#11 If Your Neighbourhood Were Holland

Movement by Beryl

Originally named Mini-Hollands, Liveable Neighbourhoods was an ambitious project created under Boris Johnson's tenure to encourage active mobility in outer London. Mini-Hollands launched in 2012 as competition for outer London boroughs to win a grant in order to boost cycling and walking in their towns with ideas taken from the Dutch approach to urban design. Three boroughs were awarded £30 million each to transform their town centres and high streets into more livable places. Transport expert and sociology professor Rachel Aldred, who has been researching the impact of the Mini-Hollands programme in one of the three awarded boroughs, Waltham Forest, tell us about the early impact of the scheme. In the second part of the episode, we talk to Sarah Cary, head of Place at Enfield Council, another Mini-Holland grant recipient, about what the programme is achieving for Enfield citizens and her learnings so far.