A 20mph road safety zone is to be introduced in the Wanstead Park ward, covering all roads south of the A12 and north of Wanstead Flats
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Londoners are urged to help fill available blood donation appointments across the capital
Wanstead resident Catherine Grout has won a silver award for Best New Business at the Best Businesswomen Awards 2025
©City of London CorporationThree English Longhorn cows – named Jolly, Kite and Lazy – arrived in Wanstead Park last month for another season of grazing.
A record 950 people attended the third Wanstead Beer Festival in the halls and garden of Christ Church earlier this month
Can you spare a few seconds to vote for us in the Redbridge Social Value Awards 2025?
An application has been submitted to increase the capacity of the former St Joseph’s Convent School in Wanstead, with a view to converting it into an Islamic faith school
©Deepak DemblaA double rainbow over Wanstead Park’s tea hut and the bluebells of Chalet Wood are among the images featured in a new Epping Forest calendar for 2026
The Wanstead and Woodford Marie Curie fundraising group will be hosting a quiz night at Wanstead House on 8 November
©City of London CorporationVolunteers are needed to help build a series of leaky dams across Epping Forest this winter.
Healthy bone (left) and a more porous osteoporosis bone (right)Residents living with osteoporosis are invited to join the Royal Osteoporosis Society’s North East London support group this month
Organisers of the Wanstead Repair Café are seeking more volunteers who can sew to take part in this month’s event
Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus)The Wren Wildlife Group has completed another year of butterfly monitoring in Wanstead Park
Wanstead War Memorial. ©Geoff WilkinsonThe Parish of Wanstead is aiming to raise £4,700 to fund the restoration of the Wanstead War Memorial
A front garden in Wanstead was named Best Sustainable Planet-Friendly Garden in this year’s Redbridge in Bloom competition
During and after Hydrorock installation on Hermon HillRedbridge Council has expanded its use of Hydrorock flood-defence technology in Wanstead after a successful trial
©Geoff WilkinsonA survey has shown people are unhappy with TfL’s reorganisation of local buses
©Alan SimpsonA member of the Woodford and Wanstead Photographic Society has won the nature category of the Redbridge Photography Awards
Day Job Theatre’s performance of Brains by Andrew Atha at The Bull last monthLast month’s Wanstead Fringe saw nearly 4,000 tickets sold for over 100 events across 13 local venues
©Geoff WilkinsonRedbridge Council has announced plans to overhaul household recycling collections
Redbridge Council launched a new website last month.
Redbridge Council is inviting feedback from residents as plans are made for next year’s budget
Clearing the Ornamental Waters lakebed. ©City of London CorporationRestoration of Wanstead Park’s Ornamental Waters took a step forward last month with the clearing of vegetation from the dried-out lakebed
Local photographer Mike Edwards will be giving a presentation this month about the book he self-published in 2014
New permit parking controls have come into force in Wanstead