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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:

the installation of an ivy green screen at Queensbridge Primary School in the London Borough of Hackney
the installation of a parklet at St Clement Danes Primary School in Westminster City Council

Read the case study here.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Earth Day returns this year on Friday 22nd April as we celebrate our planet and collaborate to campaign and act for the future of the Earth. This year, Earth Day’s theme is Invest In Our Planet, as we need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably).

Investing in a green, equitable and prosperous future will take public and private sector leadership across the world. CRP has shown the value of investing in projects that incorporate both public and private partners, that lead to improvements in air quality, environmental health, liveability, green infrastructure, and much more. CRP’s Clean Air Villages 4 programme shows cleaner air can be delivered for the planet’s future through ambitious freight solutions with our public and private partners.

So, this Earth Day, invest in the planet and continue to do so moving forward. As it is my partner also celebrates another year of her life on 22nd April, we will be celebrating her B-EarthDay by going to one of our favourite sustainable restaurants in London.

Contact CRP Project Manager Ross Phillips for more information.

World Health Day is on the 7th April every year, the date of the first World Health Assembly by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1948. The day has been celebrated every year since 1950, with a different theme each time. This year, the theme is “Our Planet, Our Health” focusing on the “link between the health of our planet and the health of humans, animals, plants – all living creatures.”

This theme is aligned with Cross River Partnership’s work, especially our Clean Air Villages 4 project which, in collaboration with 26 partners, seeks to improve the air quality across different London ‘villages’, where both air pollution and population density levels are high. The WHO is calling on everyone to reimagine a world where clean air, water and food are available to all, where economies are focused on planetary and human health and well-being, and where healthy, people-centred cities, villages and communities create conditions for people to lead better lives.

After three years, the Mayor’s Air Quality funded Clean Air Thames project is coming to an end.

Despite difficulties linked to Covid-19 and a labour shortage, the participating vessels – GPS Marine Contractors’ GPS Anglia and the Port of London Authority’s Driftwood 2 – successfully completed their retrofits.

We look forward to discovering how effective the exercise has been in reducing emissions and sharing the results and lessons learned from the project over the next few months.

For more information please contact CRP Project Manager Sefinat Otaru.

CRP partner the Port of London Authority (PLA) has released the draft of its Thames Vision 2050 for consultation.

The consultation document and other information is on this webpage.

CRP is especially looking forward to continuing to work with the PLA on its Trading Thames theme. The PLA are one of the 10 partners involved in CRP’s latest Defra-funded programme – Clean Air Logistics for London (CALL). Shifting more freight deliveries into central London from road to river will have great Air Quality improvement benefits, and using zero emission cargo bikes, electric vehicles and walking freight for the last miles will help too.

The Vision consultation will close on Saturday, 30 April 2022 at midday. Feedback can be submitted via the online survey (you can find it at the end of the Vision webpage), by email, or letter, should you prefer.

There will be several public consultation events – details on the webpage above.

CRP looks forward to working with the PLA and other London partners to implement this exciting vision over the coming years.

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