016. A total of 334 people responded to the consultation and 130 residents came to two drop-in sessions to find out more about the designs and ask questions.   

The results of the consultation showed that 44% were positive towards the safer environmental proposals, 43% were neutral and 13% were negative. You can find more information on the consultation results by viewing the PLM report in the useful documents section below.

Following the public consultation, the scheme design was updated and in early summer 2016 we wrote to residents to confirm that the scheme had been approved by Waltham Forest Council and would progress to the construction stage.

The construction was scheduled to start in summer 2016 and was completed in four phases between summer 2016 and spring 2019.

• Leytonstone Town Centre: Perception survey results, Winter 2015 (PDF)
• Leytonstone Town Centre: Public consultation leaflet, January 2016 (PDF)
• Leytonstone Town Centre: Portfolio Lead Meeting report, March 2016 (PDF)
• Leytonstone Town Centre: Post consultation update leaflet, June 2016 (PDF)