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To mark World Rivers Day on Thursday 21st September, CRP Project Manager Sefinat Otaru participated in a panel discussion at the Oxo Tower along London’s South Bank.

World Rivers Day, which falls on the fourth Sunday of every September, celebrates the world’s rivers, strives to increase public awareness, and encourages better stewardship of the world’s waterways.

Chaired by Andrea Zick (Harvey Nichols), Michelle Yaa (Thames 21) and Sefinat discussed how the river affects our lives, and how we in turn impact the river. Following the discussion, attendees were encouraged to take part in litter picking along the Thames shore.

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

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

As part of our Defra-funded Clean Air Logistics London project, we supported Net Zero Marine Services to retrofit their workboat, Alb-E.

The vessel’s diesel-powered engine was replaced with an electric motor and battery, making it the first fully electric workboat in London. By going electric, Alb-E effectively eliminated its air-polluting emissions, demonstrating how the transition to cleaner vessels on the Thames is possible.

Formerly named Albert, Alb-E is currently moored at Hermitage Pier. For more information, please contact CRP Project Manager Sefinat Otaru – sefinatotaru@crossriverpartnership.org

The CRP Team is really pleased to be working with CRP Partners to continue a strategic approach to the form and use of railway arches, viaducts and undercroft spaces across London.

CRP’s interest in these spaces stretches back to its previous Light at the End of the Tunnel programme, which used Section 106 Planning Gain money to transform arches across the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, including: housing businesses, restaurants and bars; installing artistic lighting effects; creating new walking and cycling routes.

Since then, Boroughs and BIDs alike have seen the potential of arch and viaduct spaces and have trailblazed exciting programmes to bring them alive. The Low Line project and the Camden Highline are two cases in point.

CRP’s latest initiative involves supporting the creation of a freight hub in the undercroft space at Waterloo Station – sign up to our next CRP Conversation event on 11th October here to find out more.

For further information please contact CRP’s Director Susannah Wilks – susannahwilks@crossriverpartnership.org or CRP Sustainable Transport Manager Ross Phillips – rossphillips@crosssriverpartnership.org

Following a fantastic launch event at Somerset House in June, we’re really pleased that CRP’s Smarter Greener Logistics programme (SGL) is fully underway!

Over the last month, the CRP team have been working closely with partners to understand their main priorities and objectives for the programme. This has fed into the SGL programme development and delivery planning, which we updated partners on at our first Task Force Meeting on 21st August.

Starting with a tour of the Better Bankside Green Logistics Centre, the SGL Task Force was an opportunity for Partners to get together to discuss the SGL Programme, share ideas and network. The afternoon included a networking lunch, before diving into the main SGL Task Force Meeting to discuss programme delivery.

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

Welcome to Knightsbridge Partnership, the latest Business Improvement District to join Cross River Partnership!

Together with their members and partners, Knightsbridge Partnership are working to deliver an exceptional destination to live, work and visit, providing for the local community while attracting high value visitors from the UK and abroad.

Only 2 more months to go! We have gathered interesting insights of our micro logistics hub trial in Pimlico, Westminster City Council, so far:

🌷 4 main types of deliveries taking place from the hub: parcels, food, battery swaps, and fresh flowers

🗺️ 18 London boroughs currently being serviced by this hub

🔥 33 football pitch-sized forest fires worth of CO2 emissions have been saved so far

Throughout these four months so far, the e-cargo bikes have travelled 9,377 km (5,827 miles), which led to a total emissions reduction of 1,613 kg of CO2, 6,388 g of NOx, and 105 g of PM2.5 when compared to polluting van deliveries.

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

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

This month, members of the CRP team spent the morning discovering the hubs, undercrofts and arches from London Bridge to Waterloo Station. Unlocking the potential of underutilised space in London for sustainable logistics is a key aspect of CRP’s Smarter Greener Logistics (SGL) programme. SGL is a Defra-funded project led by Westminster City Council in collaboration with 26 project partners which aims to minimise the impact of freight on noise, air quality, traffic and pavement space in London.

The tour included a visit to the undercroft at London Bridge Station, the Pedal Me distribution centre and a micro logistics hub in Pimlico. The team also visited Waterloo, where CRP have been working to unlock the logistics potential of a large space beneath Waterloo Station.

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

28th September marks World Maritime Day, which focuses on the importance of transporting via water safely, maritime security and safeguarding the marine environment. This year’s theme is “MARPOL at 50 – Our commitment goes on” (International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships), which represents the organisation’s 50-year long standing efforts to protect the environment from the impact of shipping pollution from operational and accidental causes. Find out more here.

CRP has submitted nominations across four categories for the National Maritime Awards, which celebrates innovative and outstanding achievements of small to medium enterprises across the UK maritime sector. Our nomination follows the successful four-week London Light River Freight Trial, delivering London’s first daily, multi-supplier, river freight trial that also included return deliveries.

This trial championed the decarbonisation of London’s logistics sector, promoting river freight as a sustainable logistical solution in the transition towards net-zero emissions as well as reinventing last-mile delivery models. The success of this trial included collaborative working with the following key partners: Grid Smarter Cities, Lyreco UK & Ireland, Pedal Me, Port of London Authority (PLA), Speedy Services and Thames Clippers Logistics and formed part of the Defra-funded Clean Air Logistics for London (CALL) project.

9th August 2023 was International Coworking Day.

It’s held on that date every year as the anniversary of software engineer Brad Neuberg publishing an article that introduced the coworking concept to the world, in 2005.

The article’s message resonates to this day: “If we work at a traditional 9 to 5 company job, we get community and structure, but lose freedom and the ability to control our own lives. If we work for ourselves at home, we gain independence but suffer loneliness and bad habits from not being surrounded by a work community.”

CRP and its partners are working hard to find the best of all worlds for communities, businesses, High Streets, Town Centres. We are all coworking on a daily basis as we collaborate across professional disciplines, sectors and geographies to deliver solutions to London’s challenges. Let’s keep going so that every day is a Coworking Day!

Archives: News Articles

Marking World Rivers Day

Seeking participants for Westminster Clean Air Walking Routes research

CALL Vessel Retrofit Complete

Strategic Approach to Arches

Smarter Greener Logistics is Underway

Welcome Knightsbridge Partnership

Month 4 of the Micro Logistics Hub Trial

Discovering Hubs, Undercrofts and Arches

World Maritime Day

International Coworking Day