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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 22^nd 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 3^rd 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 6^th 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:

CRP’s profile has increased along with the exciting range of projects that are being delivered on behalf of our partners. I have seen updates on Twitter, statements in the Evening standard, interviews on London Live, to name a few.
The CRP team has expanded, with an organic shift into two key programmes under which the projects fall; Deliver London and Recruit London.
There has been a concerted push to utilise the specialisms within the team and offer ever better value to our partners in terms of consultancy style work.

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

This July London’s Waterloo celebrates a month of food with a packed programme of exciting events hosted by the area’s vibrant mix of food and drink venues. Waterloo’s top chefs, foodies and baristas will be revealing their secrets and techniques in a month of exclusive master classes, demos, talks, workshops and tasting sessions.

Waterloo Food Month is championed by We Are Waterloo BID and takes place at Lower Marsh and Granby Place – Waterloo’s new outdoor events space.

Find out what’s on here: wearewaterloo.co.uk/foodmonth

FitzPark located on Windmill Street in Fitzrovia is a temporary space which transforms a delivery bay into a ‘parklet’ containing seating and planters for public use.

The pop-up demonstrates how small spaces can be adapted to provide people friendly uses, promoting health and wellbeing through encouraging people to walk, cycle and spend more time outdoors.

The parklet aims to raise awareness about the benefits of urban greening and small scale and temporary public space improvements, which will hopefully inspire positive action towards creating healthy streets.

The project was delivered by The Fitzrova Partnership BID with support from LB Camden and Cross River Partnership, and funding through the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund.

To find out more get in touch with CRP’s Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP attended the Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards, held on 6th July at Vintners’ Hall, London. The Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards showcase flexible and family friendly workplaces across the UK.

CRP sponsored the best flexible working initiative category. The award was presented by Anna Elliott (Recruit London Programme Manager) and Carol Quamina (CRP Operations Manager) to the category winner – Alexander Mann Solutions, a talent acquisition and management company who last year launched a global flexible working programme to increase the take-up and consistency of flexible working.

Further information about Working Families and other Top Employer award categories, winners and case studies can be found here: http://www.topemployersforworkingfamilies.org.uk/index.php/news/entry/the-top-employers-for-working-families-special-award-winners-are-unveiled.

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