The GLA are seeking applications from businesses and business-led groups (including BIDs) for funding to develop new Low Emission Neighbourhoods (LENs).
Business-led LENs will help make local areas more pleasant for customers and staff to walk and cycle in, as well as helping businesses to reduce their emissions and running costs.
See the GLA website for more information.
Anisha George has joined CRP’s Deliver London team as a Business Engagement Officer. Anisha will be working on our deliverBEST programme, supporting businesses to make their deliveries more efficient and reduce their environmental impact. Prior to CRP Anisha worked at Green Alliance as a policy assistant. She has also worked in the renewable energy sector in Tanzania and Canada.
Contact Anisha at anishageorge@crossriverpartnership.org
CRP was delighted to attend the press launch of the London Borough of Culture on 30th June 2017, hosted by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London; Justine Simmons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries; and Catherine McGuiness, Chairman, City of London Corporation.
The London Borough of Culture will highlight how culture can bring communities closer together and shine a spotlight on the distinctive character of each winning borough, giving Londoners a host of ambitious cultural events.
The competition is open to every one of the 32 boroughs in Greater London. Two winning boroughs will be named London Borough of Culture, one in 2019, one in 2020. Each winning borough will be awarded up to £1 million by the GLA.
Closing date 12 noon on 1st December 2017.
CRP would like to wish all of its boroughs the very best of luck with their applications!
Find out more at www.london.gov.uk/boroughofculture.
CRP attended an open consultation meeting on the potential proposed free-to-use cycle bridge between Rotherhithe (LB Southwark) and Canary Wharf (LB Tower Hamlets) on 22nd June 2017. The bridge would be intended to contribute to reduced over-crowding on sections of the Jubilee Line, as well as opening up new cycling and walking possibilities across the River Thames. TfL are also giving consideration to tunnel and / or enhanced ferry service options.
TfL will be preparing its own in-house Business Case on the project by the end of the summer. There will be a two year lead-in to the planning application/s, focusing on environmental work.
For further information please contact TfL.
The project is progressing with pace. At this month’s Project Advisory Group meeting, members were updated on: Bridges Phasing Timelines; Environmental Impact Assessment; 3 D Scanning of Existing Bridges; Channel 4 Documentary.
For further information please see www.illuminatedriver.london.
CRP chaired the fourth meeting of the West End Partnership (WEP) Delivery & Servicing Group on 3rd July. It was a really useful meeting, where public, private and community partners heard about how deliveries impact upon residents from David Kaner of the West End Community Network. We also reflected upon the results of CRP Oxford Street West studies on deliveries and servicing to businesses.
Going forward, the group will be supporting the implementation and scale up of delivery and servicing interventions in the West End. The group is formed of participants from the following organisations:
Baker Street Quarter Partnership
Cross River Partnership
DHL
Freight Transport Association
Gnewt Cargo
Greater London Authority
Heart of London Business Alliance
John Lewis
London Borough of Camden
Marble Arch London
New West End Company
Northbank BID
The Crown Estate
The Fitzrovia Partnership
Transport for London
Victoria BID
West End Community Network
West End Partnership
Westminster City Council
For enquiries about the group please contact Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org
CRP was very pleased to actively contribute to this key note discussion hosted by Councillor David Harvey of Westminster City Council at the Langham Hotel on 6th July 2017. Fellow contributors included Sharon Daly, SDG; James Cooksey, The Crown Estate; Simon Loomes, The Portman Estate; Lilli Matson, Transport for London; Councillor Jacqui Wilkinson, Westminster City Council. The session was expertly facilitated by Jonathan Leake of The Sunday Times.
For further information please contact CRP Director Susannah Wilks.
CRP was honoured to present a session on ‘Walking’ at this well-attended Urban Design London (UDL) conference on 11th July 2017. Other speakers included: Better Bankside, Danielle Cohen; City of London Corporation, Iain Simmons; Transport for London and Westminster City Council, Sam Monck; Transport for London, Dan Johnson and Paul Strang; Westminster City Council, Graham King.
Delegates received CRP’s new Walkable London Toolkit very well.
CRP looks forward to looking at the full detail of the Mayor’s draft Transport Strategy and its potential impact on central London.
New West End Company has launched the world’s first smart street featuring a range of technology initiatives and retail pop-ups.
Bird Street, off Oxford Street has been improved into a ‘traffic free, innovative, experimental outdoor retail and leisure space’. It is a collaboration between New West End Company and some technology and retail experts to demonstrate the sustainability of future high streets.
Bird Street features a rotating mix of retail, food and leisure pop-ups in addition to ‘Pavegen’, the electricity generating paving tiles. The street also has the ‘CleanAir Bench’ and initiative from Airlabs which allows visitors to sit and relax in a space of fresh and filtered air with real-time air quality monitoring technology on site. The pop-up retail units were painted with ‘Airlite paint’ which is able to purify the air of noxious gases and harmful bacteria.
New West End Company CEO, Jace Tyrrell: “The concept behind Bird Street is sustainable energy, better air quality and innovation.”
After almost a year away, it has been great to return to work and observe the changes that have occurred:
All this clearly demonstrates that CRP is living its mission statement of ‘Delivering London’s Future Together’.
I look forward to continuing to work with CRP partners.
For more information contact CRP’s Uto Patrick
