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On 24^th 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 2^nd February and will share a draft consultation response with its partners prior to the final submission due by 2^nd March 2018. For further information, please contact CRP Director Susannah Wilks.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

CRP are delighted to announce the renewal of CamdenAbility, our innovative disability employment initiative. The project is funded by the London Borough of Camden, delivered in partnership with Business Disability Forum and works with a network of local employers to improve disability standards and create opportunities for Camden residents with disabilities.

CamdenAbility launched in February 2017 and delivered some fantastic results in our successful first year of delivery:

Established a network of 23 employers committed to improving disability confidence and recruit local residents with disabilities
13 jobs created by supporting and advising employers to make reasonable adjustments for candidates with disabilities, including learning disabilities, autism, sensory impairment and long term health conditions.
11 work placements have been arranged
11 days of free tailored specialist consultancy delivered
6 disability training workshops delivered and 3 employer network meetings held

Now in its second year, CamdenAbility will create even more jobs for our disabled candidates, encourage greater engagement from our employers through a comprehensive events schedule that will include site tours, work shadowing and reverse job fairs, deliver even more tailored training and consultancy to improve disability standards and grow our network of committed employers.

To find out more about the project, please contact CRP’s Specialist Workplace Coordinator Parma Sira at parmasira @crossriverpartnership.org

Recruit London Event-Tuesday 6 February 2018

Recruit London will be hosting a breakfast event on Tuesday 6 February for Heart of London Business Alliance members to promote this innovative, bespoke and free recruitment service. Business members will be provided with the opportunity to meet the team and gain more knowledge and a better understanding of the Recruit London initiative.

We are delighted that Councillor Robert Davis, Westminster City Council Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Business, Culture and Heritage is attending as the keynote speaker at the event.

Claude Abi-Gerges, Director of Capital Arches Group, will share his recent experience working with Recruit London and explain the benefits of this scheme for his business.

We hope that the Recruit London breakfast event will encourage business members to join the scheme and we will be able to deliver more employment opportunities for local people.

For further information, please contact Workplace Co-ordinator Ilona Wilk.

Archives: News Articles

London Plan Event

17/18 CLSTRP Achievements

Walking and cycling statistics

Shake Shack Recruitment

Low Emission Logistics – Next steps

2017/18 Closing of Accounts

Air Quality Monitoring in the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood

A Deliveries and Servicing Action Plan for the West End

CamdenAbility renewed for 2018!

Recruit London Event-Tuesday 6 February 2018