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CRP was honoured to present a session on ‘Walking’ at this well-attended Urban Design London (UDL) conference on 11th July 2017. Other speakers included: Better Bankside, Danielle Cohen; City of London Corporation, Iain Simmons; Transport for London and Westminster City Council, Sam Monck; Transport for London, Dan Johnson and Paul Strang; Westminster City Council, Graham King.

Delegates received CRP’s new Walkable London Toolkit very well.

CRP looks forward to looking at the full detail of the Mayor’s draft Transport Strategy and its potential impact on central London.

New West End Company has launched the world’s first smart street featuring a range of technology initiatives and retail pop-ups.

Bird Street, off Oxford Street has been improved into a ‘traffic free, innovative, experimental outdoor retail and leisure space’. It is a collaboration between New West End Company and some technology and retail experts to demonstrate the sustainability of future high streets.

Bird Street features a rotating mix of retail, food and leisure pop-ups in addition to ‘Pavegen’, the electricity generating paving tiles. The street also has the ‘CleanAir Bench’ and initiative from Airlabs which allows visitors to sit and relax in a space of fresh and filtered air with real-time air quality monitoring technology on site. The pop-up retail units were painted with ‘Airlite paint’ which is able to purify the air of noxious gases and harmful bacteria.

New West End Company CEO, Jace Tyrrell: “The concept behind Bird Street is sustainable energy, better air quality and innovation.”

After almost a year away, it has been great to return to work and observe the changes that have occurred:

CRP’s profile has increased along with the exciting range of projects that are being delivered on behalf of our partners. I have seen updates on Twitter, statements in the Evening standard, interviews on London Live, to name a few.
The CRP team has expanded, with an organic shift into two key programmes under which the projects fall; Deliver London and Recruit London.
There has been a concerted push to utilise the specialisms within the team and offer ever better value to our partners in terms of consultancy style work.

All this clearly demonstrates that CRP is living its mission statement of ‘Delivering London’s Future Together’.

I look forward to continuing to work with CRP partners.

For more information contact CRP’s Uto Patrick

This July London’s Waterloo celebrates a month of food with a packed programme of exciting events hosted by the area’s vibrant mix of food and drink venues. Waterloo’s top chefs, foodies and baristas will be revealing their secrets and techniques in a month of exclusive master classes, demos, talks, workshops and tasting sessions.

Waterloo Food Month is championed by We Are Waterloo BID and takes place at Lower Marsh and Granby Place – Waterloo’s new outdoor events space.

Find out what’s on here: wearewaterloo.co.uk/foodmonth

FitzPark located on Windmill Street in Fitzrovia is a temporary space which transforms a delivery bay into a ‘parklet’ containing seating and planters for public use.

The pop-up demonstrates how small spaces can be adapted to provide people friendly uses, promoting health and wellbeing through encouraging people to walk, cycle and spend more time outdoors.

The parklet aims to raise awareness about the benefits of urban greening and small scale and temporary public space improvements, which will hopefully inspire positive action towards creating healthy streets.

The project was delivered by The Fitzrova Partnership BID with support from LB Camden and Cross River Partnership, and funding through the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund.

To find out more get in touch with CRP’s Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP attended the Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards, held on 6th July at Vintners’ Hall, London. The Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards showcase flexible and family friendly workplaces across the UK.

CRP sponsored the best flexible working initiative category. The award was presented by Anna Elliott (Recruit London Programme Manager) and Carol Quamina (CRP Operations Manager) to the category winner – Alexander Mann Solutions, a talent acquisition and management company who last year launched a global flexible working programme to increase the take-up and consistency of flexible working.

Further information about Working Families and other Top Employer award categories, winners and case studies can be found here: http://www.topemployersforworkingfamilies.org.uk/index.php/news/entry/the-top-employers-for-working-families-special-award-winners-are-unveiled.

The Good Growth Fund is Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new £70 million regeneration programme to support growth and community development in London.

Working with the London Economic Action Partnership (LEAP), the fund will support projects that are: inclusive, innovative and which demonstrate an outstanding approach to challenges faced across London.

Applications are now open and expressions of interests close on 4 September 2017. CRP is already working with partners on a potential collaborative application.

To find out more get in touch with CRP’s Project Manager, Brendon Harper brendonharper@crossriverpartnership.org, or Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

The draft Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS) is now out for consultation. The draft strategy uses the Healthy Streets Approach. This makes health and personal experience the priority as we plan our city. The Healthy Streets Approach will be applied to the whole transport system to help create:

– Healthy Streets and healthy people

– A good public transport experience

– New homes and jobs

Transport networks make cities work – connecting communities, opening up opportunities, and creating conditions for a prosperous economy. The draft MTS looks 25 years ahead to find ways to plan London’s growth.

Consultation closes on 2 October 2017.

To find out more get in touch with CRP’s Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

The London Assembly (LA) holds the Mayor to account and investigates issues that matter to Londoners. The LA has just released a number of recommendations as part of their Park life: ensuring green spaces remain a hit with Londoners report.

The report highlights that London is a green city. In fact almost half of it is classed as green space – including domestic gardens, public parks and sports fields. Green spaces provide areas to exercise and socialise, and provides space for London’s wildlife. But we need to find ways to economically sustain our city’s green spaces.

Amongst the recommendations are innovative ways to fund and manage London’s green spaces such as through trusts, and sponsorship.

To find out more get in touch with CRP’s Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

Councillor Robert Davis, Deputy Leader of Westminster City Council, hosted a launch event for the Westminster Employment Service on 13^th July 2017 at the House of St Barnabas (HOSB). Councillor Davis praised the Recruit London team for their tireless work to support local residents into work and their impressive results to date. Anna Elliott, CRP’s Recruit London Programme Manager, also spoke at the event to encourage businesses to use Recruit London to help them fill vacancies. Anna asked businesses to offer additional opportunities including tours of their businesses, mentoring or mock interviews for residents and work placements to help those with additional barriers.

The event attendees also heard from Sandra Schembri, Chief Encouragement Officer for HOSB and Stefan Georgescu, General Manager for Benugo. Finally, attendees heard from Erica Naidoo who is a beneficiary of the Westminster Employment Service, who inspired the crowd with her story and encouraged businesses to get more involved. There was a great buzz following the speeches and the Recruit London team are busy following up new contacts.

For further information please contact Anna Elliott, Recruit London Programme Manager: 020 7641 3523

Archives: News Articles

UDL Event on central London: its streets and public spaces

Bird Street… fresh air, ethical shops and bird song

CRP 1 year on…

It’s Waterloo Food month!

#FitzPark is on the ground

Top Employers for Working Families Awards

Good Growth Fund

Have your say on the draft Mayor’s Transport Strategy

Park life: ensuring green spaces remain a hit with Londoners

Recruit London play a key role at Westminster Employment Service Launch Event