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Overcoming London’s Barriers

12th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

London is quickly running out of easy places to build, leaving remaining sites often divided by physical barriers, such as road or rail, and artificial barriers, such as borough boundaries and ‘red lines’ that delineate estates. The Future of London has launched its Overcoming Barriers Report which looks at innovative and effective approaches to overcoming these barriers.

The report uses Cross River Partnership’s 2002 project as a great example of reframing railways. With support from local authorities, the Single Regeneration Budget, TfL, Network Rail, the Railways Heritage Trust and the London Development Agency, ‘CRP deep-cleaned several railway arches and underpasses near the South Bank and illuminated them with public art and/or lighting, making them more inviting as walking routes. Other arches were turned into retail units.’

Read the report here.

2018 Successes!

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP is very pleased to have won all of these awards with and for our partners during 2018, in recognition of the innovative projects that we are delivering together in London.

We look forward to continuing to design and deliver exciting partnership projects together with our public, private and community partners throughout 2019 and beyond.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

Susannah and The CRP Team

TfL Bus Review Consultation

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP have submitted a strategic response to the Transport for London (TfL) consultation on the proposed changes to bus routes in central London. TfL’s proposed changes will look to simplify the bus network and as well as improve efficiency.

The response was developed in collaboration with CRP partner boroughs and BIDs. It requests that the TfL bus review focus on improving air quality, reliability and reducing congestion.  In addition:

“CRP is committed to contributing positively to shaping the revised bus service to be as efficient, effective and economical as it can be for as many Londoners as possible.”

CRP will wait to hear the analysis of the TfL Bus Review consultation responses.

Please contact Susannah Wilks for further information.

Crouch End – Air Quality Business Engagement Project

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Cross River Partnership (CRP) has recently delivered for the London Borough of Haringey an air quality business engagement project, between February and November 2018.

Working towards Haringey’s air quality improvement efforts, CRP has been engaging with local businesses in Crouch End to help raise awareness of air pollution amongst the business community and reduce individual business emissions.

Over the past 10 months a total of 59 businesses completed an air quality survey and 24 businesses have had one-to-one in-depth discussions with CRP regarding their practises.

Suggestions for solutions included the implementation of low/zero emission delivery vehicles, the introduction of a low emission preferred supplier scheme and the opportunity for businesses to be able to re-time deliveries to quieter periods.

For more information, please contact Kiran Kumar.

TfL Freight Forum

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP was pleased to attend a lively TfL Freight Forum earlier this week, hosted by the City of London Corporation. The annual forum brings together freight and logistics operators, business groups, boroughs and TfL to discuss all things freight in London.

This year’s forum focussed on the Mayor’s Vision Zero and TfL’s Freight Action Plan, which will be launched in the new year. CRP has contributed to the development of the Plan through membership on TfL’s Freight Policy Advisory Panel and Freight External Partners Group.

For further information please contact CRP’s Brendon Harper.

Laura Jacklin – Business Engagement Officer

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Laura joined CRP earlier this month and will be working with us as a Business Engagement Officer within the Deliver London team, focusing on the Clean Air Villages project.

Laura previously spent over 4 years working with large corporations on their sustainability strategies focusing on sustainable modes of transport in an international business park, and working with a food retailer’s sustainability policies.

Please contact Laura Jacklin for further information.

Recruit London – Performance for November 2018

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The Recruit London Programme is managed by Cross River Partnership and delivered in partnership with organisations including Westminster Council, The Crown Estate, Capital & Counties CG Ltd, The Heart of London Business Alliance, and Camden Council’s CamdenAbility Project.

For the month of November 2018, Recruit London as a whole achieved the following:

  • 82 candidate registrations, of which 38 have been unemployed for 12 months or more;
  • 27 receiving interim support; a reflection of the increased number of long term unemployed on our caseloads;
  • 31 job starts; and
  • 1 job sustained for six months, with more to come as we wait for evidence for sustained numbers.

On average, employers in the West End will spend upwards of £3,000 per person on recruitment; including HR recruitment time, different stages of interviews and inductions. Recruit London is a free service that will screen, train and place job ready people into employment, thus saving the employer over £3,000 on recruitment fees.

For further information on CRP’s Recruit London service, please do not hesitate to contact CRP Sylvia Kankasa.

Capital Arches Group Opportunities

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Capital Arches Group Ltd have strongly supported CRP’s partnership Recruit London initiative by offering employment opportunities to many Westminster residents across all of their McDonald’s Restaurants. We have organised regular recruitment open days which has enabled local job seekers to visit the restaurant and learn more about the local business. This gave the candidates the opportunity to improve their interview performance, boosted their confidence and enhanced their job prospects. Through our partnership we have been able to place over 33 people into employment with very good success stories. The employer is very accommodating to those with mental and physical disabilities and supports individuals to develop the key skills, sustain employment and progress further within their career. This has proven invaluable to us and those facing long-term unemployment. We look forward to continue working with Capital Arches Group Ltd in 2019.

Carolina Costa Kanwar, Head of Operations Support at Capital Arches Group Ltd:

“The recruitment service from Recruit London is fantastic and the team is always very helpful and supportive. Ilona has visited us a few times and she has a real understanding of our business and our hiring needs and has helped us to recruit a number of residents across many of our restaurants.”

For further information please contact Recruit London’s Ilona Wilk.

Clean Air Villages – Workshops Completed

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The Clean Air Villages project continues and CRP are pleased to report that a total of 20 Air Quality seminars have been completed, 2 in each village. The seminars were an opportunity for local businesses to come and discuss local issues about deliveries and servicing and to find out about ways in which they could save time and money whilst also improving local air quality.  With business attendees ranging from sole traders to national chains, and with help from local Councillors, CRP has built up a picture of each local village and their individual issues.  CRP is in the process of meeting with each borough to brainstorm over the local recommendations which will be made and implemented within each village.  Meetings with Lambeth and Islington have already taken place.  Meetings with Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Lewisham are due to take place in the coming weeks.

CRP are continuing with 121 business engagement across all five boroughs.  As we move into 2019, the village solutions will be put into action and CRP will be hard at work producing case studies.

For further information, please contact CRP’s Business Engagement Officer, Kate Fenton.

CRP Christmas Break

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP wishes all its partners, colleagues and customers a joyful Christmas!  Our office will be closing for the Christmas break on Friday 21st of December 2018, and we will be re-opening on Wednesday 2nd of January 2019.  If you have any urgent queries over that period, please do not hesitate to contact Susannah Wilks.  Ho ho ho!

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