Where are we now?
Within the Park itself there is a range of accommodation available including camping
and caravan sites (touring and static), a YHA hostel, chalets and private cottages.
Visitors travelling within the Park or through the Park by boat may also choose
to stay overnight using existing temporary moorings.
Hotel and B&B style accommodation is found outside the Park (most notably around
Hertford, Epping and Waltham Abbey), although provision is often at some distance
from sites or facilities. Budget hotel options exist adjacent to the Park boundary
on Sewardstone Road, close to Gunpowder Park. Further afield, within the London
area, the hotel options are located at a greater distance from the Park (e.g. Enfield,
Rammey Marsh, Hackney, Walthamstow and at Leyton). Budget options in this area can
be found at Stratford.
What do we want to achieve?
- To provide a range of short stay accommodation opportunities for the primary purpose
of extending the use and enjoyment of the Park.
- We want to develop these in a number of locations, with each offering a different
mix of accommodation types and character (but all delivering high quality design
and standards).
- To provide accommodation that includes hotel, hostel, holiday village, touring caravan/mobile
home, camping and short term mooring on the Navigation.
How will we deliver?
On our estate
We will
- Continue to operate the existing accommodation offer at Lee Valley Campsite (Sewardstone)
and explore opportunities for future enhancement, expansion and management through
commercial partnership.
- Explore commercial partnership opportunities for new accommodation facilities at:
- Lee Valley Leisure Complex (at Picketts Lock)
- Expansion and upgrade of existing facilities
- Potential site for primary accommodation in south of the Park (as part of a major
new leisure offer on the site). This will exploit the proximity to London and good
road access.
- Camping, touring caravan, holiday village, hostel, hotel, moorings
- River Lee Country Park (Waltham Abbey and Royal Gunpowder Mills)
- Potential new accommodation offer near the London 2012 White Water Canoe Centre
- Small scale seasonal camping, touring caravan/mobile home, hostel, hotel
- Broxbourne
- Potential site for primary accommodation node in north of Park, building on leisure
and recreation opportunities of River Lee Country Park, river and Navigation and
surrounding environs
- Holiday village, moorings and/or marina, camping
- Explore opportunities to provide temporary accommodation facilities that could support
the London 2012 Olympics
- Explore opportunities to enhance existing, and develop new, recreational moorings.
Working with others
We will
- Continue to support the existing accommodation offer within the Park and maximise
opportunities for joint marketing promotions. Key sites include:
- Roydon Mill Leisure Park
- YHA Lee Valley (Youth Hostel Association, Cheshunt)
- Support the development of additional accommodation opportunities that complement
existing or planned accommodation elsewhere in the Park, and which meet the needs
of other Park facilities users. Possible sites include:
- Olympic Park
- Potential hotel and hostel accommodation to complement nearby hotel offer within
and around Stratford City
- Lea Bridge Road
- Potential accommodation offer as part of the future redevelopment of the Lea Bridge
area
- Work in partnership with British Waterways and other partners to explore opportunities
to enhance existing, and develop new, recreational moorings.
- Work in partnership with accommodation providers beyond the Park boundary to develop
mutually beneficial activity and marketing packages.