Work to complete the cycling link between Luton and Harpenden along the Lea Valley Walk starts this July. The footpath here is now part of National Cycle Route 6 pioneered by Sustrans and backed by the Big Lottery Fund. There is expected to be a slight realignment of the Walk at East Hyde but the […]

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will visit Three Mills on Wednesday 13 June. They will go to the Mill House to meet those involved in the restoration. The Royal couple will also visit the next door studios where the London 2012 Opening and Closing ceremonies are being planned and rehearsed. One […]

The Lea Valley Walk is to be partly closed during the Olympic Games. The towpath between Arena Field, just north of Hackney Wick, and the Bow Flyover closes from Tuesday 3 July until Monday 10 September. However, it will be possible to use the new stretch of path under the dangerous Bow road junction and […]

My comment on the failure of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation to start work on the promised Lea Valley Walk extension, or ‘Fatwalk’ to use the working title, appears in today’s Financial Times. In the letter I point out that this is one of the Mayor’s Great Spaces which was due to open in […]

Lance Forman of smoked salmon factory fame is reported to be planning a “temporary beach club and riviera” complete with moored Sunseeker yachts on Fish Island. See The Independent.

After the failure of the £15m London Thames Gateway Development Corporation scheme to open up Bow Creek with a riverside path there comes very surprising news There is a plan to span a blockage just south of Three Mills this summer. A wide path already runs south along the east side of the tidal Lea […]

Surface-to-air missiles could be deployed at two Lea Valley sites during the Olympics says the Ministry of Defence. The Bow Quarter residential block, once Brant & May, was revealed as one site yesterday. The other is the William Girling Reservoir which lies on the east side of the Lea Valley Walk between Ponders End and […]

The residential building in Bow chosen by the Ministry of Defence to have missiles on the roof during the Olympics is a former match factory. The old Bryant & May works just to the west of the River Lea is a landmark from the Lea Valley Walk, the Greenway and the Olympic Park. Wood for […]

I am not too keen on grass being lost but a large sculpture of a 14 foot high wooden chair is to be placed by the path between Cheshunt Station and the Olympic white water centre. It will be an Olympic legacy. The Lea Valley Walk alongside the white water centre is expected to have […]

The Great British Cucumber Festival is at Waltham Abbey on Saturday 12 May. The event in the Abbey Gardens is supported by the Lea Valley Growers who provide 75 per cent of UK cucumbers. British cucumbers are sweeter and have thinner skins. The Festival runs from 10am to 4pm and there will also be tomatoes […]