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CRP are delighted to support one of our partner BIDs The Northbank while we are resident in their area. They recently hosted a drop-in gardening event in partnership with Westminster City Council, encouraging workers in the area to take some time over their lunch breaks to plant some bulbs for all to enjoy in the spring. Stress accounted for 45% of all working days lost in 2016, and gardening has been to shown to help boost wellbeing, brain function and productivity as well as reducing stress and anxiety. CRP recognises the business benefits of employers providing working environments that support staff wellbeing, for example publishing a toolkit for Family Friendly Employment.

Deliver London’s Tom went to check out the latest event in Temple Gardens and is looking forward to seeing a flash of colour emerge in the spring.

There are plans for more regular events to commence in the spring. For more information contact Tom Linton-Smith.

The Green Capital Grant is Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new £2 million fund to create multi-beneficial green infrastructure. Benefits include reducing flooding risk, increasing biodiversity, improving walking and cycling and boosting public health.

Green Capital grants will be between £250,000 and £500,000 per project and should address social and environmental challenges such as air pollution, health or flooding.

Applications are now open and expressions of interests close on 19 February 2018. Cross River Partnership is ready to work with partners on potential collaborative applications if desired.

To find out more please get in touch with CRP’s Director, Susannah Wilks susannahwilks@crossriverpartnership.org.

The Central London Sub Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP) is a valuable forum for the exchange of ideas between central London boroughs. It is the sub-regional point of contact for Transport for London and funded by them. Through it, CRP facilitates and project manages innovative pilots, trials and research responding to emerging strategy.

CRP is thrilled to be working with our partners to be delivering a range of identified projects this year including;

A ‘walking tube/rail’ intervention at Billy Fury Way (London Borough of Camden) to enliven a ‘connector’ path between key stations, improving access, lighting and creating a sense of place
Phase 2 of a Market Delivery and Servicing Plan to deliver a range of improvements identified during Phase 1 (WeAreWaterloo BID/Lambeth Council and Angel BID /Islington Council)
Healthy Streets; delivering improvements to Ravenet Street (London Borough of Wandsworth) using the healthy streets check to measure the impact of interventions to improve the walking and cycling experience
A study on the impact of autonomous freight vehicles in central London
A study into securing grid infrastructure capacity for the electrification of commercial fleets
Continued support for the delivery of the Go Ultra Low City Scheme including supporting partner applications for Round 2 of the Neighbourhood of the Future
Continued support of the Central London Freight Quality Partnership (CLFQP)

The work of the CLSRTP aims to create a benchmark of best practice that can be applied pan-London and highlights the benefits of partnership-focused delivery.

For further information, please contact CRP’s Uto Patrick

We are thrilled that on 23^rd November CRP’s FREVUE project has won a second award: the National Air Quality Award for the Freight Transport Initiative of the Year 2017!

The National Air Quality Awards are organised by AirQualityNews.com in partnership with Daimler Trucks. In the category Freight Transport Air Quality Initiative of the Year the following organisations were shortlisted: CNG Fuels for saving tonnes in CO2 emissions for HGV fleets; Croydon Council for their work on air quality and freight; Kuehne+Nagel for their Whitbread Clean Fuel Food Logistics as well as CRP’s FREVUE project. Winning this second award comes on the back of the LowCVP Low Carbon Road Transport Initiative of the Year Award in October.

The 4.5-year FREVUE (Freight Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe) project that was finalised in September 2017 deployed 80 fully electric freight vehicles (EFVs) across a range of logistics operations in eight European cities. The vehicles ranged from car-derived vans of under 3.5 tonnes to highly innovative 18-tonne trucks. In London, 16 UPS diesel delivery trucks were converted to electric as part of the project and are still in operation today. In addition, Clipper Logistics deployed a 10-tonne delivery truck from the Regent Street Crown Estate consolidation centre in central London. The overall project was co-ordinated by CRP.

For more information, please contact the CRP FREVUE Co-ordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, see www.frevue.eu or follow the project on twitter @FREVUE_project.

The Mayor of London is seeking feedback on his proposal to extend the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to the North and South Circular roads in 2021.

The proposed extension is in addition to the Mayor’s recent decision to bring forward the start date for the ULEZ in central London to April 2019.

The Mayor is also proposing to tighten the standards of the existing London-wide Low Emission Zone from 2020, which affects heavy vehicles – buses, coaches and HGVs and other heavy specialist vehicles.

Find out more and have your say on TfL’s consultations webpage.

CRP’s deliverBEST business support service has now helped over 200 business reduce emissions from their operations.

Businesses have received recommendations to make deliveries to and from their sites more efficient, via the online deliverBEST tool (www.deliverBEST.london), at CRP-facilitated workshops and with bespoke, 1:1 support from CRP’s deliverBEST team.

In Southwark, CRP are working with Better Bankside to support BID members including The Bridge Charity, the London Fire Brigade and Great Portland Estates. With Victoria BID, CRP are working with Land Securities and Grosvenor to support co-ordinated action in multi-tenanted buildings.

CRP’s deliverBEST team is also working with the Marylebone LEN, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea Councils to support better air quality across central London.

Contact CRP’s Business Engagement Officer, Sefinat Otaru, for more information.

The Ultra-Low Emission Zone expansion North-South circular is now out for consultation!

The Mayor proposes ULEZ standards to also apply to buses, coaches and lorries from October 2020 and expansion up to North and South circular road for all vehicles from October 2021.

Respond to the proposal and have your say here. Public consultation is open until 28th February 2018.

For more information please get in touch with Transport Project Officer, Shanon Lim.

Poor air quality is one of London’s top public health issues, contributing to the premature deaths of 10,000 Londoners each year. In 2016 Westminster City Council successfully applied for funding for the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) to try to tackle the issue with a series of innovative interventions to improve air quality.

Marylebone is home to a number of hospitals, many of which operate their own fleets of ambulances and other vehicles. As people using hospitals are often more vulnerable to the effects of air pollution, it is crucial that their route in to hospital is as clean as possible. One contributor to poor air quality in urban areas is the effect of unnecessary vehicle engine idling. The Marylebone LEN is engaging with hospital fleet drivers and others fleet drivers to try to reduce the amount of engine idling.

Cross River Partnership was commissioned to produce an anti-idling video to be used for training purposes and to share online, highlighting the damaging health impact, busting the myths about vehicle engine idling and making the case for positive behaviour change.

There is also a shorter version of this video available, for a wider fleet/driver audience here: https://youtu.be/jE6ynSc2iqE

Share this video using the hashtags #DontBeIdle, #careforair and #MaryleboneLEN.

To find out more information about the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood visit www.maryleboneLEN.org or contact Deliver London Programme Manager Vicky Keeble.

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CRP partner Heart of London Business Alliance crowned Shake Shack in Leicester Square as winners of their Recycle Week competition. A big thank you to Shake Shack for taking part and pledging to recycle more food waste. By recycling more and producing less waste it also helps to reduce the number of vehicles on our roads needed to collect rubbish, therefore improving air quality in The West End. Heart of London were proud to give five goodie bags to hard-working staff with a selection of the team receiving a range of recycled materials, treats and keep-cups. Keep up the great work!

For further information please contact Christina Wells.

CRP’s innovative disability employment initiative CamdenAbility delivered in partnership with Business Disability Forum, is funded by Camden Council and supported by the Department of Work and Pensions.

Apleona at the Francis Crick Institute has recently supported the project to recruit a new starter for their housekeeping team.

Apleona are a cleaning and maintenance contractor at the Francis Crick Institute in St Pancras. They joined CamdenAbility in order to review their disability policy and work with the project to create a new recruitment strategy to attract local, job-ready disabled candidates.

Apleona agreed to implement a flexible approach and adapted their normal recruitment process, removing a number of barriers presented by the process for applicants with additional needs. Rather than relying entirely on the results of a competency based interview, Apleona met with a local CamdenAbility candidate, Joseph, for an informal meeting, progressing to a short work trial where he was able to demonstrate his ability, and be assessed for the role.

Joseph, 39, has a learning disability and had never worked before registering with CamdenAbility in June. After the successful work trial, he was offered a permanent position and began working. CamdenAbility also supported Apleona by advising on small adjustments needed in order for Joseph to understand and fulfil his daily tasks.

On working with CamdenAbility on their recruitment, Sharon Guilfoyle, Account Manager at Apleona said:
“Joseph is a pleasure to have in our team, he is always smiling. Joseph works very hard. Working with CamdenAbility is an easy process. There is lots of support.”

To find out more about the CamdenAbility project, please contact CRP’s Specialist Workplace Coordinator Parma Sira.

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Lunchtime Gardening

Green Capital Grant Opportunities

CLSRTP

More Award Success for FREVUE

Mayor’s ULEZ Extension Proposals

deliverBEST Business Engagement

Have your say on the Ultra-Low Emission Zone Expansion

Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood – Anti-idling video

Recycle Week Competition Winners!

CamdenAbility and the Francis Crick Institute