The Highams Park Planning Group
Due to the lockdown we are currently unable to run our usual exhibitions of art by local artists at Humphry’s Cafe in the Highams Park, so Nigel Reynolds has set up an online exhibition of some of his work during lockdown for people to enjoy. …
For the nature lovers among you it is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend. More than half a million people from across the UK are set to take part by counting the birds in their gardens. They’ll also make a record of the other …
OrganicLea have come a long way since the early days on the allotment and now run City & Guilds horticulture courses at their market garden in Chingford and National Open College Network courses online giving people a quality learning experience that will help them develop their skills and also find work in the expanding “Green Jobs” sector. Enrolments are open for the following courses
City and Guilds Work-based Horticulture: Level 1 Award
Wednesdays 10.00 – 4.30
24th February – 5th May 2021 (9 weeks) (no sessions on 7th & 14th April)
Hawkwood Plant Nursery, 115 Hawkwood Crescent, Chingford, E4 7UH
Remote Classroom Food Growing Level 1 Award
Wednesdays 24th February to 12th May 2020
10am-4.30pm (no sessions on 7th & 14th April)
Remote classroom delivery via Zoom conferencing software
Click here to find out more and how to book: https://highamspark.london/community/news/organiclea-spring-food-growing-courses/
The Highams Park Business Group is hosting an online meeting for local businesses and self-employed people in Highams Park. The meeting will include a talk by Gill Poulter on “How hSpark Radio can support local businesses” and a ‘member presentation’ by Michael Cohen of LFS …
HPPG has written to the Council to lodge our objections to the planning application by Atlantis Highams Ltd for the redevelopment of 480 to 510 Larkshall Road (“James Yard”) which proposes five and six story blocks of flats next to Highams Park Station. We believe …
As you may be aware the Council has two consultations running regarding its proposed new Local Plan. The Plan includes Highams Park Station, and garages at the end of people’s back gardens, as Site Opportunity Locations for housing. If adopted, we believe the Local Plan will be severely detrimental to the look and feel of Highams Park in the coming years. If you share our concerns about the Council’s proposals you need to respond before the consultations finish on 14th December.
We appreciate you have busy lives, so we have prepared two simple responses (one for each consultation) that you can copy and paste into an email and send it to the Council.
You need to submit a separate email for each of the two consultations and send them to: planning.policy@
Please remember to put your name and address at the foot of each email.
The example responses are as follows:
Email Header 1: “Shaping the Borough Waltham Forest Local Plan LP2 Draft Site Allocations Document”
Suggested response:
I have reviewed your consultation document and should like to comment as follows:
Email Header 2: “Shaping the Borough Waltham Forest Local Plan (LP1) 2020-2035 Proposed Submission Document (Regulation 19) October 2020″
Suggested Response:
I have reviewed your consultation document and should like to comment as follows:
HPPG has responded to the Council’s consultation on the proposed new Local Plan. In our response we have expressed our concerns that what the Council is proposing will, over time, completely change the character of Highams Park town centre and the streets radiating out from …
If you would like a forest school in Highams Park please complete our survey by clicking on the link below. By way of background, during our consultations for the Highams Park Plan many people said that there are not enough activities for young people in …
HPPG has written to the Council to lodge our objections to the planning application by Atlantis Highams Ltd for the redevelopment of 480 to 510 Larkshall Road (“James Yard”). We believe the proposed density of development for the site is too high, as it will necessitate multi-story development in the heart of Highams Park Town Centre (by the station) and will completely change the character of the area. If you agree that this level of development is inappropriate next to Highams Park station, we encourage you to write to the Council stating your objections.
You can read a copy of HPPG’s objection letter and find out how to object by clicking on the link below:
https://highamspark.london/
HPPG Response to the Councils LP2 Site Allocations Consultation On 24th September the Council began its consultation “Shaping the Borough Waltham Forest Local Plan LP2 Draft Site Allocations Document”. The consultation lists the sites across the Borough as possible sites for development and suggests what …