A new 'quiet' route to connect Walthamstow with other london boroughs has been granted funding following a public vote.

The project, called the Wetlands to Wetlands Greenway, has been awarded £120,000 and will create a new walk and cycle route between soon-to-be-open nature reserves in Walthamstow and Hackney.

The 3km green ‘corridor’ will connect the new £8 million Walthamstow Wetlands, in Blackhorse Road and Woodberry Wetlands, in Hackney, -both due to open in 2016.

More than 1,700 people voted for the plans, drawn up by Hackney and Waltham Forest councils and the London Wildlife Trust, in a public poll for the Mayor of London’s Big Green Fund.

The project, which will be completed by Hackney council, will see road space given over to green space, new trees planted, and safety improvements made to streets.

It will allow cyclists and walkers to avoid the heavy traffic of Seven Sisters Road and connect with several other quiet routes, including links into central London and the Olympic Park.

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The 'Wetlands to Wetlands Greenway' was voted on by the public

A Waltham Forest council spokesman said: “The Wetland link will be of great use to those people living in the borough who want to commute into the City by bike, giving them better, safer access to Hackney and beyond.

"Connectivity is a huge part of the Mini Holland scheme and just as the Walthamstow Wetlands project will open up a pleasant and quiet corner of the borough that provides great pedestrian and cycleway routes to our neighbours, so this link will give residents even more ways to travel in and out of Waltham Forest.”

The route, which Hackney council say should be completed by next March, will take in Manor House Tube, Woodberry Down Estate, Woodberry Wetlands, Stamford Hill, Clapton Common, Springfield Park, River Lee Navigation towpath, Walthamstow Marshes and Wetlands, and Walthamstow.