Five winning projects to transform and revitalise public spaces as part of a council initiative have been announced.

The scheme, Making Places, is part of a £1 million arts and culture programme run by Waltham Forest Council.

The initiative saw artists, designers and architects team up with the public to create ideas to ‘breathe new life’ into parts of the borough.

Build Up, a charity that supports local people to practically shape where they live, presented the winning idea for Chapel End ward.

Hyh House will be ‘rewilded’ with the planting of a wildflower meadow and orchard through workshops with residents of the council-owned housing property in Chingford Road.

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Rewilding Hy House. Photo: Build Up

Lighting designers Insight Lighting produced the winning design for Larkswood ward; 'Lark', a lighting and sound installation for the pedestrian underpass connecting Larkshall Road and Hatch Lane.

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Lark. Photo: Insight Lighting

In Leyton Ward, the winning idea ‘The Makers of Leyton’ was designed by art and design partnership, Phillips-Walmsley.

'The Makers of Leyton' is a typographic mural celebrating the area’s history of manufacturing and craft by Leyton Midland Road Station.

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The Makers of Leyton. Photo: Phillips-Walmsley

A forest garden hut by architects HUT won the Leytonstone ward bid.

The hut, in Bulwer Road, will be “a reinterpretation of the forest, returning a natural habitat to the residential neighbourhood”.

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Forest Garden Hut. Photo: HUT

In Wood Street ward, designer Eleanor Hill won with ‘On Your Terms’, a language-themed mural by Wood Street Station, representing Walthamstow’s community and character.

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On Your Terms. Photo: Eleanor Hill

Cllr Clare Coghill, leader of the council, said: “These projects will complete the successful Making Places programme which has seen artists, designers and architects work with residents to transform sites throughout Waltham Forest. These five new sites will add to the diverse range of public art and design in our borough.

“The latest projects celebrate local character and diversity at two station sites whilst collaborative planting and lighting schemes have been commissioned for residential areas. Together, the five winning proposals are inclusive and empowering, supporting residents to become custodians of public space.”

The projects will start in February 2020 and will be finished by September 2020.