CRP’s Greening the BIDs video produced with design agency Hudson Fuggle has won a Silver Award in the EVCOM 2016 Clarion Awards. Well done to all partners and funders involved, including the GLA, Drain London, TfL and Natural England! Click here to view the prize winning video.
CRP welcomes London’s new Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy, Shirley Rodrigues, who started in the role earlier this month.
The new Deputy Mayor is leading the Mayor’s programme for ‘a greener, cleaner London’ and has responsibility for air quality and greening – two areas which CRP and our partners are very active in.
We look forward to continuing to support the Mayor and Deputy Mayor’s work to improve air quality and the environment in general, alongside our partners.
Cross River Partnership is looking for a brilliant individual to join our team to engage businesses in our work and encourage them to think differently about freight traffic and deliveries within their overall strategic plans. You will work with businesses of all sizes and sectors, with many different levels of existing environmental sustainability knowledge and commitment. In this job you will also have the opportunity to get involved with other exciting ground-breaking Cross River Partnership regeneration projects in central London.
The Deliver London project will engage with businesses in the heart of the West End, working on behalf of Westminster City Council, the West End Partnership, Transport for London and New West End Company.
Key details:
– Salary: £31,635 to £37,629
– Closing Date for applications: 23rd October 2016
– For further information about the role contact: Vicky Keeble at vkeeble@Westminster.gov.uk or on 020 7641 2036.
– To apply: https://jobs.westminster.gov.uk/vacancy/deliver-london-project-officer-280960.html
CRP’s 2 year European partnership project Freight TAILS has recently launched publicity leaflets highlighting the project’s key objectives to improve our environment, manage our urban traffic, and enhance our city spaces.
Find out more about Freight TAILS at our website, and follow us on twitter @freight_tails.
For more information please contact Charlotte Knell, CRP Project Manager. Cknell1@westminster.gov.uk
Freight TAILS is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund, through the URBACT programme.
This autumn the Mayor will set out his vision for London and transport is an important element of this vision. It is well recognised that London needs an efficient, accessible and affordable transport system and safe, clean, attractive spaces.
In the lead up to the release of the draft Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS), it is expected this document will focus on the following three areas:
• Delivering a good public transport experience
• Delivering safe and pleasant spaces
• Supporting the economy, new homes and jobs
There is likely to be a strong emphasis on promoting walking, cycling and healthy streets and a need to further concentrate on funding priorities with project prioritisation based on enabling growth.
The draft Local Implementation Plans will be released alongside the draft MTS in March 2017 and will be open for consultation in the months following.
Transport for London will continue to work closely with boroughs, other partners and stakeholders to develop the Mayor’s vision and the subsequent transport strategy.
More information on the Mayor’s transport vision for London can be found here:
http://www.sadiq.london/a_modern_and_affordable_transport_network
Or from CRP Transport Officer Jane Overington
joverington@westminster.gov.uk
During August CRP Project Manager Vicky Keeble was joined by Steven Medway from New West End Company in Rotterdam for the URBACT Summer University. URBACT is the funding organisation for CRP’s Freight TAILS Action Planning Network which is bringing together 10 European cities to address the challenges posed by rapidly increasing numbers of freight movements. The Summer University was an intensive three days of learning and applying tools for ensuring stakeholder participation; effective problem defining and developing useful action plans for urban regeneration projects. It was a great way to exchange information and best practice with our European partners and experience how the city of Rotterdam has delivered regeneration projects in practice.
For more information contact CRP Deliver London Project Manager Vicky Keeble vkeeble@westminster.gov.uk or Freight TAILS Project Manager Charlotte Knell cknell@westminster.gov.uk
The West End Partnership Freight Group met for the second time on Thursday 7th September, supported by CRP. The group progressed discussions on data, setting baselines and sharing the best practice examples of West End partner Business Improvement Districts, Transport for London, London Boroughs of Camden and Westminster.
CRP are developing a webpage that will link these examples and enable other central London organisations and businesses to apply these initiatives too, scaling up the impact of these freight solutions.
For further information contact CRP Project Manager Vicky Keeble vkeeble@westminster.gov.uk
In cooperation with FREVUE, Civitas Capital organised a study tour to London on 7-8 September 2016. TfL very kindly hosted the tour at their Greenwich offices.
The goal was to share knowledge gained by the FREVUE partners as well as other relevant stakeholders about the implementation of electric freight vehicles and consolidation centres and to facilitate the implementation of similar schemes in other cities. The approximately 50 attendees included representatives from industry and research organisations as well as policy makers from Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, The Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.
FREVUE London partners UPS and Imperial College presented their work in the project while Arup organised an exciting seminar on alternatives to traditional consolidation including presentations from various industry partners, such as TNT, Straship Technologies and Collect+.
For the presentations, please see:
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On 7th September 2016, on behalf of our Cross River Partnership Board Co-Chairs George Gillon and Simon Pitkeathley, CRP hosted a Clean Air Better Business Event at the Swan, Shakespeare’s Globe complex, to bring our partners together to explore potential opportunities for tackling air quality issues. There were many innovative suggestions emerging from the night’s conversation including implementing an automated city-wide efficient delivery booking system. It also provided CRP with an opportunity to hear what our partners think – one of the feedbacks referred to CRP as ‘Best resource to help BIDs deliver projects!’. This will certainly inspire us to keep up the good work.
On 16 August 2016, Westminster City Council Planning Policy and Communication team members were invited to the streaming of a TED talk by Alexander Betts on why Brexit happened and what to do next. Alexander Betts, Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs at the University of Oxford, argues that Brexit grew out of a deep, unexamined divide between those that fear globalisation and those that embrace it.
The goal must be for more people to share in the benefits of globalisation to achieve an inclusive globalisation rather than one that is seen as part of an elite agenda. Betts’ four ideas to achieve this are:
According to Betts, only when we achieve the above will we truly reconcile democracy and globalisation.
For further information please see https://www.ted.com/talks/alexander_betts_why_brexit_happened_and_what_to_do_next
