Thames Air Quality Strategy Response

1st February 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP has provided a response to the Port of London Authority’s (PLA’s) Draft Air Quality Strategy for the Tidal Thames. Our response draws on our experience delivering electric freight and freight consolidation projects across central London.

PLA Consultation

CRP fully supports the PLA’s ambition to encourage a level of air quality from the river above that set by legal requirements and the drafting of its first Air Quality Strategy. In particular, CRP appreciates the strategy’s coherence with the Mayor’s Environment and Transport strategies and their aim to shift freight onto the River Thames.

For more information, please contact CRP’s Programme Manager Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

Haringey and Air Quality

1st February 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP is very happy to have been selected to start the Air Quality Business Engagement project for London Borough of Haringey, focusing on the Crouch End area.

Haringey

As part of this project, CRP will engage with Crouch End businesses through an online survey and face-to-face support. Data will be gathered on current delivery and servicing as well as business travel patterns. Proposed actions will come out of the data and will include an air quality action infosheet as well as cycle safety and business air quality seminars.

Through this work, CRP will support Haringey in making Crouch End a cleaner, healthier place by improving local air quality, supporting active travel and helping to reduce business energy and transport costs.

For more information, please contact CRP’s Programme Manager Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

London Plan Event

1st February 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

On 24th January 2018, CRP hosted a Draft London Plan consultation event together with the Association of Town and City Management (ATCM), kindly hosted by Team London Bridge.

Draft London Plan event_Speakers

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, released the new draft London Plan in late 2017. The draft sets out an integrated economic, environmental, transport and social framework for the development of London to 2041 to deliver the Mayor’s vision for good growth. The well-attended consultation event gave Business Improvement District (BID) partners and Local Authority members the opportunity to discuss the draft and to feed into a joint CRP/ATCM response.

Speakers included (from left): Ojay MacDonald from the ATCM;  CRP Co-Chair Simon Pitkeathley from Camden Town Unlimited and Euston Town; Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe; and CRP Co-Chair Councillor Wendy Hyde from the City of London Corporation.

CRP welcomes comments on the draft London Plan until 2nd February and will share a draft consultation response with its partners prior to the final submission due by 2nd March 2018. For further information, please contact CRP Director Susannah Wilks.

17/18 CLSTRP Achievements

31st January 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The Central London Sub Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP) has started the new calendar year with immediate actions to get the delivery of the identified projects going.

We are thrilled to be commencing the Phase 2 Market Delivery and Servicing Plan projects. CRP will be working with support from LB Islington market officer and Angel BID to survey the market traders and food businesses along Chapel Market to determine how best to consolidate the removal of waste oil.

A similar activity is also planned for Lower Marsh Market with partnership support from WeAreWaterloo BID and Lambeth Council. This scheme is looking at packaging use by traders and businesses. The aim is to encourage less waste and a potential move to reusable packaging.

The study into the impact of Autonomous freight vehicles is coming to an end with a wide range of recommendations and in depth insight already highlighted.

CRP continues to project manage innovative research, pilots and trials responding to emerging strategy and guidance. We are currently working with partners to generate schemes that create healthy spaces across central London for 2018/19.

For further information, please contact CRP’s Uto Patrick

Walking and cycling statistics

31st January 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The Department for Transport has published walking and cycling statistics in England for 2016, including the proportion of adults participating at a local authority level. The data is segmented into walking and cycling for travel and for leisure. These statistics are based on results from the Active Lives Survey and the National Travel Survey.

There is an interactive map that allows a view of your local authority to get a graphical representation of activity level.

The Central London Sub-regional Transport Partnership boroughs are in the process of drafting their Local Implementation Plans. Datasets like these are useful to gain a picture of what further delivery of initiatives is needed to improve walking and cycling levels.

Transport for London has published their Travel in London report 10. Travel in London is TfL’s annual publication that summarises trends and developments relating to travel and transport in London. Its principal function is to describe how travel in London is changing and provide an interpretative overview of progress towards implementing the transport and other related strategies of the Mayor of London, to inform future policy development and provides an evidence base.

Shake Shack Recruitment

31st January 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP’s Recruit London service recently arranged a day of interviews for Shake Shack restaurant in Covent Garden.  With 8 job offers being made based on interviews with 9 candidates.  Shake Shack were very impressed with the standard of applicants and are holding another round of interviews, working with Recruit London again.  The restaurant is within the Capco area, one of the funders of the Recruit London project.

 

Valbone (see photo) is one of the local unemployed residents of Westminster who was very excited to be offered a job by the restaurant.  Valbone has been working with the Recruit London team since December and has found it difficult to find work that fits around childcare for her daughter.  Shake Shack demonstrate their commitment to family friendly working practices by offering hours that are workable for single parents.

 

For further information please contact CRP’s Kate Fenton.

 

Low Emission Logistics – Next steps

31st January 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

It has been a busy month for the Low Emission Logistics project!  The Interim Report which contained key analysis on deliveries and servicing undertaken by CRP was presented to the partner boroughs at the beginning of January. The engagement surveys for Greenwich, Southwark, Wandsworth, Croydon and Hammersmith & Fulham will remain open until the end of January.  CRP has been coordinating business engagement with partner BIDs and Town Centre managers and Andy Martin recently went to present the project at the Hammersmith BID Transport Forum.

CRP has also been working on simple high-impact solutions to reduce logistics-related emissions in the target hotspot areas.  CRP has met a design agency based at the South Bank who are already pioneering low emission deliveries to create a good-practice case study.  CRP has also begun organising a workshop with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the museums and colleges based on Exhibition Road which will take place next month.

For further information please contact CRP’s Andy Martin or Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

2017/18 Closing of Accounts

31st January 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

As part of Westminster City Council’s end of financial year on 31st March 2018, CRP will also be closing its accounts early this year. CRP’s deadline for the receipt of all supplier invoices will be 28th February 2018, to enable us to meet Westminster’s closing deadlines. The CRP team will be in touch with project partners soon to provide more details.

CRP will publish its own accounts early in April 2018.

With any financial queries please contact CRP’s Operations Manager, Carol Quamina.

Air Quality Monitoring in the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood

30th January 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The start of 2018 has seen the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) focus on the prominent issue of air quality. With support from Marble Arch BID, Baker Street Quarter Partnership and Westminster City Council’s Air Quality Marshals as well as LEN chair Councillor David Harvey, we were able to take the first step in monitoring and evaluating local air quality in the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood.

A fixed 3 mile walking route around Marylebone was chosen to measure air quality over two weeks in January. Funded by TfL and the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund, the LEN has been using state-of-the-art equipment from King’s College London. The portable air quality monitor carried in a rucksack has been measuring the local “hotspots” of black carbon and other ultraviolet particulate matter, which can be strong indicators of harmful emissions from some diesel vehicles. The data collected will be used to compare future air quality walks that will take place throughout the remainder of the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood programme.

To find out more about the LEN, or to find out about how to get involved in the project, get in touch with CRP’s Vicky Keeble or Tom Linton-Smith.

A Deliveries and Servicing Action Plan for the West End

30th January 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The West End Partnership (WEP) Deliveries & Servicing Group has been busy at work developing the Deliveries & Servicing Plan for the West End.  The success of the significant urban realm and transport schemes of key importance to WEP stakeholders (such as arrival of the Elizabeth Line this year) is dependent on deliveries and servicing being tackled differently.   Business as usual is no longer an option if freight is to support the development of the West End.

 

This plan will help us to deliver our combined vision to ‘Ensure the safe, clean and efficient movement of goods and services that deliver for residents, visitors and businesses in London’s West End.’

 

The group, formed of London Borough of Camden, City of Westminster, West End Business Improvement Districts; Estates; TfL; Logistics operators and residents have fed into the draft plan by CRP, which details potential actions to be led by different WEP partners.

 

For more information on WEP Deliveries and Servicing contact CRP’s Tom Linton-Smith tomlintonsmith@crossriverpartnership.org or Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org