One of the legacies of FREVUE is the new SEUL project, set up with Office for Low Emission Vehicles UK funding to further extend the number of freight electric vehicles being charged and used by UPS across central London, working with UK Power Networks and CRP. A handy postcard introduction to the project has been produced.
We are very happy to welcome Shanon Lim and Tom Linton-Smith to the CRP team.
Shanon joined CRP as our new Transport Project Officer. He is primarily working on the finalisation of FREVUE and will engage in various Air Quality projects that CRP are working on. Shanon completed his MSc in Environmental Science, focussing on air quality in public transport. For more information contact Shanon here.
Tom Linton-Smith is our new Transport and Sustainability Officer. He is working on a range of projects for CRP including Freight TAILS and the West End Partnership Delivery and Servicing Programme.
Tom has recently completed his MSc in Transport Planning and Management at the University of Westminster, with a focus on active travel. His final research project was on urban family cycling. For more information contact Tom here.
After 4.5 years of partnership work, the last day of the Freight Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe project (FREVUE) has now come and gone. As the funder and external assessors are approving reports and publications, these are gradually being made available on the FREVUE website.
The highly interesting results have already drawn a large crowd at the FREVUE Final Conference in June. We would now be happy to discuss these results and their implications for London in more detail with any of our partners and stakeholders. Do feel free to contact the CRP FREVUE Co-ordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, to arrange a meeting.
For more information, please see www.frevue.eu or follow FREVUE on twitter @FREVUE_project.
More than 60 businesses have participated in CRP’s deliverBEST programme in recent months and received practical, proven solutions to make deliveries to their central London sites more efficient. Recommended actions are saving time and money while reducing traffic congestion and improving local air quality.
By completing deliverBEST’s quick online questionnaire at www.deliverbest.london businesses receive bespoke recommendations that can help uncover efficiencies. CRP’s deliverBEST team are then available to provide 1:1 support, provide implementation insights, measure results and share best practice via workshops.
deliverBEST has been developed by Cross River Partnership, is supported by Defra and the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund and is delivered with partners including Better Bankside and Victoria BIDs.
For further information please contact CRP’s Project Manager, Brendon Harper.
CRP is very pleased to welcome Hammersmith London Business Improvement District (BID) as the newest member of the partnership. The BID, which represents over 350 businesses in the Hammersmith town centre, is the 19th BID to join CRP.
CRP are looking forward to working with Hammersmith London team to support delivery of their member business’ priorities and to share and link with other CRP BID, borough and strategic partners.
For further information please contact Hammersmith London BID.
CRP Partner Baker Street Quarter Partnership are recruiting for a Communications and Administration Assistant.
For more information visit http://www.bakerstreetq.co.uk/about/article/vacancies/
The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) is a voluntary accreditation scheme that promotes best practice for commercial vehicle operators. With over 4,700 members, FORS is gaining recognition as the transport industry’s go-to accreditation scheme.
In its August newsletter and on its website, FORS published an article on FREVUE and the project’s findings. Part of the FORS Standard requirement ‘G9 Modal shift and alternative vehicles’ states that fleet operators shall assess the opportunity to use electric or alternatively-fuelled or powered vehicles within the fleet. So, the findings of the FREVUE project will help members better understand the benefits of electric vehicles and the different options available compared to diesel power.
For more information, please see www.fors-online.org.uk, www.freuve.eu or contact the FREVUE Co-ordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, on tanjadallemuenchmeyer@crossriverpartnership.org.
World Car Free Day 2017 (WCFD) is fast approaching giving us all the opportunity to get out of our vehicles and use alternative modes to get around our city. It is a great opportunity for CRP partners to showcase the great work being done to encourage more walking, cycling, public transport, consolidated deliveries all improve the air quality in central London and make our streets healthier.
It is linked to European Mobility Week which is an EU-sponsored week-long event culminating in a car free day on the last day. This year CRP will be joining the campaign digitally and want to encourage partners to pledge their support and tweet on the day about how you get around without the car.
You can download below example tweets and pledges for the day. We would love to see some of your interventions showcased e.g. parklets, cycle infrastructure, walking routes, click.collect promotions and any car free event you are holding on the day.
Cross River Partnership will be coordinating a community green street on 22nd September to align to World Car Free Day on Luxborough Street in the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood.
For more information contact Deliver London Programme Manager – Vicky Keeble
Cross River Partnership launched ReStart with The Crown Estate to help Westminster residents who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to gain jobs, and at the same time support their customers on Regent Street and St James’s Market with recruitment.
ReStart is part of our Recruit London programme, which the Workplace Coordinator offers jobseekers one-to-one employment support and works closely with the local homeless charities, such as The Connections at St-Martin-in-The-Field and Centrepoint to support the jobseekers other needs.
If you would like to find out some stories of the jobseekers who have been supported by ReStart, please click here .
For more information, please contact CRP’s Nathalie Lam or click here.
The Mayor has committed £9m to create and improve green spaces and encourage tree planting and management in London!
London’s green spaces are vital for people’s wellbeing and with the aim of making London a National Park City the Mayor has launched the Greener City Fund.
This new programme will support projects that promote innovation and have a lasting impact in terms of making London’s neighbourhoods greener. Types of initiatives that this fund will support include: tree planting, restoring rivers, increasing the number of natural play-spaces for children, and creating green routes that encourage more Londoners to walk and cycle.
Funding is split across three project categories:
For information on how to apply and funding deadlines see the Greener City Fund prospectus, available here.
For more information please get in touch with Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington.
