CRP has submitted two applications to the Mayor, Clean Air Thames, and Healthy Streets Everyday.
CRP is looking forward to hearing the outcomes of the applications in June 2019. Watch this space!
Thank you to all of the 16 London boroughs, and the many other cross-sectoral partner organisations who have supported CRP’s applications.
For further information please contact CRP’s Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.
CRP held its team away day on Wednesday 1st May at The Hub Sports Facility, Regents Park. The team took time out to undertake a range of brainstorming and team building activities, as well as prepare information to be presented in CRP’s new website. In readiness for Mental Health Awareness Week, the day also included delivery of a mindfulness session where the team were given various tips on mindfulness practices as well as details on resources they can access for further information.
The CRP team were joined by CRP Board Co-Chairs Councillor Wendy Hyde and Simon Pitkeathley for some welcome words of wisdom to conclude the day.
For further information please contact CRP’s Carol Quamina
As part of the DEFRA-funded Clean Air Villages programme, CRP are excited to launch an online
Ultra-Low Emission Supplier Directory. The directory lists businesses in and around London that
deliver using vehicles that are ultra-low emission, from cargo bikes to electric vehicles, and it also
supports the Mayor of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone that came into effect in April.
Switching suppliers to those that use cleaner vehicles will improve air quality, a prominent issue as
over 9000 Londoners are dying prematurely yearly because of toxic air (Mayor of London). Working
with the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Lewisham and Islington the directory has a
localised element for 5 ‘villages’ as part of the Clean Air Villages programme. These Air Quality Focus
Areas are Archway, Bunhill/Old Street, Fulham Town Centre, Deptford High Street and Lewisham
Town Centre. To be included in the directory, suppliers guaranteed they would deploy ultra-low
emission vehicles’ at least 80% of the time when delivering/collecting in the Clean Air Village
concerned.
Building on the success of the directory and Clean Air Villages, CRP looks forward to working with
the London Borough of Lewisham in partnership with the London Boroughs of Camden,
Hammersmith and Fulham, Lambeth, Wandsworth, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
and Westminster City Council, Cadogan Estates (landowners), and Euston Town BID on the Clean Air
Villages 2 project that was recently granted funding by DEFRA for 2019-20.
Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, Principal Programme Manager at Cross River Partnership, believes the
directory is “an innovative tool that makes it easier for businesses, large or small, to do their bit
towards cleaning up London’s air. We hope to add more businesses and other villages into our
directory in the coming months.”
To search the directory please visit: https://crossriverpartnership.org/directory/.
For further information please contact CRP’s Clean Air Project Lead Kate Fenton.
We have finally launched our new Cross River Partnership website, celebrating 25 years of delivering London’s future! With the key theme of People, Places and Projects running throughout, the website is your number one place to find out what projects CRP have delivered as well as the partners involved.
New features including a timeline showcasing key milestones in CRP’s history since 1994, an interactive social feed that gathers latest project news from our Twitter and LinkedIn channels and a map view of all our partners in London.
Individual project pages contain useful statistics as well as links to key publications relating to the project, whilst the News page features articles written by our CRP team members to give you a real insight into the work that CRP does daily. The website also links to our online air quality tools such as the Clean Air Walking Routes Finder, Click. Collect. Clean Air and the brand new Ultra-Low Emission Supplier Directory.
We hope that you enjoy using the site that truly celebrates and reflects on 25 years of People, Places and Projects.
The 10th International Public Markets Conference takes place between June 6th-8th 2019 in London. Bringing together over 300 public market leaders, advocates, and representatives from throughout the world, attendees will have the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the character and striking diversity of London’s market scene! The conference, hosted by the Mayor of London and Project for Public Spaces, will focus on inclusion, innovation, and the social and economic impacts of public markets.
The conference is a great opportunity for London to showcase its markets globally with the theme that #LondonIsOpen. CRP previously delivered Sustainable Urban Markets projects in 2014, where 28 recommendations were made via an Action Plan to maximise the economic, social and environmental benefits of markets. Read the full report here.
For more information on the conference, please visit: https://publicmarkets.pps.org/
This year’s London Infrastructure Summit, organised by London First, takes place on Thursday 12th September 2019. Hundreds of senior private and public sector leaders in transport, infrastructure, property, development and investment will be in attendance as they look at the exciting possibilities for London post Brexit and beyond. Key speakers include the Greater London Authority’s Theo Blackwell (Chief Digital Officer) and Heidi Alexander (Deputy Mayor for Transport), Transport for London’s Mike Brown MVO (Commissioner) and National Infrastructure Commission’s Phil Graham (Chief Executive).
The Summit also provides an opportunity to network with London’s business and political leaders at the new £1billion Tottenham Hotspur football stadium.
For further information and to book please visit: https://www.londonfirst.co.uk/news-publications/events/london-infrastructure-summit-2019
Please join CRP’s accountable body Westminster City Council at their new flagship premises on 64 Victoria Street on Thursday 13th June.
As London’s Low Emission Neighbourhoods become increasingly important, sub-regional partnership Cross River Partnership (CRP) is convening a workshop hosted by Councillor Karen Scarborough, Lead Member for Air Quality and the Environment for Westminster City Council. This workshop will present best practice for Low Emission Neighbourhoods and ensure that lessons learnt are carried forward.
The workshop is being delivered in partnership with the Greater London Authority, within the overall Low Emission Neighbourhood Programme that was initiated by the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund.
There will be a number of breakout sessions taking place led by the Greater London Authority, Westminster City Council, City of London Corporation and others.
The Low Emission Neighbourhood programme has been initiated by the Mayor of London, and supported by the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund.
To guarantee your place please RSVP at http://bit.ly/LENSBPWorkshop by Wednesday 5th June
CRP is pleased to be co-ordinating the Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP) on behalf of TfL and the ten boroughs for another year. The group meets bi-monthly and in May, the group looked forward to the publication of the Cycle Logistics Study which will be featured at the upcoming London Cycling and Walking Conference on 24th May, hosted jointly by the London Borough of Hackney and City of London Corporation.
We are developing a programme with the boroughs which will include work on effectively developing and delivering low traffic neighbourhoods, addressing provision for electric vehicles in borough fleets and beyond, and improving understanding of road danger reduction methods.
We are very glad to be recruiting two new CRP team members:
1) An Air Quality Project Analysis Officer and
2) A Communications and Business Development Officer
If you are a passionate individual keen to help us effect positive and long-lasting change in one of the world’s most dynamic cities, then we would love to hear from you.
For further information please contact CRP’s Principal Programme Manager Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.
We have read with interest the Sunday Times article from 12th May 2019 ‘Drivers plugging into an electric future will need a lot of chargers’. In the context of this rather gloomy picture of EV infrastructure planning and delivery for the UK overall, it is encouraging to see the Mayor’s coordinated approach to this issue in London.
Chaired by Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy, the 16-member EV Infrastructure Taskforce was launched in May 2018. A year on, the group’s Delivery Plan will be launched in June 2018 and will help identify and deliver the level and type of charging infrastructure that London will need to accelerate the uptake of EVs up to 2025.
A strategic approach to deciding the type and location of charging infrastructure, rather than an ad-hoc reactive one, is important. Is it, for example, essential that all EV drivers have access to a rapid charge point close to their home? Probably not, even if that is what might be perceived as most convenient.
Decisions around EV charging provision in London will also need to sit within the context of wider transport targets, e.g. 80% of all trips to be made by walking, by cycle, or using public transport by 2041. Falling car ownership figures and less miles driven will also lower charging needs.
Further, we are already showing that we are getting a lot better at using existing grid and charging infrastructure in smarter ways. Whether that is smart charging technology paired with energy storage, as successfully commissioned and trialled in CRP’s Smart Electric Urban Logistics project, or by exploring how existing infrastructure can be shared between different user groups.
Sufficient charging infrastructure provision to enable an EV revolution will be a challenge. With a coordinated approach and innovative thinking, it does not have to be an insurmountable one.
