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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!

Scaling Up: Monthly bulk deliveries on the Thames

30th June 2023 / Posted by Fiona Coull

CRP has recently launched the River Freight Pilot Part Two – Scaling up: Monthly bulk deliveries on the Thames!

The trial is the second edition of CRP’s River Freight Pilot, which operated one delivery per week, for six weeks, over the summer of 2022.

This year’s six-month trial is focused on the monthly bulk delivery of goods to make river freight more economically viable for the suppliers involved in the trial, and there is an ambition for the service to become a permanent feature of their future logistics operations. The trial is a collaboration between Absolutely Courier, Antalis, CPBS Marine Services, Complete, Transport for London River Services, Mayflower Washroom Solutions, The Northbank BID and the Port of London Authority.

Goods are loaded at TfL’s Woolwich Ferry, Royal Borough of Greenwich, and travel into central London via the Thames to Temple Pier in City of Westminster. Cargo bikes, operated by Absolutely Courier, are then used to deliver goods from Temple Pier to their final destinations.

Read the official press release here and watch our Northbank Business Question & Answer session to find out how businesses in The Northbank BID area can get involved!

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

Rail Freight into London

30th June 2023 / Posted by Susannah Wilks

CRP is continuing its work with the Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT), Network Rail (NWR) and the Department for Transport (DfT) to try to get more freight into London via rail rather than via road.

The rise of low-volume, high-margin markets requiring fast delivery, such as fast-fashion, have been identified as being suitable for fast rail freight. 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) could be saved each year by using rail freight, which could take 8,300 HGVs off the road.

As part of its Clean Air Logistics for London (CALL) and Smarter Greener Logistics (SGL) programmes, CRP has been busy commissioning transport consultants Steer and Intermodality to model the beneficial impacts of bringing more freight into London via rail, and then delivering it across London via zero emission modes such as e-cargo bikes.

Results will be available over the summer, but we are anticipating that they could include significant job creation and economic opportunities as well as huge positive environmental benefits for Londoners.

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

CALL’s Final Month

30th June 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 second 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 RFP for a courier to occupy an urban logistics hub in 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.

If you would like to find out more about Clean Air Logistics for London, or any of the initiatives mentioned above, please contact CRP Programme Manager Fiona Coull – fionacoull@crossriverpartnership.org

New Starters Charlie and Sobastian

30th June 2023 / Posted by Susannah Wilks

The CRP team is really pleased to welcome two new starters – Project Officers Charlie Couve and Sobastian Frazer.

They both join CRP with a great deal of fabulous experience, that we know all of the public and private CRP Partners will find invaluable.

Within the CRP Team, Katherine Fairfax has been made a Senior Project Officer, and Fiona Coull a Senior Programme Manager, recognising the amazing work that they are continuing to deliver on behalf of the partnership. Well done both!

For further information please contact CRP Director Susannah Wilks –  susannahwilks@crossriverpartnership.org

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