Regeneration: Walthamstow High Street

Walthamstow Night Time Enterprise Zone Pilot 

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Our call out to businesses and creatives brought some fantastic ideas for the ADVENTures event on Small Business Saturday, 7 December 2019. The event involved more than 30 local businesses and saw a 22 per cent increase in footfall in Walthamstow High Street during the event.

Visitors were surveyed during the event with 80 per cent saying similar events would attract them to use the High Street in the evenings..

• Download the map of events
• Download the full  ADVENTures programme

Background

On Tuesday 10 September the Greater London Authority (GLA) announced that Walthamstow High Street had been chosen to be London’s first Night-Time Enterprise Zone.

This is a pilot project jointly funded by the Mayor of London and Waltham Forest Council, each providing £75,000. Download details of the proposals.

What is happening?

The pilot, which runs from October 2019 to January 2020, means the Council will work with local businesses to trial a range of ideas to boost evening activity, including:

• Offer premises to test out new evening enterprises in a low-cost and flexible environment 
• Produce a step-by-step guide on how to easily navigate planning and licensing for businesses looking to offer evening or night-time activities 
• Create a small fund for existing local businesses and community organisations to help them cover costs of facilities required to host evening activities 
• Run a reclaim your high street event to test out an alternative use of the high street in the evening
• Crowdsource a printed and online map and event listing
• Run a ‘shop local late’ campaign to encourage residents to support their local independent businesses and encourage local retailers to extend their operational times 

Working with you

As a part of this, we will be encouraging residents and local businesses to have their say on how to make Walthamstow High Street work better for them after 6pm.

Please email: regeneration@walthamforest.gov.uk to share your views and ideas.