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Charlie and Sobastian: First Month at CRP

18th July 2023 / Posted by CRP Team

I joined CRP at the end of June and have really enjoyed my first month! I’ve spent my time so far getting to know other members of the team, and familiarising myself with past and current projects. CRP is a great working environment – everyone has been very welcoming and supportive. I’ve also been enjoying the fantastic views of London from the office!

My first week included the CRP Summer Event at Somerset House, which was a great opportunity to meet collaborators and partners. Since then I’ve been working on Monitoring and Data Analysis, and helping wrap up some of pieces of work for CALL. I’m looking forward to working on delivery of the cargo bike and walking freight workstream as part of SGL, as well as supporting on data monitoring and evaluation and comms across all workstreams.

Previously I was working at the University of Westminster on a research project looking at working conditions and scaling up in London’s cargo bike sector. I also studied for an MSc at UCL in Transport and City Planning, and wrote a dissertation looking at the governance, monitoring, and evaluation of London’s e-scooter trial. I’m excited to be working on some similar topic areas at CRP, but with a greater focus on on-the-ground delivery.

CRP Project Officer Charlie Couve – charliecouve@crossriverpartnership.org

Joining CRP in the last week of June was very exciting to say the least! I was able to meet the team, collectively and individually, who are all amazing and have great enriching experiences within sustainability and are currently working across several exiting project streams.

My first day entailed witnessing the launch of the first urban e-walker, as part of the Defra-funded CALL programme in Fitzrovia and networking with stakeholders. Since then, I have also been working on Monitoring and Data Analysis, and supporting other pieces of work for our CALL programme. Additionally, I will be working on Click and Collect/Parcel Locker installations and Shared EV Schemes and Fleet Electrification and data monitoring as part of SGL.

My background is within education, sport, planning, retail, and behaviour change. Previously working in numerous schools, private organisations, and local authorities. I have an undergrad in Sport and Community Development and have recently become an alumni at the University of Westminster, following the completion of my MSc in Psychology in February 2023. The great benefit of joining CRP is being able to offer an array of experience across several fields and working across several workstreams to support a better London for tomorrow.

CRP Project Officer Sobastian Frazer – sobastianfrazer@crossriverpartnership.org

EC BID Social Media Strategy – #SummerinEC

18th July 2023 / Posted by CRP Team

We’re really pleased to be working with our client EC BID, City of London, on a three-month social media campaign throughout the summer. #SummerinEC celebrates all that the Eastern City has to offer! Themes for each summer month are:

  • June: Green Spaces
  • July: Iconic Buildings and Places
  • August: Hospitality Offering

Check out EC BID’s social media channels for more information.

For further information about CRP’s Communications Offering, please contact CRP Communications Project Manager Rachael Aldridge – rachaelaldridge@crossriverpartnership.org

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

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