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Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood working in partnership towards a healthier, greener city

16th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

St. Mary's Bryanston Square for City for All

The Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) was established in 2016 as a partnership between Westminster City Council, residents’ groups, local landowners and business improvement districts to tackle the challenge of air pollution in innovative ways.

Partnership working is key to delivering on that ambition, and this was showcased at the launch of the Council’s City for All Vision on 12th July at the recently refurbished Old Marylebone Town Hall. The LEN demonstrated the impact of partnership working in action, to make a healthier, greener city, with particular reference to the outcomes of the school engagement programme which is part of the LEN.

The school engagement programme offers a series of engaging, interactive lessons, delivered by experts Sustrans, for schools in Marylebone on the topic of air quality. Other initiatives include temporary street closures for school play streets with pop-up parklets, pedal-powered smoothie makers, and cycle and scooting skill sessions.

The Marylebone LEN was established after a successful bid by Westminster City Council to the Mayor of London’s Mayor’s Air Quality Fund. Cross River Partnership programme manages the LEN on behalf of the Council.

To find out more about the LEN visit www.MaryleboneLEN.org or contact CRP’s Tom Linton-Smith.

 

CRP’s Clean Air Together Exhibition

16th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP’s first ever exhibition, Clean Air Together, is enjoying a successful run at the NLA Galleries. The exhibition has inspired dozens of pledges from individuals and businesses committed to working together to clean London’s air.

CRP is very grateful to its sponsors, the Mayor of London, The Northbank BID, and The Crown Estate, for helping to make the exhibition possible.

The free exhibition continues at NLA Galleries, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street WC1E 7BT until 30th July 2018.  It is also open on Saturdays.

For more information please contact CRP’s Brendon Harper.

Award for CRP’s Clean Air Walking and Cycling Routes

16th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP recently received the inaugural Accessibility Award from the Association of Town and City Management (ATCM) for our clean air walking and cycling routes work.  The ATCM Awards showcase best practice on key issues across the UK and Ireland and identify successful projects that they think local and national government and other key stakeholders should be aware of.

Find out more about CRP’s clean air walking and cycling routes work at www.cleanairroutes.london

Business Green Leaders Awards

16th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

We are very glad to announce that on 27 June the Smart Electric Urban Logistics (SEUL) project has won the Business Green Leaders Innovation of the Year Award.

Green Leaders Awards

The Business Green Leaders Awards that are now in their 8th year celebrate the UK’s leading green businesses and the progress these have made in incorporating sustainable business models and clean technologies into their operations.

CRP partner UPS had put forward the SEUL project, which is successfully implementing innovative smart charging technology to overcome grid capacity constraints as a barrier to the large-scale take-up of electric freight vehicles.

For more information, please see the project webpage here or contact CRP’s Programme Manager Electric Freight Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

CRP is recruiting!

4th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP is currently recruiting for a Business Engagement Officer to join our Deliver London team to work on our Clean Air Villages, DEFRA-funded project.

To find out more about the role and to apply, please click here

Please contact Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer for further information.

Smart Electric Urban Logistics Launch Event

3rd July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

At the UPS Sustainable Logistics event on 19 June Smart Electric Urban Logistics (SEUL) partners invited stakeholders, funders and partners to officially launch the project. Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy, opened the event underlining the importance of the electrification of fleets in addressing London’s air pollution and the role a unique project such as SEUL plays in paving the way.

SEUL launch

Taking place in an operational logistics setting at the UPS central London depot in Camden, the event allowed stakeholders to fully explore the challenges and opportunities around the electrification of fleets and low impact city logistics. At three stands, partners presented and discussed various elements of this work: 1) The UPS EV journey; 2) The smarter use of our electricity grid to enable fleet electrification and 3) low impact city logistics through the use of an electrically assisted delivery trailer.

CRP will further share the SEUL learnings over the coming year through factsheets, events and webinars. For more information, please see the project webpage here or contact CRP’s Programme Manager Electric Freight Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

 

The Mayor’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Taskforce

20th June 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP has been invited to join the Mayor’s new Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Taskforce chaired by Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy.

The 16-member Taskforce was launched on 31 May 2018. It will provide guidance on how to implement the Mayor’s vision of a zero emission transport network by 2050, focusing on the lack of electric vehicle charging infrastructure that remains an important barrier to the take-up of EVs.

EVI_Taskforce

Based on previous and ongoing work such as FREVUE, Smart Electric Urban Logistics as well as our recent report on Electric Freight Vehicles in Central London: Local Grid Capacity, CRP will be glad to contribute to the Taskforce discussions feeding into a shared EV Infrastructure Delivery Plan to be published next year.

For more information please see the GLA’s press release or contact CRP’s Programme Manager Electric Freight Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

CLSTRP and the LIP Process

20th June 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

London boroughs are currently in the process of drafting their Local Implementation Plans (LIPs). Each London borough is required to develop a LIP which sets out how the borough will deliver the 2018 Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS) at a local level.

These are the third round of LIP development and the guidance documents provided by Transport for London, which have been published alongside the MTS.

The CRP-managed Central London Sub-regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP) will be hosting a special collaborative LIP meeting in July. This will enable the group to identify cross boundary issues that cut across all the central London boroughs e.g. air quality, traffic reduction and network planning etc. The meeting will allow for robust discussions and identify any potential for aligning policies. We will extend the invitation to include the London Boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets.

Borough partners will then have the opportunity after the meeting to view CRP’s Clean Air Together exhibition that is running until 30th July at the New London Architecture (NLA) exhibition centre. Officers will be encouraged to make pledges on how they can contribute towards improving London’s air quality.

For further information, contact CRP’s Uto Patrick

What should the UK do to improve air quality?

18th June 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Our Air Quality Project Manager, Brendon Harper is in this month’s ‘The Environment’ Magazine answering the question “What should the UK do to improve air quality?”

On Page 23 Brendon makes the case for tackling air pollution from every angle – and involving everyone from the public sector, businesses and individuals.

You can contact Brendon at brendonharper@crossriverpartnership.org.

Clean Air Together Event

18th June 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The CRP team are looking forward to seeing many partners at our Clean Air Together event 6:30om – 8:30pm this Thursday 21 June. Led by Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for the Environment and Energy, the evening will celebrate and inspire collective action to clean London’s air. RSVP now if you haven’t already.

The event will be held at New London Architecture’s Store Street Galleries, WC1E 7BT, the location of CRP’s Clean Air Together Exhibition, on now until 30 July.

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