What's happening?
This area around Blackhorse Road Station offers the largest opportunities for transforming run down industrial premises into new homes, services and community facilities.
Vision
The Council’s vision for the area is for a new linear park, development of homes, businesses, cafes/bars and local shops. Streets and footpaths will lead to this park. Beside the station, a new Willowfield Secondary School will be at the heart of the community, offering local people access to enhanced sports, leisure and other community facilities. The Royal Standard Junction at the station will be made safer and more pleasant for pedestrians with direct crossings.
For more details of what the Council would like to see in this area, read the revised planning brief.
New secondary school
The Council is considering relocating Willowfield Secondary School from Clifton Avenue to the old goods yard and industrial area between Blackhorse Road Station, Hawarden Road and the Douglas Eyre Playing Fields.
Find out more about the plans for Willowfield Secondary School.
Developments opposite the station
The main development site lies between Forest Road and Blackhorse Lane opposite Blackhorse Road Station. There are a number of businesses on the site and it is owned by several different landowners. The Council has been working with the landowners to try to bring the site forward for development, but the current state of the property market and fragmented land ownership is inevitably making progress difficult. The emerging planning brief for the area seeks to address these challenges.
Pedestrian improvements
The emerging planning brief proposes giving priority to pedestrians and improving crossing facilities at the Royal Standard Junction adjacent to Blackhorse Road Station. Pedestrians will be able to cross more safely to the new homes, shops and other services that are envisaged within the new development.
Linear park and new green links
With support from the Mayor of London, the Council has employed engineers and landscape architects to look in detail at how the proposed green link could be constructed next to the reservoirs and how much it is likely to cost. The linear park remains a long term project at this stage because it would only be created as part of a redevelopment of the whole station hub site, but we hope to secure footpath improvements in the short to medium term to create a continuous walking and cycling route between Walthamstow Marshes to the south and Tottenham Marshes to the north as part of the Walthamstow Wetlands project.
