Your views on the Wanstead Mobility Hub

The Wanstead Mobility Hub is located on the High Street in Wanstead (E11 2AG), close to the Co-op supermarket and a 4-minute walk from Wanstead station. You can find the location on Google Maps here.

• The Hub includes a 'parklet' with seating areas and greenery
• There are cycle parking stands for your bike
• There is a reserved parking space for an electric car club vehicle
• There is an electric vehicle (EV) charging bay, where residents and visitors can park and charge their EV

Please click Next, to share your views and experiences.

We welcome all responses, irrespective of whether you have used the Hub or not.

These questions should be answered from your own perspective as an individual, not on behalf of a group. We are planning other activities within the EX-TRA project for local groups to participate in.

If you are less familiar with the Wanstead Mobility Hub, you can take a virtual tour of the Hub using Google Street view.

Before-and-after view

Click-and-hold the round circle with arrows in the middle of the picture below, and drag it to the left and right, to see what the same space looked like before and after the Hub was installed in June 2021.

Left image: before, April 2021

Right image: after, July 2021

If you have not used the Mobility Hub, please skip the questions below and jump forward by clicking Next.

Because the Mobility Hub combines different facilities: seating, cycle parking, a car club bay and electric vehicle (EV) charging bay, it can be used to change from one way of travelling to another. For example, you could cycle to the Hub, and then drive off in a car club vehicle. You can also park and charge your private EV. 

The Wanstead Mobility Hub was first installed in June 2021, as the second of its kind in Redbridge.

Redbridge Council has stated that the process of implementing the Wanstead Hub has been/will be:

Consultation phase

• In February 2021, the Council undertook a non-statutory consultation on the design of the parklet, and a statutory consultation on the installation and operation of the on-street electric vehicle charge point (Section 17, London Local Authority and Transport for London Act)
• The Council publicised an “Experimental” Traffic Management Order (TMO) for public feedback 
• Consultation letters were sent to residential and business properties in the vicinity of the proposed Hub on 5 February 2021.
• On 8 February 2021 the S.17 Consultation notice and the “Experimental” TMO notice were affixed to suitable lamp columns/street furniture in the vicinity of the Mobility Hub. Copies of the Notices were provided to affected frontages. Respondents had 28 days to make their representations.
• The consultation was made available online on Redbridge Council’s website: https://engagement.redbridge.gov.uk/civic-pride/wansteadmobilityhub/

“Experimental” implementation phase 

• Following the closure of the consultation on 8 March 2021, the Council decided to install the Mobility Hub in Wanstead High Street
• The Hub was implemented through an “Experimental” TMO, which provides residents/occupiers with the opportunity to give further feedback to the Council until the Order is made permanent after 6-18 months. This came into operation on 31st March 2021. 
• The Council will soon decide as to whether the “Experimental” TMO and Mobility Hub is made permanent. The Council will take into consideration all representations and comments received regarding the Mobility Hub which will be included in the decision report.

Thank you very much for participating in the research!