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Freight at Waterloo

18th July 2023 / Posted by Susannah Wilks

Work continues apace to consider the opportunity for moving more freight into Waterloo Station, London Borough of Lambeth, by rail, as well as moving freight onwards across London via zero emissions modes e.g. e-cargo bikes.

Studies are underway by organisations Network Rail, Steer and Intermodality, to:

  • Assess freight rail line timetable capacity
  • Quantify the positive economic, community and environmental impacts of a rail-fed freight hub at Waterloo
  • Identify exemplar case studies of best practice for any future hub to aim towards

The studies are being funded by CRP’s Defra Air Quality grant, as well as by the Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT).

Study results will be available before Autumn. For further information please contact CRP Sustainable Transport Manager Ross Phillips – rossphillips@crossriverpartnership.org or CRP’s Director Susannah Wilks – susannahwilks@crossriverpartnership.org

Clean Air Logistics for London: Thank You

18th July 2023 / Posted by Fiona Coull

It’s the final month of CRP’s Clean Air Logistics for London (CALL) Programme and CRP has been as busy as ever! Here’s a quick overview of what we’ve been up to this month:

  • We’ve been working on an event to celebrate the launch of The London Light Freight Walking Trial. As part of this, there is an opportunity for businesses in the local area to see the e-walker in action and hear about how to get involved in the trial.
  • This month the third drop was successfully completed as part of CRP’s ‘River Freight Pilot – Part 2‘. A Q&A session was recorded to help businesses understand how they can get involved.
  • The third month of data has been provided for the Westminster City Council Micro Logistics Hub trial. We will be sharing these in a final report once the trial is complete.
  • The retrofit of ‘The Albert’ (to make the vessel fully electric) is also nearing completion and the vessel has been renamed to Alb-E.
  • We have also sent out a request for proposal, for a courier to occupy an urban logistics hub in London Borough of Wandsworth at the Southside Shopping Centre. This will be delivered in a similar way to the hub with Westminster City Council and learnings will be shared as part of CRP’s Smarter Greener Logistics (SGL) programme.
  • Several reports and models have also been commissioned in relation to the Waterloo Freight Hub. These are designed to show the impact of a freight hub at Waterloo station and highlight the economic, environmental and social benefits that this would bring to the local area and London more widely.

CRP would like to thank all of the partners involved in our Clean Air Logistics for London (CALL) programme for working with us to make it such a success.

For more information please contact CRP Senior Programme Manager Fiona Coull – fionacoull@crossriverpartnership.org

Westminster Games Success!

17th July 2023 / Posted by CRP Team

This month, the CRP team joined forces with Westminster City Council’s environment teams to form Green Giants – an unstoppable force of over 20 team members – to take part in this year’s annual Westminster Games!

We played netball, rounders and took part in a scavenger hunt around the city. We came third place and enjoyed every second – thank you to our WCC colleagues for a fabulous two weeks of games!

Smarter Greener Logistics Is Underway

17th July 2023 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP were delighted to celebrate the achievements of our Clean Air Logistics for London (CALL) programme at Somerset House at the end of June. The event provided an opportunity to reflect on the range of innovative projects that have been delivered in collaboration with our project partners. We would like to thank all those who attended and the event sponsors Defra, Port of London Authority  and  The Northbank BID! Please see images from the event here.

The June event also saw the launch of Smarter Greener Logistics (SGL), CRP’s new Defra-funded project led by Westminster City Council in collaboration with 26 project partners. SGL aims to minimise the impact of freight on noise, air quality, traffic and pavement space by making improvements across 15 London boroughs and four London Business Improvement Districts (BIDs).

SGL will implement a range of Logistics Elements in order to clean up London’s air, including:

  1. Urban Logistics Hubs
  2. Kerbside Management
  3. Click and Collect/Parcel Lockers
  4. Shared Electric Vehicle schemes & fleet electrification
  5. Cargo Bike & Walking Freight deliveries
  6. Logistics Sector Support
  7. Monitoring to capture benefits
  8. Project Wide Interventions

Watch this space for further SGL updates!

For more information, please contact CRP Senior Programme Manager Fiona Coull – fionacoull@crossriverpartnership.org

Planning for London Programme

17th July 2023 / Posted by Susannah Wilks

CRP is pleased to contribute to one of the Planning for London stakeholder events that the GLA is running at London City Hall.

The Planning for London Programme has been set up to gather evidence, get the views of Londoners and others, and identify issues and options that a future review of the London Plan could consider. It will bring together and report the findings, but it will not set out what a future London Plan will look like or include. These findings will help inform a new or updated Plan after the end of this Mayoral term.

The stakeholder events are just the beginning of the conversation – there will be other opportunities to participate in the programme.

Discussion Topics include:

  • Climate change
  • Infrastructure
  • Design and London’s form
  • Housing
  • Economy
  • Growth patterns

To find out more about this programme please visit https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/planning/planning-london-programme.

Please contact planningforlondon@london.gov.uk if you have any questions.

Freight, logistics and the planning system: Call for evidence

17th July 2023 / Posted by CRP Team

The Department for Transport (DfT) and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has released a call for evidence on the interaction between freight and logistics and the planning system in England. 

This aims to seek views so that the planning needs of the freight and logistics sector can be properly and effectively considered, and is derived from The Future of Freight: a long-term plan, that sets out the objective of a planning system that recognises the needs of the freight and logistics sector – now and in the future – and empowers the relevant authority to plan for them. 

There is a particular need for 3 areas: 

  • local plan making and land availability 
  • planning decision taking and the applications process 
  • how the planning system can support specific policy priorities, including: 
  • supporting supply chains 
  • decarbonisation of freight 
  • heavy goods vehicle (HGVs) driver parking facilities and welfare 
  • strengthening the Union 

If you would like to contribute to this, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/freight-and-logistics-and-the-planning-system-call-for-evidence  

The consultation remains open until 11:59pm on 6 October 2023, so please do submit your responses by this point.

For more information, please contact CRP Sustainable Transport Manager Ross Phillips – rossphillips@crossriverpartnership.org

Seeking participants for Westminster Clean Air Walking Routes research

17th July 2023 / Posted by Sefinat Otaru

Are you an avid walker or cyclist who uses apps and tools such as CRP’s Clean Air Route Finder to find less polluted routes? 

Westminster City Council wants to understand people’s needs when walking around the borough and how air quality influences their choice of route. 

The survey will take around 8 minutes to complete and will ask for some details about you, the things that are important to you when walking around the city and if you use any tools to monitor air quality of the places you visit. 

 The survey outcomes will be used to help the council meet the needs of people walking in the borough. 

 All participants will have a chance to enter a draw to win a £50 shopping voucher. 

 Additionally, at the end of the survey, you can choose to apply for further research activities and, if selected, you will be rewarded with shopping vouchers ranging from £15 to £45. 

Please click here to complete the survey: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/x-87XQ6M/. 

 

Fore more information, please contact CRP Project Manager Sefinat Otaru – sefinatotaru@crossriverpartnership.org

Halfway Point Review: Pimlico Micro Hub Logistics Trial

17th July 2023 / Posted by Isidora Rivera Vollmer

After three months of operations, we are proud to say that we have reached our Pimlico micro logistics hub trial’s halfway point! 🎉 

Data from the first three months of the trial indicates that in total, the number of e-cargo bike deliveries from the micro logistics hub have increased by 257% in the third month when compared to the first month.  

Throughout these three months, the e-cargo bikes have travelled 6,972 km, which, when compared to polluting van deliveries, led to a total emissions reduction of  

  • 2,936 kg of CO2 
  • 7,253 g of NOx 
  • 259 g of PM2.5 

These emissions savings can also be translated into these more tangible examples, by using our CRP Clean Air Tool: 

  • CO2 emissions from 60 football pitch-sized forest fires 🔥 
  • NOx emissions equivalent to what 220 people emit in one day 💨 
  • 5.8 sycamore maple trees required to filter out these PM2.5 emissions 🌳 

Read our CALL Snapshot about how we set up this hub here! 

For more information, please contact CRP Project Manager Isidora Rivera Vollmer – isidorariveravollmer@crossriverpartnership.org

Jubilee Gardens Summer Party

30th June 2023 / Posted by Susannah Wilks

CRP enjoyed greatly the Jubilee Gardens Summer Party on 14th June 2023. We enjoyed meeting the Trustees and learning more about this very special green space in the heart of the South Bank community in the London Borough of Lambeth.

There were speeches by Ted Inman, Chair of the Jubilee Gardens Trust, the Duke of Gloucester,  Florence Eshalomi MP, and Councillor Claire Holland, Leader of the London Borough of Lambeth.

Thank you very much for the delicious cake!

Golden Jubilee Bridges

30th June 2023 / Posted by Susannah Wilks

On 2nd July 2023, it will be 20 years since Princess Alexandra officially opened the Queen’s Jubilee Bridges, or the Hungerford Foot bridges as they are known, from the City of Westminster to the London Borough of Lambeth. CRP played a pivotal role in bringing these bridges to fruition, as well as bringing about the Millennium Bridge between the City of London Corporation and the London Borough of Southwark some years before.

What a difference these bridges have made to achieving CRP’s original aims of spreading prosperity and visitor numbers from north of the river to south of the river!

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