Policy information sourced from The Waltham Forest Walthamstow Area Action Plan

WTC3 - Retail

In order to develop a strong and unique retail town centre in Walthamstow, we will:

  1. Develop Opportunity Sites identified and designated for retail use in sections 16 - 33 to provide approximately 24,000 sq.m of new retail floorspace;
  2. Create a new anchor retail development at South Grove to increase footfall to the western end of the High Street;
  3. Require the provision of ‘larger’ modern retail units within any extension to ‘Selborne Walk Shopping Precinct’;
  4. Resist the loss of any retail floorspace within the Selborne Walk ‘Shopping Precinct’;
  5. Encourage retail uses located on the periphery of the of the centre (within the AAP boundary but outside of designated frontages) to locate in the retail hub of the centre;
  6. Encourage the re-use of vacant units within the centre, particularly in the ‘St James Street Quarter’;
  7. Resist the sub-division of larger units within the Primary Shopping Frontage; and
  8. Promote, support and enhance the development of Walthamstow Market.

For more information please see the Walthamstow Area Action Plan