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The new draft London Plan has been released for public consultation until Friday 2^nd March 2018:

https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/planning/london-plan/new-london-plan

The major themes of this strategy for London, align closely to the Mayor’s vision ‘A City for All Londoners’ covering six policies for Good Growth

Building strong and inclusive communities

Enhance valued services; bind existing and new communities and promote active and healthy lives, increase public toilet access and ensuring a healthy streets approach

Making best use of land

Intensification (in the right places) with colocation; protection of the green belt and retaining the distinct character of London; attractive and cherished

Creating a healthy city

Improving health outcomes; increasing active travel; bringing London national park status and reducing air pollution

Delivering the homes Londoners need

66,000 new homes are needed per year, the Mayor will support boroughs to meet increased targets for use of small sites for homes, and ensure affordability

Growing a good economy

All Londoners to share in London’s economic success, with a focus on the night time economy; promoting high specification offices; digital technology and sector growth to ensure London’s continued global participation

Increasing efficiency and resilience

Mitigating and adapting to climate change; protecting business and residents; minimising waste to landfill and ensuring efficient use of water

Cross River Partnership and the Association of Town and City Management will co-host a seminar in January 2018 for London-based Business Improvement Districts plus London boroughs to coordinate a collaborative response to the draft London Plan. Further details will follow shortly.

For more information or to pre-register please contact Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP is progressing its development of a Delivery Servicing Plan for the West End, as part of our work on behalf of the West End Partnership.

As part of this project, CRP has hosted special workshops with stakeholders including Transport for London; Oxford Street Transformation project team; Westminster and Camden Councils; logistics operators; property owners; residents associations and Business Improvement Districts, to bring a wide range of views to the plan. All stakeholders are keen to see the efficiency of urban freight improved in the West End and are willing to play their part to facilitate this.

The plan will include quick win actions, recommending improvements which would be immediately noticeable. It will also include a longer term, strategic approach to the management of deliveries and servicing in central London, linking to the new London Plan, and Mayor’s Transport Strategy. This draft Delivery Servicing Plan for the West End will be presented to the West End Partnership Board in January 2018.

The consultation period for the Oxford Street Transformation has been extended until 3^rd January 2018 https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/roads/oxford-street/?cid=oxford-street

For more information on the West End Partnership Deliveries & Servicing Group visit https://crossriverpartnership.org/WEPFreight/ or contact vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org

Poor air quality is one of London’s top public health issues, contributing to the premature deaths of 10,000 Londoners each year. Children and older people, as well as those with respiratory health conditions, are particularly at risk from the harmful effects of engine idling, which is why it is especially important that we recognise the need to have cleaner air around schools and hospitals, looking out for everybody who lives and travels in Marylebone.

As part of the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood programme to improve local air quality, CRP has produced an anti-idling video to be used for training purposes for fleet drivers and to share online. It highlights the damaging health impact, busts the myths about vehicle engine idling and makes the case for positive behaviour change. Did you know, for example, that many vans use more fuel idling for just 10 seconds than stopping and restarting the engine?

The video can be shared using #DontBeIdle, #CareforAir and #MaryleboneLEN.

To find out more about the LEN, or about using an extended version of the video as part of a toolbox talk, get in touch with CRP’s Vicky Keeble or Tom Linton-Smith.

The end of the year also marks an important milestone for the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) as the 3-year programme reaches its halfway point. Established in 2016 and funded by the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund, the Marylebone LEN is a partnership between Westminster City Council and local stakeholders including BIDs, landowners and residents’ associations to address the local air quality.

It has been a good time to reflect on all that has been achieved so far, including the introduction of an experimental parking surcharge for older diesel vehicles, a successful anti-idling initiative, innovative electric vehicle charging installations, hundreds of children participating in Air Quality lessons and enjoying a number of ‘play streets’, and dozens of local businesses receiving tailored information to help them make their deliveries more efficient and less polluting including promotion of the West End Buyers Club by local Business Improvement Districts Baker Street Quarter Partnership, Marble Arch BID and New West End Company.

CRP is also delighted to have been commissioned by Westminster City Council to deliver programme management for the duration of the LEN.

The most recent developments include an experimental ‘no right turn’ being introduced in the LEN to reduce the use of a quiet residential street as a vehicle shortcut, improving the local air quality for these Marylebone residents, as well as the online release of two myth-busting anti-idling videos to be used for business engagement.

There is still lots to do to build on the successes so far, with 2018 sure to be a busy year.

To find out more about the LEN, get in touch with CRP’s Vicky Keeble or Tom Linton-Smith.

CRP are delighted to support one of our partner BIDs The Northbank while we are resident in their area. They recently hosted a drop-in gardening event in partnership with Westminster City Council, encouraging workers in the area to take some time over their lunch breaks to plant some bulbs for all to enjoy in the spring. Stress accounted for 45% of all working days lost in 2016, and gardening has been to shown to help boost wellbeing, brain function and productivity as well as reducing stress and anxiety. CRP recognises the business benefits of employers providing working environments that support staff wellbeing, for example publishing a toolkit for Family Friendly Employment.

Deliver London’s Tom went to check out the latest event in Temple Gardens and is looking forward to seeing a flash of colour emerge in the spring.

There are plans for more regular events to commence in the spring. For more information contact Tom Linton-Smith.

The Green Capital Grant is Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new £2 million fund to create multi-beneficial green infrastructure. Benefits include reducing flooding risk, increasing biodiversity, improving walking and cycling and boosting public health.

Green Capital grants will be between £250,000 and £500,000 per project and should address social and environmental challenges such as air pollution, health or flooding.

Applications are now open and expressions of interests close on 19 February 2018. Cross River Partnership is ready to work with partners on potential collaborative applications if desired.

To find out more please get in touch with CRP’s Director, Susannah Wilks susannahwilks@crossriverpartnership.org.

The Central London Sub Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP) is a valuable forum for the exchange of ideas between central London boroughs. It is the sub-regional point of contact for Transport for London and funded by them. Through it, CRP facilitates and project manages innovative pilots, trials and research responding to emerging strategy.

CRP is thrilled to be working with our partners to be delivering a range of identified projects this year including;

A ‘walking tube/rail’ intervention at Billy Fury Way (London Borough of Camden) to enliven a ‘connector’ path between key stations, improving access, lighting and creating a sense of place
Phase 2 of a Market Delivery and Servicing Plan to deliver a range of improvements identified during Phase 1 (WeAreWaterloo BID/Lambeth Council and Angel BID /Islington Council)
Healthy Streets; delivering improvements to Ravenet Street (London Borough of Wandsworth) using the healthy streets check to measure the impact of interventions to improve the walking and cycling experience
A study on the impact of autonomous freight vehicles in central London
A study into securing grid infrastructure capacity for the electrification of commercial fleets
Continued support for the delivery of the Go Ultra Low City Scheme including supporting partner applications for Round 2 of the Neighbourhood of the Future
Continued support of the Central London Freight Quality Partnership (CLFQP)

The work of the CLSRTP aims to create a benchmark of best practice that can be applied pan-London and highlights the benefits of partnership-focused delivery.

For further information, please contact CRP’s Uto Patrick

We are thrilled that on 23^rd November CRP’s FREVUE project has won a second award: the National Air Quality Award for the Freight Transport Initiative of the Year 2017!

The National Air Quality Awards are organised by AirQualityNews.com in partnership with Daimler Trucks. In the category Freight Transport Air Quality Initiative of the Year the following organisations were shortlisted: CNG Fuels for saving tonnes in CO2 emissions for HGV fleets; Croydon Council for their work on air quality and freight; Kuehne+Nagel for their Whitbread Clean Fuel Food Logistics as well as CRP’s FREVUE project. Winning this second award comes on the back of the LowCVP Low Carbon Road Transport Initiative of the Year Award in October.

The 4.5-year FREVUE (Freight Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe) project that was finalised in September 2017 deployed 80 fully electric freight vehicles (EFVs) across a range of logistics operations in eight European cities. The vehicles ranged from car-derived vans of under 3.5 tonnes to highly innovative 18-tonne trucks. In London, 16 UPS diesel delivery trucks were converted to electric as part of the project and are still in operation today. In addition, Clipper Logistics deployed a 10-tonne delivery truck from the Regent Street Crown Estate consolidation centre in central London. The overall project was co-ordinated by CRP.

For more information, please contact the CRP FREVUE Co-ordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, see www.frevue.eu or follow the project on twitter @FREVUE_project.

The Mayor of London is seeking feedback on his proposal to extend the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to the North and South Circular roads in 2021.

The proposed extension is in addition to the Mayor’s recent decision to bring forward the start date for the ULEZ in central London to April 2019.

The Mayor is also proposing to tighten the standards of the existing London-wide Low Emission Zone from 2020, which affects heavy vehicles – buses, coaches and HGVs and other heavy specialist vehicles.

Find out more and have your say on TfL’s consultations webpage.

CRP’s deliverBEST business support service has now helped over 200 business reduce emissions from their operations.

Businesses have received recommendations to make deliveries to and from their sites more efficient, via the online deliverBEST tool (www.deliverBEST.london), at CRP-facilitated workshops and with bespoke, 1:1 support from CRP’s deliverBEST team.

In Southwark, CRP are working with Better Bankside to support BID members including The Bridge Charity, the London Fire Brigade and Great Portland Estates. With Victoria BID, CRP are working with Land Securities and Grosvenor to support co-ordinated action in multi-tenanted buildings.

CRP’s deliverBEST team is also working with the Marylebone LEN, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea Councils to support better air quality across central London.

Contact CRP’s Business Engagement Officer, Sefinat Otaru, for more information.

Archives: News Articles

Draft London Plan

West End-wide Delivery Servicing Plan

Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood – Action against idling

Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood – Progress so far

Lunchtime Gardening

Green Capital Grant Opportunities

CLSRTP

More Award Success for FREVUE

Mayor’s ULEZ Extension Proposals

deliverBEST Business Engagement