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With the release of the Illuminated River concept designs due on 9th November 2016, the shortlisted teams are busy working on their concepts in time for the unveiling.

The six finalist teams are:
• Adjaye Associates with Chris Ofili, Thukral & Tagra, Doug Aitken, AKTII, HPF (Hurley Palmer Flatt), Four Communications, DP9, Plan A and DHA Designs
• AL_A with Asif Kapadia, Simon Stephens, SEAM Design and GROSS.MAX
• Diller Scofidio + Renfro with L’Observatoire International, Arup, Transsolar, Jennifer Tipton and Oliver Beer
• Les Éclairagistes Associés with ecqi, ewo, Federico Pietrella, and GVA Lighting Europe
• Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands with Future\Pace, Leo Villareal, Pentagram, Price & Myers, Atelier Ten, Beckett Rankine and Core Five
• Sam Jacob Studio and Simon Heijdens with Electrolight, Daisy Froud and Elliott Wood

Concept designs will be displayed in an open public exhibition from 9th – 29th November 2016 at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank, with the winners announced on 7th December 2016. Good luck everyone!

Click here for further information.

CRP is providing project management services to The Fitzrovia Partnership BID to deliver its ambitious sustainability objectives.

Jane Overington, CRP’s resident Transport Project Officer, is working in-house with The Fitzrovia Partnership to continue the delivery of their freight consolidation, and commercial waste and recycling schemes. Jane is championing a cleaner, greener Fitzrovia with high quality public realm additionally addressing air quality issues.

This initiative continues CRP’s cross-functional and multi-agency agenda; supporting Business Improvement Districts, boroughs, the Greater London Authority and Transport for London to make London a great place to live, work and do business.

The Living Wage Week is being held 31st October to 5th November 2016. During this week, the new London Living Wage for the year ahead will be announced by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, who has said “paying the London Living Wage should be a badge of honour for employers – and it makes good business sense too. As well as making a real difference to their employees’ quality of life, businesses experience significant benefits through increased productivity and reduced staff turnover.”

The wage is currently £9.40 per hour, enabling those working and living in London to pay for the essentials they need to live, and cope with unforeseen circumstances. Employers can sign up to become a Living Wage Employer to demonstrate their commitment to supporting their workforce.

We encourage employers to pay the London Living Wage, as know through our Recruit London project that paying this helps businesses attract and retain the best staff, makes people feel valued for the work they are doing and means work is a genuine route out of poverty.

Find out more at: http://www.livingwage.org.uk/living-wage-week
To find out more about Recruit London, visit www.recruitlondon.org.uk

CRP’s Greening the BIDs video produced with design agency Hudson Fuggle has won a Silver Award in the EVCOM 2016 Clarion Awards. Well done to all partners and funders involved, including the GLA, Drain London, TfL and Natural England! Click here to view the prize winning video.

CRP welcomes London’s new Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy, Shirley Rodrigues, who started in the role earlier this month.

The new Deputy Mayor is leading the Mayor’s programme for ‘a greener, cleaner London’ and has responsibility for air quality and greening – two areas which CRP and our partners are very active in.

We look forward to continuing to support the Mayor and Deputy Mayor’s work to improve air quality and the environment in general, alongside our partners.

Cross River Partnership is looking for a brilliant individual to join our team to engage businesses in our work and encourage them to think differently about freight traffic and deliveries within their overall strategic plans. You will work with businesses of all sizes and sectors, with many different levels of existing environmental sustainability knowledge and commitment. In this job you will also have the opportunity to get involved with other exciting ground-breaking Cross River Partnership regeneration projects in central London.

The Deliver London project will engage with businesses in the heart of the West End, working on behalf of Westminster City Council, the West End Partnership, Transport for London and New West End Company.

Key details:
– Salary: £31,635 to £37,629
– Closing Date for applications: 23rd October 2016
– For further information about the role contact: Vicky Keeble at vkeeble@Westminster.gov.uk or on 020 7641 2036.
– To apply: https://jobs.westminster.gov.uk/vacancy/deliver-london-project-officer-280960.html

CRP’s 2 year European partnership project Freight TAILS has recently launched publicity leaflets highlighting the project’s key objectives to improve our environment, manage our urban traffic, and enhance our city spaces.

Find out more about Freight TAILS at our website, and follow us on twitter @freight_tails.

For more information please contact Charlotte Knell, CRP Project Manager. Cknell1@westminster.gov.uk

Freight TAILS is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund, through the URBACT programme.

Freight TAILS leaflets

This autumn the Mayor will set out his vision for London and transport is an important element of this vision. It is well recognised that London needs an efficient, accessible and affordable transport system and safe, clean, attractive spaces.

In the lead up to the release of the draft Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS), it is expected this document will focus on the following three areas:
• Delivering a good public transport experience
• Delivering safe and pleasant spaces
• Supporting the economy, new homes and jobs

There is likely to be a strong emphasis on promoting walking, cycling and healthy streets and a need to further concentrate on funding priorities with project prioritisation based on enabling growth.
The draft Local Implementation Plans will be released alongside the draft MTS in March 2017 and will be open for consultation in the months following.

Transport for London will continue to work closely with boroughs, other partners and stakeholders to develop the Mayor’s vision and the subsequent transport strategy.

More information on the Mayor’s transport vision for London can be found here:

http://www.sadiq.london/a_modern_and_affordable_transport_network

Or from CRP Transport Officer Jane Overington
joverington@westminster.gov.uk

During August CRP Project Manager Vicky Keeble was joined by Steven Medway from New West End Company in Rotterdam for the URBACT Summer University. URBACT is the funding organisation for CRP’s Freight TAILS Action Planning Network which is bringing together 10 European cities to address the challenges posed by rapidly increasing numbers of freight movements. The Summer University was an intensive three days of learning and applying tools for ensuring stakeholder participation; effective problem defining and developing useful action plans for urban regeneration projects. It was a great way to exchange information and best practice with our European partners and experience how the city of Rotterdam has delivered regeneration projects in practice.

For more information contact CRP Deliver London Project Manager Vicky Keeble vkeeble@westminster.gov.uk or Freight TAILS Project Manager Charlotte Knell cknell@westminster.gov.uk

The West End Partnership Freight Group met for the second time on Thursday 7th September, supported by CRP. The group progressed discussions on data, setting baselines and sharing the best practice examples of West End partner Business Improvement Districts, Transport for London, London Boroughs of Camden and Westminster.

CRP are developing a webpage that will link these examples and enable other central London organisations and businesses to apply these initiatives too, scaling up the impact of these freight solutions.

For further information contact CRP Project Manager Vicky Keeble vkeeble@westminster.gov.uk

Archives: News Articles

The Illuminated River

CRP and The Fitzrovia Partnership

Living Wage Week

Award for Greening the BIDs video

New Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy

CRP is recruiting

Freight TAILS – spreading the word

Local Implementation Plans and the Mayor’s Transport Strategy

Freight TAILS in Action

West End Partnership Freight Programme