Thursday 28 September 2017

Walthamstow Assembly Hall

A range of educational study tours are planned to take place across the borough of Waltham Forest on 28th September. 

Study tours will provide delegates with an opportunity to meet with lead engineers and planners to find out more and to learn from highly successful schemes including cycle routes, villages, town centres and complimentary measures. 

• Please note that each site visit has a maximum of 20 participants each

   

11.15

Site Visit 1
Cycle Tour

11.15

Site Visit 2
Walking Tour

Cycle Routes - This tour will focus on segregated, semi-segregated and Quietway routes, with a 14km cycle along sections of Forest Road, Leyton-Blackhorse Route, Lea Bridge Road and Quietway 2. Meet at 11am outside Walthamstow Assembly Hall.

Villages - This tour around the Walthamstow 'village' schemes takes in modal filters, pocket parks, planting, public art and other interventions which have been introduced in the residential areas around Walthamstow Central. The tour will also incorporate the unveiling of a blue plaque to commemorate the life of John Kemp Starley at 12pm at Walthamstow School for Girls. Meet at 11am outside Walthamstow Assembly Hall.

15.45

Site Visit 3
Cycling Tour

15.45

Site Visit 4
Walking Tour

Town Centres - This tour will focus primarily on Walthamstow and Leyton town centres. It will feature a 14km cycle ride around both commercial and residential areas and will showcase the range of interventions required in order to provide benefits to all members of the community. Meet at 3.15pm outside Walthamstow Assembly Hall.

Complementary Measures – This tour will focus on our suite of resources that support the cycling infrastructure that is being constructed, and will feature residential cycle parking hangars, station cycle hubs, cycle hire points, community planting schemes and the Selborne Road Air Quality Scheme, followed by a cycling initiatives presentation in Vestry House Museum. Meet at 3.15pm outside Walthamstow Assembly Hall.