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National Walking Month

26th April 2022 / Posted by CRP Team

May is the Living Streets National Walking Month. The challenge is to #try20 – walk for 20 minutes each day during May. This nationwide incentive has many benefits for both you and the city. By walking instead of using a car you can help improve your local air quality. But walking is not just about your environment, walking even for a short time improves your overall health and can reduce the risk of a number of preventable health conditions such as heart disease, certain cancers and Type 2 diabetes. It can also improve your mood, increase your vitamin D levels and help you engage with your local area and community.

Millennium Bridge Celebrates 20 Years

26th April 2022 / Posted by CRP Team

One of CRP’s most iconic projects, the Millennium Bridge, celebrates it’s 20th anniversary this year.  Along with CRP, other project partners were the City of London, Southwark Council, the Millennium Commission and Bridge House Trust.

The bridge was built to encourage more activity on the embankment near St Paul’s Cathedral and to bring visitors further south straight to the doors of one of Europe’s largest art galleries, the Tate Modern, and to other tourist attractions south of the river.

The design concept of the bridge was to create ‘a ribbon of steel’ across the river to maintain spectacular views from St Paul’s Cathedral and the Tate Modern. The bridge design was chosen through an international open competition held in 1996 by Southwark Council, the Financial Times, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. The competition was won by Foster & Partners and Sir Anthony Caro with ARUP as the engineering team.

The project was partially funded through the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) programme administered by the London Development Agency. Other funders included the project partners mentioned above.

Project partners and the bridge’s architectural designers and engineers will mark the occasion at an event to be held in May.

Spotlight On: City of London

26th April 2022 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP partner City of London Corporation are hosting a new exhibition at London Metropolitan Archives, to show the development of the city in incredible detail, from the late seventeenth century to the present day.

Magnificent Maps of London opened on 11th April. The exhibition includes the first surviving map of the city, Civitas Londinum, which is on display for the first time! This shows how the capital looked in Tudor times, including livestock-grazing fields near the Tower of London.

Other maps highlight the growth of London at a local level, for example parishes and localities, whereas others demonstrate the use of maps for presenting information which records the experience of previous generations of Londoners.

HSE Murals: Middle Park Primary School

26th April 2022 / Posted by Isidora Rivera Vollmer

We are happy to announce the completion of the first Healthy Streets Everyday mural at one of the Car Free Day 2021 mural competition winning schools: Middle Park Primary School (Royal Borough of Greenwich)!

Aspire finished painting the mural on 12th April and the results are astonishing! The mural’s design is based on the winning drawing created by Ashaè Millwood and Stanley Lorraine, two students from the school.

We would like to thank Aspire, the artist who brought Ashaè and Stanley’s concept to life!

Latest Healthy Streets Everyday Case Studies

26th April 2022 / Posted by Isidora Rivera Vollmer

Read our two new Healthy Streets Everyday case studies on Finchley’s cargo bike delivery scheme and exploring greening in London. 

Finchley’s Cargo Bike Couriers: Enabling low emission deliveries for businesses in Barnet.

Supported by the London Borough of Barnet, Healthy Streets Everyday helped fund an eight-month cargo bike delivery service and micro-consolidation hub in Finchley Town Centre. The service, which was provided by Zedify, helped local businesses to provide a great delivery experience to their customers, whilst also improving local air quality and congestion. Businesses were able to sign up to the scheme using a dedicated online platform, and also received a 50% discount on their first month of deliveries – what’s not to love!

Read the case study here.

Going Green: How small green spaces can make a difference.

Following the publication of CRP’s Healthy Streets Everyday (HSE) Greening Guidance, ‘Greening out the Grey: The value of Green Infrastructure for People and Places‘, the HSE Programme has helped fund several green infrastructure projects across London.

The examples listed in this case study include:

Read the case study here.

For further information, please contact CRP Project Manager Fiona Coull.

New CAV4 River Freight Documents

26th April 2022 / Posted by CRP Team
The Clean Air Villages 4 programme has entered its final quarter and the CRP team has been busy delivering air quality improvement initiatives. A last mile logistics trial has just launched, bringing goods into Brixton by zero emission means. There is a also a river freight pilot in the pipeline, aiming to bring goods into central London using the Thames.  

CRP is pleased to announce the publication of three new reports:
CRP and the Port of London Authority (PLA) commissioned Beckett Rankine to investigate the feasibility of handling light freight at London piers. ‘Light Freight: Design Solutions for Thames Freight Infrastructure’ provides costing and guidelines on pier adaptation that would be required for different pier structures and operational handling approaches to provide robust and agile solutions.
‘Monitoring of Butler’s Wharf and Dartford Pier’. CRP commissioned EMSOL to establish how air and noise pollution can be attributed to specific vessels and therefore help to understand the real-world pollution impact of moving freight to inland waterways in London.
‘Getting Started with River Freight: A Guide for Businesses‘ includes expertise from many groups on the river including information on the opportunities and challenges of river freight, setting up a project and a case study of DHL’s ongoing river freight project. For businesses looking to start using the river for cargo, there is a glossary of useful contacts.

Funding Success: Clean Air Freight London

26th April 2022 / Posted by Susannah Wilks

Cross River Partnership has been awarded £180,300 of funding by Urban Health, part of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation, to minimise the harmful emissions from freight within London Borough of Lambeth and London Borough of Southwark. 

Work is already underway on zero emissions logistics and consolidation of deliveries to Brixton businesses working with partners Brixton BID and Pedal Me.

CRP is also going to be commissioning a feasibility study into the practical infrastructure arrangements needed to implement increased rail freight into Lambeth and Southwark, including innovative combinations of freight with passengers.

To find out more, please contact CRP Project Manager Kate Fenton.

CRP’s Next Online Event

26th April 2022 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP’s next session in the Connect 4 Series will take place on Thursday 28th April 2022, 4pm – 4:45pm. This interactive session will feature presentations from expert speakers on how the Thames can contribute to a more sustainable London.

Register for Sustainable Cities: Reinventing the River

Alistair Gale, Director of Corporate Affairs, Strategy & Thames Vision at the Port of London Authority (PLA) will be presenting on The Thames Vision 2050 and consultation. Also speaking will be Ciron Edwards, The Illuminated River, presenting on the challenge of lighting nine of Central London’s great bridges, and helped prompt debate on the use of light in the night-time environment.

Dave Ebbrell, CRP Project Officer, will be introducing three new CRP river freight studies, including ‘Getting Started with River Freight: A Guide for Businesses‘, a Clean Air Villages 4 toolkit for those who are considering using the tidal Thames for the transportation of cargo, ‘River Freight Monitoring: Butler’s Wharf and Dartford Pier’ and ‘Light Freight: Design Solutions for Thames Freight Infrastructure’.

For more information, please contact CRP Communications Project Manager Rachael Aldridge.

Southwark Council Approves Sustainable Plan

30th March 2022 / Posted by CRP Team

The Southwark Plan 2022 was adopted by the Southwark Council Assembly on 23rd February. The plan, which replaces several older versions of development plans, sets out the vision, strategic objectives and brings together all the council’s planning policies and strategic targets for new homes, new jobs, open space and different types of development, while preserving and celebrating the borough’s history and heritage for the period 2019 to 2036. It forms the statutory development plan for the borough, along with the London Plan.

More details on the process is available in the Southwark Plan 2022 adoption statement.

Business Climate Challenge Prospectus and Application now live!

30th March 2022 / Posted by CRP Team

Have you heard about the Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC)? The BCC, developed with support from Bloomberg Associates, is an energy efficiency programme which supports businesses to reduce their energy consumption, to accelerate building decarbonisation efforts in London.

Emissions from heating and powering London’s commercial and industrial buildings currently make up 36% of the capital’s carbon footprint.

The programme provides free support to help make buildings more energy efficient, reduce costs and support businesses on their pathway to zero carbon.

Last year, the Mayor partnered with Better Bankside BID. 19 businesses joined the BCC, agreeing to reduce their building’s energy consumption by 10% within the first year! The GLA are now looking for ten business engagement partnered to hep deliver the expanded programmes. These can be Business Improvement Districts, Climate Change Alliances and Town Teams.

This year, the BCC will support a further 250 businesses to decarbonise their buildings and reduce their energy bills. Businesses signed up so far include London Marathon Events and Paper Round.

Take a look at the BCC case study with BE.Spoke, and hear from CRP’s Air Quality Ambassador Julie Tucker here!

Find out more about the process here.

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