Planned Growth in Waltham Forest 2015-2020 Presentation to Health and Well-Being Board 11 June 2015 - Lucy Shomali Acting Director, Regeneration & ...

Planned Growth in Waltham Forest 2015-2020
Presentation to Health and Well-Being Board
11 June 2015
Lucy Shomali
Acting Director, Regeneration & Growth

Housing Growth in Waltham Forest

• Waltham Forest is experiencing
  unprecedented pressure on housing;

• House prices rose by 25% last year, rents
  increased by over 14%;

• We are planning for an additional 12,000
  new homes by 2020;

• This will include up to 2,000 new homes on
  the Council’s own land.

Where Will New Housing Go?
• Four main areas of growth:
    - Walthamstow Town Centre

    - Lea Bridge Road Area

    - Leyton/Olympic Park Fringe
    - Blackhorse Lane

• Need to plan carefully to ensure right social
   infrastructure: schools, health centres etc.

• A detailed Site Allocations Plan will be published
   to set aside land and sites for new facilities

Growth
Locations

Place-shaping
• Place-shaping frameworks commissioned for Walthamstow,
  Leabridge and Leyton/North Olympic area;

• These will help accelerate development by looking at planned
  opportunities and potential sites, and ensure they contribute to:
   - strengthening the Borough’s town centres and high streets;
   - meeting the Borough’s housing targets;
   - creating a high-quality environment and sense of place

• Each framework links to other Council initiatives such as Mini-
  Holland to ensure a comprehensive approach

• Housing Zone status approved for Blackhorse Lane with focus on
  high quality design

Blackhorse Lane – 2,500 additional homes
• Housing Zone status approved

• Objective to increase pace of housing
  delivery around the Station and at
  Sutherland Road:
  - 440 by end 2016/17
  - 1076 by end 2017/18
  - 1497 by end 2018/19
  - 1871 by end 2019/20

• New Medical Centre incorporated in East
  Thames Housing Development on
  Sutherland Road

• Maximising the links with Walthamstow
  Wetlands project.

Walthamstow Town Centre - 1350 additional homes
• Potential to consolidate town centre as central arrival, retail, leisure and
  office hub for the Borough.

• Opportunity to create new, ‘city living’ homes, enhanced retail offer, new
  public realm, a vibrant leisure quarter and new office space.
• Major planning applications
  anticipated in 2015
  - The Mall
  - South Grove
  - Walthamstow Station

• Opportunities to improve
  health provision eg St James
  Street Health Centre

Illustrative Masterplan – Walthamstow Town Centre

Lea Bridge Road Area – 1800 new homes
• Potential to become a new, ‘high density’ housing quarter clustered
  around the new Lea Bridge Station;
• Access to leisure
  opportunities of Lea Valley
  and Olympic Park;
• Exemplar design and
  liveability standards;
• New homes built to the
  highest space and design
  standards - comparable
  with places such as
  Bromley by Bow and
  Kidbrooke Village.

Leyton/North Olympic Park – 950+ additional homes
 • Bringing together:
   - a ‘village’, historical townscape;
   - unrivalled park setting;
   - connectivity;
   - international standard leisure facilities;
   - significant sites for new homes (Leyton
   Mills, Bywaters etc.).
 • Potential to become one of East London’s
   pre-eminent residential areas -
   comparable with places like Greenwich,
   Blackheath and Wimbledon.

A Changing Demographic Landscape
• The borough’s population is set to                         Growth Wards
  increase rapidly over the next 10 years –                           2020 %     2025 %
                                                            2015
  particularly in the “growth” wards;                                increase   increase

                                              High Street   15,379    6.80%     19.80%

• We need to ensure development               Higham Hill   14,736   13.80%     16.60%
  responds carefully to the changing age
                                              Lea Bridge    16,882    7.90%     14.90%
  profile of the borough;
                                                Leyton      15,302    6.10%     16.90%

• The proportion of children and young        Markhouse     14,525    9.60%     20.90%
  people will continue to grow;
                                                William
                                                            14,165   20.40%     31.40%
                                                Morris

• People are living longer, and we need to    Wood Street   14,270    9.90%      19%
  cater for their housing needs and the
  particular social infrastructure needs
  that will follow.

Any
Questions?