Contacting Waltham Forest Council

You can easily get up-to-date information about Council services on this website, by emailing Waltham Forest Direct at wfdirect@walthamforest.gov.uk, 'phoning them on 020 8496 3000, or by visiting Customer Service Centre or Leyton Library.

On the web site

The web site is available 24 hours a day and you can apply online for most services:

All these are on the do it online page which has more details

» More about Waltham Forest Council's website

By telephone

  • Call Waltham Forest Direct on 020 8496 3000
  • Minicom 020 8496 3010
  • Fax 020 8496 3301

You can call WFD on these numbers between 8am-6pm, Monday to Friday.

An emergency-only service operates at all other times including Bank Holidays.

» More about Waltham Forest Direct call centre

In person

Customer Service Centre

» More about the Customer Service Centre

Council offices

Address, accessibility and opening hours for Council offices

By email

By post

If you want to contact us by post, please write direct to the service.

If you do not know the address, you can write to:

Waltham Forest Council
Waltham Forest Town Hall
Forest Road
Walthamstow  E17 4JF

Complaints, compliments and suggestions

If you want to complain about a Council service you can use our online complaints form

The frequently asked questions section is designed to give you answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about our complaints process.

If you want to give a compliment, or make a suggestion you can use our online compliment or suggestion form

Make a Freedom of Information request

» Make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act

Residents Charter

The Residents First Charter outlines the standards that you can expect from everyone working for the Council, whether you contact us by telephone, in writing, through our website or visit us in person.

You said, we did

We've listed comments customers made as part of the WFD shop closure consultation in summer 2011 and what we did to address them.

» More on what you said and what we did