Mini-Holland

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Mini Holland •
Overview of Mini Holland Bid
Our mini-Holland proposals comprise a set of integrated
schemes that will deliver dramatic improvements in safety
and convenience for cyclists, with imaginative public realm
enhancements for residential and local shopping areas. The
overall result will be a modal shift to cycling and walking that
is excellent value for money.
We have prioritised our schemes using feedback from our
annual cyclists surveys, and considered how the proposals
support wider regeneration plans for the borough and the East
London area.
Mini-Holland key schemes overview
Central Area
Primary Areas
Secondary Areas
FOREST ROAD
CHINGFORD
HIGHAMS PARK
CHINGSFORD
FOREST ROAD
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Our mini Holland bid comprises six main elements which are
described below (in order of priority):
1. A substantial redesign of the main town
centre to make it genuinely excellent for
cyclists.
Walthamstow Town Centre and the Villages
The Council is proposing Walthamstow Town Centre and
the surrounding mainly residential streets as the focus of its
“Mini-Holland”. This covers 55,000 residents, roughly a fifth
of the borough’s population, and an area of approximately 4.5
square miles. This forms a “crooked” square consisting of four
segments, with Walthamstow Town Centre at its centre, and
bounded by roads which currently can be classified (according
to TfL’s new Road Task Force typology) as high roads, with
high street characteristics in parts. These are Wood Street to
the east, Markhouse Road to the west and Forest Road and
Lea Bridge Road to the north and south respectively.
MARSHES
BLACKHORSE
VILLAGE
MARKHOUSE
VILLAGE
CENTRAL AREA
SELBOURNE ROAD
MARKHOUSE ROAD
LEYTON
HOE STREET
WALTHAMSTOW
VILLAGE
HIGH
ROAD
LEYTONSTONE
EPPING FOREST
The Town Centre is one of the borough’s principal growth
LEYTON
areas and is undergoing significant mixed use development,