What's happening
The Blackhorse Lane area is surrounded by the reservoirs, waterways and marshes of the Lee Valley Park but access to the Park is extremely poor. A key objective of the Blackhorse Lane plans is to ‘bring the country into the city’ by creating new and improved pedestrian and cycle routes to the Park that are safe, welcoming and well sign posted. We will also aim to create more views of Walthamstow Reservoirs and Tottenham Marshes and a new waterfront park next to the reservoirs. See Walthamstow Wetlands project
New access to the Lee Valley
As part of the regeneration of the Blackhorse Lane area, a new and improved path and a new bridge were created in 2008, allowing access from Sandpiper Close (off Billet Road) through to the Lee Valley Regional Park and Tottenham Marshes
The entrance to the path at Sandpiper Close has been landscaped, the path has been widened and a new bridge has been installed to replace ‘Chalk Bridge’ which closed in 1998. The new path entrance is much more open and inviting than the previous one, giving a safe and welcoming route across the marshes to the new ‘Sandpiper Bridge’, named in a public competition.
The project opens up a number of pleasant walking and cycling routes towards Stonebridge Lock with its café, canoe and cycle hire, Tottenham Hale and Enfield. The new bridge also allows access to the Lee Navigation towpath, allowing long walks to the north or south, which will in the future link with the pedestrian access routes to the Olympic site.
