Development opportunities

There are a number of key opportunity sites for investment in Waltham Forest.

Whipps Cross Hospital

Barts NHS Hospital Trust has been given the green light to move forward with plans for building a new hospital at Whipps Cross, along with related works.

Barts Health NHS Trust published ‘Building a Brighter Future for Whipps Cross – Moving to the next stage’.

This offers a summary of the vision for the new Whipps Cross Hospital and follows the Government’s endorsement of the Trust’s Strategic Outline Case (SOC)

Low Hall Depot

Delivery of a new fit-for-purpose depot by 2022, funded fully by capital receipt from residential development on surplus land (£20m)

Scheme is in pre-planning design phase

Officer Board established to ensure corporate approach