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The Mayor of London is seeking feedback on his latest proposals to help improve London’s air quality.

Proposals include tougher emission standards for the London-wide Low Emission Zone and expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone to the North and South Circular roads.

Read CRP’s positive, constructive response and make sure you have your say by Wednesday 28th February. See the TfL website for more information on the proposals and to have your say.

Since starting my internship in early January, I have been warmly welcomed by everyone at CRP and am amazed at how quickly the time has flown by already. Currently, I am studying for an MSc in Sustainable Cities at King’s College London and this internship will be a great way of seeing more of a practical application on projects addressing urban sustainability.

My first days have been focussed primarily on the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood project. I have been working on website content and social media management, providing support on the air quality walks and also attending a consultation meeting about the monitoring and evaluation of air quality in this area with a Marble Arch BID member.

I am looking forward to providing a strong contribution to the team and CRP’s partners whilst I am here.

You can contact me at rossphillips@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP has provided a response to the Port of London Authority’s (PLA’s) Draft Air Quality Strategy for the Tidal Thames. Our response draws on our experience delivering electric freight and freight consolidation projects across central London.

CRP fully supports the PLA’s ambition to encourage a level of air quality from the river above that set by legal requirements and the drafting of its first Air Quality Strategy. In particular, CRP appreciates the strategy’s coherence with the Mayor’s Environment and Transport strategies and their aim to shift freight onto the River Thames.

For more information, please contact CRP’s Programme Manager Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

CRP is very happy to have been selected to start the Air Quality Business Engagement project for London Borough of Haringey, focusing on the Crouch End area.

Haringey

As part of this project, CRP will engage with Crouch End businesses through an online survey and face-to-face support. Data will be gathered on current delivery and servicing as well as business travel patterns. Proposed actions will come out of the data and will include an air quality action infosheet as well as cycle safety and business air quality seminars.

Through this work, CRP will support Haringey in making Crouch End a cleaner, healthier place by improving local air quality, supporting active travel and helping to reduce business energy and transport costs.

For more information, please contact CRP’s Programme Manager Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

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.

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