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Over the last couple of months CRP have been delighted to attend a variety of events across the sector, helping us stay connected to the latest developments and the ideas driving our work forward. These opportunities allow us to engage directly with peers across the industry, share ideas and stay informed on emerging priorities.

Being actively involved in our networks is an important part of what we do at CRP. It helps us build strong relationships and ensures we’re bringing relevant insights back into our projects.

Events that CRP has had the opportunity to attend include:

The Centre of Ageing Resilience in a Changing Environment (CARICE) Science and Networking Conference at King’s College London, focused on lifestyle, health span and resilience. It was a valuable experience hearing insights from leading researchers and practitioners to explore how nutrition, physical activity and the microbiome can support healthy, ageing and resilient communities.

Innovation Zero 2026 was an insightful event that highlighted both the opportunities and the urgency behind delivering a resilient, low carbon London. The key takeaways were that delivering true climate progress requires deeper decarbonisation of energy supply alongside infrastructure changes, stronger policies on increasingly local and urgent climate risks, and more joined-up, collaborative approaches across interconnected policy areas.

The Transport Planning Society’s Designing Equitable Communities event was a thoughtful and energising session on how transport and place design can work better for everyone. The focus on designing with women and girls in mind was particularly powerful, with clear links to improved safety, accessibility and confidence for all users.

CRP were also delighted to be welcomed to E.ON to take a tour around Citigen, a hidden power station buried in the heart of London which supplies decentralised district energy, a lower carbon and cost-efficient source of energy. It was a great opportunity to better understand how district energy systems operate in practice and the role they can play in supporting lower carbon energy solutions.

These events have provided valuable opportunities for CRP to connect, share insights and stay informed on key issues.

This month CRP have launched our latest Healthy Streets Everyday II campaign Walk This May, helping you to discover cleaner, healthier walking routes that you can use to get around London on foot.

We’ve curated four leisure walking routes that prioritise lower air pollution, quieter streets and more pleasant environments, making it easier for you to explore your streets in London. The routes cover:

Camden to Regents Park

Vauxhall to Oval

America Street to Hercules Road

Somerset House to Senate House

Why do these routes matter? Well, choosing to walk for shorter journeys, instead of drive, will improve your physical and mental health and reduce pollution, helping everyone to breathe cleaner air in London.

The campaign coincides with Living Streets’ National Walking Month, that this year prioritises the benefits of walking or wheeling for women, coinciding with a celebratory mass walking event across the UK on Friday 29th May.

CRP routes mean you get to explore new neighbourhoods and discover new parts of London, including initiatives delivered through our Healthy Streets Everyday II programme, supported by the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund!

For more information on our Healthy Streets Everyday II programme, please contact CRP Sustainable Transport Manager Ross Phillips.

The CRP Team is as excited as everyone else about the new opportunities for collaboration following the recent Local Government Election Results.

CRP has seen many different Elections over its 30 year history and each one throws up the chance to check in, re-prioritise, refresh and innovate what we are all doing in London, as well as how we are doing it.

Huge congratulations to all the Councillors who have gained or held seats!

We look forward to continuing to work closely with London Boroughs led by a range of different parties to deliver projects that make good sense to all.

Please don’t hesitate to contact the CRP Team if you would like a briefing about the #Project Delivery work we can do for you.

Here’s to continuing to work together in partnership across London’s Boroughs and Business Improvement Districts for better outcomes for Londoners, businesses and visitors. We can do it!

Last month’s CRP Board meeting took place in-person at Tower Bridge North Lounge. 

It was a truly spectacular setting at which to formally thank Simon Pitkeathley for his 15 years Co-Chairing the CRP Board.

We really appreciate the City of London Corporation’s Simon Duckworth (CRP Board Public Sector Co-Chair) arranging special access to this venue for us.

Please see a short video showing all CRP Partners collaborating: https://youtube.com/shorts/-2ooCRWDlsk?feature=share

At the meeting the CRP Team launched the final version CRP Annual Report & Business Plan 2025-27 – Cross River Partnership.

Westminster City Council’s Richard Cressey is leading the recruitment process to select a new Director for CRP.  The application closing date was 17th May 2026. Thank you very much to Simon Duckworth, Nadia Broccardo, Hasanul Hoque, James Crosbie and Natalie Monaghan for sitting on interview panels. Watch this space for an announcement in due course!

The next meeting of the CRP Board will be in-person at Team London Bridge‘s offices, on 8th October 2026 – thank you very much to CRP Board Private Sector Co-Chair Nadia Broccardo for hosting this.

Cross River Partnership (CRP) is proud to partner with Westminster City Council (WCC) to support delivery of the Westminster Sustainable City Charter Innovation Challenge. The project is being led by Westminster’s Economic Growth and Green Economy teams and funded through WCC’s Westminster Climate Fund.

Designed to support Sustainable City Charter signatories and local innovators, the Challenge will identify local SMEs with low carbon solutions and products and match them with signatories to trial these in real-world commercial settings.

Through these collaborative pilot projects, the Challenge will help reduce signatories’ emissions, as well as drive the growth of the low carbon industry across the borough.

For SMEs, it is an opportunity to demonstrate impact, learn from ambitious pilots, and pitch their solutions to wider audiences. For signatories, it is a chance to trial new approaches.

CRP will be leading Stage 1 of the Challenge as a trusted delivery partner, including leading engagement with Sustainable City Charter signatories and Westminster Business Improvement Districts to understand the barriers that slow the adoption or expansion of decarbonisation solutions in Westminster to inform the design of the Challenge before its launch in Summer 2026.

The initiative aligns with key WCC strategies, including the Westminster Plan for a Fairer Economy, the Local Area Energy Plan for Westminster, the Climate Emergency Action Plan 2025–2030, and the Zero Carbon City 2040 Action Plan.

Read our press release to find out more: https://crossriverpartnership.org/?publications=press-release-crp-supports-westminster-city-councils-sustainable-city-charter-innovation-challenge.

Explore CRP’s newly launched project page here: Westminster Sustainable City Charter Innovation Challenge

For more information on the Challenge please contact CRP Project Manager Katherine Fairfax.

We’re pleased to share the launch of CRP’s Annual Report and Business Plan for 2025–27, showcasing a year of strong progress and setting out an ambitious roadmap for the years ahead.

Over the past year, CRP has continued to grow its reach, influence and impact. We welcomed two new Board Co‑Chairs, marking an exciting new chapter in our leadership, and strengthened collaboration by expanding our partnership network across a wider range of sectors. Our consultancy services also grew, delivering new projects with partners including UCL and Better Bankside, alongside other key clients.

It was also a standout year for delivery and recognition. We secured two major award wins for the Waterloo Freight Hub, underlining the real‑world impact of our work. Alongside this, we continued to collaborate closely with partners to deliver activity under our Healthy Streets Everyday II and Just Streets programmes, while developing a pipeline of exciting new projects for the future.

Together, these achievements position CRP well as we continue to deliver meaningful change and create lasting impact. We would like to extend a huge thank you to our partners, clients, Board and team, whose commitment and collaboration have made this progress possible.

🔗 Read the CRP Annual Report and Business Plan 2025–27 to find out more: https://crossriverpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CRP-ARBP-2025-2026-FINAl.pdf

If you’re interested in learning more about our work or exploring new opportunities to collaborate, we’d love to hear from you.

CRP are delighted to welcome Maisha Anam to the team! Maisha will be joining CRP for a 6-month graduate placement as part of Westminster City Council’s Graduate Programme. Hear from Maisha on what inspired her to join CRP.

“Having been born and raised in London, as well as completing my studies here, I’ve always felt a strong connection to the city. After completing my undergraduate degree at King’s College London in International Development, with a key focus in environmental development, it has become even more important to me to play a part in helping London become the best it can be.

I’m really looking forward to the next 6 months with CRP, as their initiatives align closely with my passion for creating a greener and more sustainable city for everyone. I’m excited to work in a collaborative environment with the team and to get involved in meaningful projects that help drive positive change across London!”

Throughout Spring, CRP have been busy developing campaigns showing all of the excellent work that our Healthy Streets Everyday II partners are doing, as part of our Mayor’s Air Quality Funded programme.

Late March saw the release of our Collaboration & Co-Design campaign, showcasing ways that our HSE II partners have worked with communities to create greener, safer and more vibrant places for walking, cycling, wheeling and scooting.

Collaboration is where organisations work together by bringing expertise and ideas to achieve a shared goal.

Co-design is a process where creators and end‑users work together as equal partners to shape solutions – designing streets with people, not just for them.

When we collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders and users of our streets, it creates opportunities to unlock spaces for the community, helping to improve air quality by encouraging active travel and reducing over-dependence on private motor vehicles.

Do also keep an eye on our LinkedIn page for the upcoming campaign, Walk This May! Coinciding with May’s National Walking Month, Walk This May will help to encourage more people to walk by sharing its’ newly created walking routes that align with existing and future delivery on the Healthy Streets Everyday II programme in London.

For more information on our Healthy Streets Everyday II programme, please contact CRP Sustainable Transport Manager Ross Phillips.

CRP is excited to start a new project with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust evaluating how e‑bikes are supporting their clinical teams. The Trust introduced e‑bikes to help staff travel to patients’ homes more efficiently, reduce emissions and give colleagues a healthier, more enjoyable way to move between visits. Our work will help the Trust understand the benefits so far and identify practical opportunities to strengthen and expand the initiative.

The project will bring together insights from staff, journey information and observations from on‑site visits to support the Trust in shaping the next phase of its active travel activity, ensuring any future rollout is safe, inclusive and well‑supported across teams.

In doing so, we hope to help the Trust create smoother, healthier, more sustainable ways for staff to reach patients and deliver care across the community.

Visit our newly launched project page 👉 https://crossriverpartnership.org/projects/gstt-e-bike-evaluation/

The Mayor of London is preparing a framework to futureproof London’s long-term logistics needs, to support housing growth, improve productivity and deliver good growth, including how the Greater London Authority (GLA) and Transport for London (TfL) will support this sector.

The London Growth Plan already sets out a clear vision for how our city’s economy will thrive in the years to come and deliver on ambitious targets to build the homes that Londoners need.

A world class, robust and resilient logistics sector is needed to support the industries that will deliver this vision, deliver growth and housing and support decarbonisation in the face of climate change.

With the publication of the Growth Plan, work is now underway across private and public sectors to understand the long-term logistics needs of London’s economy and identify opportunities for innovation. Areas of focus include productivity improvement and emissions reduction through cutting-edge technology to support London’s target to be net zero by 2030, ensure associated pressures from growth are managed sustainably, and underpin planning policy in London and TfL’s work related to the sector.

Noting the specific focus of the Logistics Plan on productivity and growth, the Logistics Plan will not replace the 2019 Freight and Servicing Action Plan but will complement it.

Please see the Logistics Plan web page here:

London Logistics Plan 2026: progress update | London City Hall

The draft objectives of the Logistics Plan are as follows:

Productivity – To improve the efficiency and reliability of London’s logistics system by optimising freight networks, improving kerbside loading and delivery space management, capturing the benefits of new technology, data tools, and innovative operational practices.
Inclusion – To reduce work‑related road risk for delivery drivers and riders, and support fair, safe, and improved working conditions across the logistics workforce.
Green growth – To enable faster uptake of zero emission vehicles (ZEV) within the sector, and support a transition to alternative, more sustainable, logistics modes, including rail, water, cargo bike and deliveries on foot.
A global capital – To strengthen London’s position as a world‑leading logistics hub by supporting continued investment, innovation, and sector development, contributing to national productivity and export growth.

The Logistics Plan will develop these objectives further and include a suite of key performance indicators (KPIs) to allow monitoring progress against these objectives.

Logistics is an enabler of growth, and London is ready to grow. A strong and sustainable logistics sector will be a vital enabler of this growth and the delivery of world-class infrastructure for Londoners. By developing the Logistics Plan, the GLA and TfL will affirm their support for the sector, to enable housing growth, improve productivity and deliver good growth.

Over the coming months, the GLA and TfL will continue to work on the delivery of the Logistics Plan, working first to complete the engagement and issue definition, followed by proposal development and testing. It is expected that the publication date will be in late 2026.

Cross River Partnership looks forward to supporting the development of the Plan, including feeding into findings from its 2025 London Freight Flows Study undertaken with Steer consultants: https://crossriverpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CRP-London-Freight-Flows-Study-Executive-Summary.pdf

Archives: News Articles

CRP in Action: Highlights from Recent Events

Walk This May for National Walking Month

Local Government Elections

CRP Board Holds In-Person Meeting at Iconic Tower Bridge Venue

CRP to Deliver First Stage of Westminster’s Sustainable City Charter Innovation Challenge

CRP Launches its Annual Report and Business Plan 2025–27

CRP Welcomes New Team Member

Collaboration & Co-Design Campaign & Walk This May for National Walking Month

CRP begins new e-bike assessment project with GSTT

London Logistics Plan 2026: Progress Update