Little Ilford
Overview
Newham High Streets is a new initiative that aims to develop a delivery plan for Newham's high streets to help them in their recovery. As part of the first phase of Newham High Streets, we will be developing a plan for delivering projects and programmes in Little Ilford's shopping parade. This delivery plan will be developed based on evidence and co-design with the local community. We want to work with you, the people who live, work, and visit Little Ilford, to identify a set of principles, potential projects, and partnerships that will help guide future investment.
Developing an evidence base
In preparation to working with you and to better understand Little Ilford's shopping parade, we have commissioned ‘We Made That’, an architecture and urbanism practice with specialist knowledge on high streets, to carry out a place-based appraisal of Little Ilford. The appraisal was structured along six key themes: People & Community, Economy & Work, Development & Placemaking, Civic & Participation, Environment & Climate, and Health & Wellbeing.
On this page, you can also find the summary of the appraisal report for Little Ilford. The information included in the report is based on existing Council and greater London data (secondary data), as well as primary data collected through site visits and interviews with local businesses in May and June 2020. Read the appraisal report here.
Working Together
We have put together a summary of recent engagements that have taken place in the area, which you can read here. Moving forward, we have planned a series of online events, including a survey, a participatory exercise, and virtual workshops, which will help us understand the current situation of Little Ilford's shopping parade and plan its future together. The goal is to create a set of guiding principles for the shopping parade along with a selection of potential projects that will help fulfil these principles. At the moment there is no funding available to realise some of these ideas. After the plan development, we will be actively seeking funding to deliver the projects over time and work together to prioritise any funding that becomes available.
How to use this platform:
We will use this space to invite you to actively contribute in many different ways to the development of the delivery plan for the shopping parade and to inform you about the progress of the project. Only the current stage is open for contributions, but you can also review past engagements and see what is coming up in the future.
How else can you engage with the Newham High Streets programme in Little Ilford:
You can also email us at newhamhighstreets@newham.gov.uk and add 'Little Ilford' on the email’s subject line. You can also keep up to date via the council's social media pages on Facebook , Twitter, and Instagram. You can also call us at: 08008611424, from Monday to Thursday, between 11.00 - 16.00.
Phases
Tell us about Little Ilford!
Do you live, work, or visit Little Ilford regularly?
For the purpose of this survey, a high street / shopping parade is defined as a street, row or area that is predominantly made up of shops, markets, banks, restaurants, cafes, bars or other businesses and public services. We would like to learn about your experiences and your future aspirations about using your high street / shopping parade for shopping, leisure, services and other social activities in Little Ilford and across Newham.
Your answers to these questions will help us develop a collective understanding and vision for the high street and will build upon results from recent engagement activities that have taken place in the area, as well as the research findings from the evaluation of Little Ilford. Prior to this engagement we have commissioned ‘We Made That’, an architecture and urbanism practice with specialist knowledge on high streets, to carry out a place-based appraisal of Little Ilford. To learn more about the findings from the place-based appraisal of Little Ilford, you can take a look at the report attached to the page. To learn more about what we've learned from recent engagement in Little Ilford, you can look at the brief summary we've put together attached to the page. You can read the appraisal report here and the engagement summary here.
On Wednesday, 07/10/2020, we hosted our first online meeting presenting key information about the programme and answering your questions. You can find the presentation slides and Q&A sheet from the session below. You can register for the next meeting here.
Take the survey
Upcoming and ongoing events
Past events
Event date: December 3rd, 2020 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM.
Online
Event date: October 7th, 2020 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM.
Online