About Enjoy Waltham Forest

In 2014, Waltham Forest Council secured £30million funding from Transport for London’s (TfL) Mini-Holland Programme to upgrade our streets and road network, tackling key issues around road safety, air quality and public health. 

With 40% of our residents not having access to a vehicle, we needed to create safer and more attractive streets that encourage walking, cycling and the use of public transport. 

As one of three pilot boroughs, we transformed the borough with a range of residential area-based schemes, and corridor schemes, to provide the borough with a mix of safer direct walking and cycling routes between our town centres and pockets of quieter residential areas for local journeys. You can read more about our schemes introduced as part of the Mini-Holland Programme by visiting our Past Schemes page. 

Since receiving Mini-Holland funding, we have continued to deliver an ambitious programme of regeneration activities borough wide as one of the leading boroughs across the country. You can read more about our current Enjoy Waltham Forest schemes by visiting our Current Schemes page.

Enjoy Waltham Forest aims to create streets and public spaces of the future by:

• Creating safe, protected and dedicated cycle lanes
• Upgrading crossings to prioritise pedestrians and make walking safer
• Upgrading bus stops and locations to make public transport more accessible and reliable for all
• Upgrading junctions to help traffic flow more easily
• Creating and improving walking and cycling routes that make it easier to get between our town centres
• Installing cycle infrastructure such as cycle hubs, cycle stands and cycle hangars to make storing bikes easy
• Designing new outdoor spaces such as parklets and pocket parks for the local community to enjoy
• Improving planting and plant selection to increase bio-diversity
• Introducing sustainable urban drainage (SUDS) to address issues with flooding
• Creating quieter and safer residential streets that make walking and cycling more appealing and safer for all.

Find below documents relating to the Mini-Holland Programme and Enjoy Waltham Forest schemes:

• Mini Holland Cycling Strategy (PDF)
• Waltham Forest Mini Holland Design Guide (PDF)
• Walking and Cycling Account 2017 (PDF)
• Walking and Cycling Account 2018 (PDF)
• Walking and Cycling Account 2019 (PDF)
• Walking and Cycling Account 2020 (PDF)
• Walking and Cycling Account 2021 (PDF)
• Walking and Cycling Account 2022 (PDF)
• Walking and Cycling Account 2023 (PDF)
• Walking and Cycling Account 2024 (PDF)
• 10 Years of Enjoy Waltham Forest Brochure (PDF)
• Mini-Holland Programme Bid document 2013 (PDF)

Find below videos created as part of the Mini-Holland Programme and Enjoy Waltham Forest schemes.

• Watch Celebrating 10 years of Enjoy Waltham Forest on YouTube
• Watch Five Years of Enjoy Waltham Forest on YouTube
• Watch Lea Bridge Road Dash 2019 on YouTube
• Watch The Lea Bridge Road Dash on YouTube