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Click here to join Cross River Partnership for Session 9 of CRP’s Connect 4 Series –
Good Parks for London 2022 Report Launch

This event, taking place on Thursday 29th September, 4pm – 4:45pm, will launch the Good Parks for London 2022 report.

Headlined ‘Keeping Parks Clean’, the report focuses on litter and waste management, featuring excellent case studies from across London. CRP will also be launching brand new guidance ‘Funding Healthy Streets Assets’ for effective public private partnership in delivering Healthy Streets projects.

We will be hearing from

Julia Thrift, Director of Healthier Placemaking, Town & Country Planning Association
Julian Woolley, National Landscape Design Director, GL Hearn
Tony Leach, Chief Executive, Parks for London
A representative from the top performing London Borough
Ross Phillips, Sustainable Transport Project Manager, CRP
Rachael Aldridge, Communications Project Manager, CRP

If you would like to attend this hybrid event in-person, please email CRP Communications Manager Rachael Aldridge: rachaelaldridge@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP is happy to announce that we have won a Green Apple Environment Award for Environmental Best Practice for the Clean Air Villages 4 project!

The Green Apple award looks to recognise, reward and share environmental best practice and the final awards will be presented at the Houses of Parliament in November.

We look forward to continuing to promote innovative projects in future across London and beyond and we are very happy to have been recognised as part of this award.

CRP partner Port of London Authority launched their Thames Vision 2050 at City Hall on 8th September. This is a plan for the Thames which has been a product of extensive consultation and dialogue with the many stakeholders on the river. The vision has 3 key focuses: Trading Thames, Destination Thames and Natural Thames, all with the aim of a thriving river in line with the Mayor of London’s Net Zero by 2030 policy.

The event also showcased a fantastic poem, entitled ‘This River’ which was written by poet Laurie Bolger in collaboration with young people who have a connection to the river.

CRP looks forward to continuing to work with the PLA to help to make this vision a reality. CRP’s Clean Air Logistics for London project focuses specifically on moving freight via the Thames in line with the PLA’s Vision.

For more information, please contact CRP Project Officer Dave Ebbrell – davidebbrell@crossriverpartnership.org

Earlier this month, members of the Cross River Partnership (CRP) team met with colleagues from the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham (LBHF) for a scoping visit of Chelsea Harbour Pier.

As part of CRP’s Clean Air Logistics for London Programme, CRP is working with LBHF to create a small parcel locker and cargo bike facility in the vicinity of Chelsea Harbour Pier to encourage more river freight.

The proposed facility would also benefit residents of the local Chelsea Harbour estate, providing them with a secure and alternative location for parcel deliveries. This will help to reduce the likelihood of missed deliveries, thereby improving air quality and congestion in the local area.

Find out more about CRP’s Clean Air Logistics for London Programme here. For more information, please contact CRP Programme Manager Fiona Coull – fionacoull@crossriverpartnership.org.

CRP will be formally launching our latest guidance document, Funding Healthy Streets Assets, delivered through a collaboration between our Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership and Healthy Streets Everyday programmes. This will be launched at our next Connect 4 Series event on Thursday 29th September at 4pm.

Read the full report here and Executive Summary here.

This guidance document support local authorities by exploring how to creatively fund and maintain healthy streets schemes moving forward with public and private sector partnerships. This will act as a valuable tool for local authorities, BIDs and landowners to collaboratively and proactively implement healthy streets schemes that benefit everyone in the local area.

Momentum Transport Consultancy and Volterra were commissioned by CRP to explore this in the context of challenging funding environments, the growing importance of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) and a continued blurring of public and private-sector owned land.

If you are interested to hear more, please sign up to our next our next Connect 4 Series event on Thursday 29th September, 4pm – we’d love to see you there!

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

CRP has been invited to take part in a number of trans-national funding bids to the HORIZON European funding source. The call closes on 6^th September 2022, so we’ve been extremely busy getting our thoughts entered into keyboards!

The bid(s) will be all about continuing to help London’s streets work well for all users, as well as supporting freight on its sustainability journey.

Contributing to one or more of these funding bids potentially gives CRP and its partners the chance to increase the amount and length of activity that we can deliver via London projects, such as the Defra-funded Clean Air Logistics London programme and the Impact on Urban Health Clean Air Freight project.

Thank you to Westminster City Council for playing the lead partner role in CRP’s funding bids, and thank you to Transport for London for providing extremely helpful support letters.

Pre-Brexit CRP lead many successful European-funded programmes, including FREVUE (Freight Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe), Freight TAILS (Tailored and Innovative Logistics Solutions), LaMiLo (Last Mile Logistics).

Good luck to everyone applying for HORIZON funding!

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

Cycling any form of bike, adapted cycle or cargo bike in London may seem daunting at first. Fortunately there are loads of great options for those who want a bit of extra help to get out and about and experience the air quality, wellbeing and time-saving benefits that it brings.

This month, through the Defra-funded Clean Air Villages 4 project, several staff members from Lewisham Council and Lewisham Homes received a half-day of training from Bikeworks staff with their brand-new cargo bike. During the training, the participants, some of whom hadn’t cycled before, learnt about pedalling, turning, using the electric assist and finally went out on the roads of Ladywell!

CRP has made a video case study on the training which can be found here – detailing how others can get involved, and we’ve also recently launched our Business Cargo Bike Guide with loads of useful information for organisations who have a cargo bike or are looking to get one.

“I was hoping that when residents get to see that the staff are taking on this active travel method and maybe they wwill call for something similar that they can rent in the borough” (Jenny Chaplin, Lewisham Homes)

For more information on cargo bikes and cycle training in general, please contact CRP Project Officer Dave Ebbrell: davidebbrell@crossriverpartnership.org. To book in training with Bikeworks, please contact George Hurford: george.hurford@bikeworks.org.uk

Join CRP for our next online event ‘ESG and the Evolution of the Workplace’, taking place on Thursday 18th August, 4pm – 4:45pm. We will be hearing from Caroline Williams at Junee and Maggie Berry OBE at Heart of the City on the circular economy and how to engage the workforce. CRP Project Manager Kate Fenton will be presenting on CRP’s river freight pilot, which aims to assess how goods delivered by the river and handled at Woods Quay, located at Embankment, can be incorporated within urban logistics.

For more information, please email CRP Communications Manager Rachael Aldridge: rachaelaldridge@crossriverpartnership.org

More events have been announced for Totally Thames 2022, the annual celebration of London’s river!

The festival will include the Thames’s first illuminated night-time flotilla, the return of the popular Kids’ Choir and Sing for Water, and a fascinating exploration of the heritage of Trinity Buoy Wharf and the Leamouth Peninsula. Celebrations include an impressive illuminated flotilla procession from Chelsea to Tower Bridge. All the participating crews are raising funds for the RNLI, supporting the construction of a new lifeboat station at Waterloo Bridge.

River of Hope is an installation of 200 silk flags which will be exhibited from 24th September – 30th October at the National Maritime Museum. The flags were created by young people from across the UK and the Commonwealth, with the designs inspired by their hopes and aspirations for a greener, more sustainable future. The flags were paraded along The Mall as part of the Platinum Jubilee Pageant in June.

Take a look at the Totally Thames website for more information!

CRP is delivering trials and projects that are supporting local areas with more consolidation and more zero emission deliveries. By re-prioritising space for micro-logistics hubs – in essence, a bit of secure, physical space that deliveries can be sent to away from polluted areas – which can be sorted and sent on – and then delivered by cargo bike, walking freight or electric vehicle.

Through Clean Air Freight, CRP are supporting Brixton’s businesses with deliveries by cargo bike, from rented space in SE1. Businesses re-direct their deliveries, whether its flowers, beer, coffee, crisps or newsletters, to the SE1 address and then they are delivered by Pedal Me by cargo bike.

CRP are hoping to build on this with more micro hub trials in Clean Air Logistics for London. So, if you are a business or courier and looking to trial micro hubs, please get in touch with Ross, Sustainable Transport Project Manager at CRP: rossphillips@crossriverpartnership.org

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Sign up to CRP’s Next Hybrid Event

CRP Wins Green Apple Award!

PLA Thames Vision 2050 Event

Chelsea Harbour Pier Site Visit

Funding Healthy Streets Assets

HORIZON Funding Bids

Spotlight On: Cargo Bike and Cycle Training

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Totally Thames 2022

CAF Intervention – Micro Hub Trials