Waltham Forest: opportunity through adversity

Tour

Friday 24 July 2020
14:00 - 15:00

Waltham Forest Council and Barts NHS Trust invite you to learn about their innovative plans to counter the Covid-19 crisis at this webinar.

Download Speaker presentations

Stewart_Murray_LBWalthamForest.pdf
AlastairFinney_DeborahSD_Barts-NHS.pdf

With its economic recovery action plan, Waltham Forest Council will help to re-open the borough and support businesses and high streets to do so safely. They will look to the future, to set out the measures they intend to take over the next year and beyond, working with partners to build their way to a better future.

Barts NHS, working closely with the council, plans to deliver a new state-of-the-art world class hospital at Whipps Cross, with plans for a new community, including circa 1,500 new homes, jobs, other health care facilities, a new High Street and a connected high quality public realm. Speakers include Cllr Simon Miller, LB Waltham Forest, Stewart Murray, Strategic Director Economic Growth & Housing Delivery, LB Waltham Forest and Deborah Sinclair-Day, Associate Director of Development, Barts Health NHS Trust.

Join this webinar to look at a key moment in the history of Waltham Forest with a shared ambitious vision.

Programme

14:00 Welcome

Benjamin O’Connor, Director, NLA

14:05 Presentations

14:05 Growth ambitions and economic recovery

Cllr Simon Miller, Cabinet member for Economic Growth and Housing Development, LB Waltham Forest

14:10 Housing development and opportunity areas

Stewart Murray, Strategic Director Economic Growth & Housing Delivery, LB Waltham Forest

14:17 Opportunities at Whipps Cross

Alastair Finney, Whipps Cross Redevelopment Director, Barts Health NHS Trust

Deborah Sinclair-Day, Associate Director, Planning & Development, Whitechapel & Whipps Cross, Barts Health NHS Trust

14:27 Panel discussion