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Centre for London is working with the Mayor of London, London boroughs, businesses, universities, charities and Londoners to create a shared vision for London to 2050 and beyond as part of the London Future Review.

The Your Future London online platform gives Londoners the chance to have their say in the city’s future. This is part of city-wide consultation, aiming to build a shared vision for London. Make choices between a range of potential policy ideas, from lower taxes to safer streets, cleaner air to free public transport.

If you could decide, what would you want to see in London’s future?

World Day of Social Justice, 20th February, has been celebrated each year since 2009. This is an opportunity to recognise the need to promote social justice, which includes efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion, gender equality, unemployment, human rights, and social protections.

The importance of social justice is paramount, now more than ever. This year’s theme is ‘A Call for Social Justice in the Digital Economy‘, as the digital economy is transforming the world of work.

CRP has previously worked with London Boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham,
Southwark and Wandsworth on the South London Innovation Corridor (SLIC) to develop a commissioning framework for the Talent Development strand, outlining cross-borough creative and digital employment initiatives to support disadvantaged groups into work in the creative and digital industries.

For more information, please contact CRP Project Manager Sefinat Otaru.

February is LGBT+ History Month – a month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer history, as well as a means of raising awareness for the issues faced by LGBT+ people. The first celebration in February 2005 saw the organisation of over 150 events around the UK. 16 years later, London’s rich LGBT+ heritage is being explored widely through online resources – from quizzes, lectures, storytelling and more. The theme for this year is ‘Body, Mind, Spirit’.

CRP’s accountable body Westminster City Council (WCC) are hosting external speaker external speaker events and opportunities to learn more about LGBT+ history in the borough this month. WCC are proud to celebrate diversity and challenge prejudice. To sign up to these events, please contact CRP’s Project Officer Rachael Aldridge for more information.

As the Lockdown continues, the CRP team remains fully committed to maintaining personal health and wellbeing. We know that if we look after ourselves, then in turn we can look after CRP’s partners, funders and communities even better too!

To that end, the CRP team has committed to a February Step Challenge, building on the success of the November Step Challenge, where collectively the CRP team managed to walk all the way to Minsk! If the CRP team had undertaken all of those miles in a diesel vehicle, walking would save*:

1,682g of NOx
47g of PM2.5
89g of PM10
448kg of CO2

Many of CRP’s Step Challenge miles are covered during walking meetings, whereby we get work done on the move on our phones. The CRP team are also keeping our bodies and our brains active and happy via Transport Quizzes (they’re fun honestly!), Virtual Yoga Sessions, Tea Time Chats, Cocktail Making and more!

(*figures calculated by CRP’s measureBEST emissions calculator tool, assuming that journeys took place in Inner London during PM peak).

If you’ve got any further tips on health and wellbeing, please do let us know! For more information, please contact CRP’s Director Susannah Wilks.

CRP is excited to announce it will be launching a shared electric van in Shepherd’s Bush as part of the Clean Air Villages 3 project.

In collaboration with London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, Zipcar and Land Securities, a fully electric vehicle will be available for local businesses and community organisations to use for free. This electric venture will encourage behaviour change around the use of electric vehicles and showcase the benefits of shared vehicle schemes.

CRP is currently engaging with the local business community to sign-up interested parties. Journeys made by an electric van versus a diesel equivalent will result in a significant reduction in harmful pollutants; cleaner air is better for both health and business.

For further information about the scheme and to register your interest, please contact CRP Project Manager Kate Fenton.

CRP is excited to be developing a new online web-based map tool that will host details of available sites across central London that have been put forward as potential logistics hub locations by Local Authorities and Landowners.

The recently published The Potential for Urban Logistics Hubs in Central London study was completed on behalf of CLSRTP to showcase the available logistics sites that could be used by courier/ freight companies to increase greener ‘last mile’ deliveries in Central London, in turn reducing air pollution, congestion and carbon emissions.

The new website will support freight logistics companies who are actively searching to occupy a central London location, in addition to supporting owners of the sites looking to advertise their spaces to prospective freight companies for their sustainable last mile delivery purposes.

The website is expected to be launched in late March 2021. We will announce the launch in our newsletter and across our social media channels.

For more information, please contact CRP Communications and Business Development Manager Joshua West.

Since the start of the pandemic in the UK, in March 2020, the Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP) have increased the frequency of their meetings to adapt to the changing nature of transport use across London. The partners have shaped the CLSRTP research projects to coordinate the TfL Streetspace responses and transport sector more widely, in adapting to future changes as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.

CRP has collated all innovative research projects into an informative summary report, which gives a concise review of the key achievements that have taken place since April 2020. The projects showcase the successful collaboration of the partnership, who are pioneering bold new methods of transport strategy that will ensure a resilient and sustainable course for the future of transport management in the capital.

CRP’s recently released The Potential for Urban Logistics Hubs in Central London and Mobility Justice and Transport Inclusivity reports have been shared by Smart Transport and TransportXtra
respectively! We’re very pleased to see the important research being disseminated across the transport sector and we will continue to expand on the key messages with our partners on how the practical recommendations mentioned in both reports can be implemented across the Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership and Healthy Streets Everyday projects.

For more information, please contact CRP Communications and Business Development Manager Joshua West.

This week, we are showcasing the work of CRP partner Groundwork London, a social and environmental regeneration charity that works with individuals and communities to improve their environment and support greener living and working.

Groundwork London’s multi-disciplinary team has been delivering projects in London for over 30 years, helping to create a brighter, greener future for all Londoners. They currently deliver over 500 projects per year, equipping individuals, businesses and communities with the knowledge and tools required to make a positive difference to their local and global environment.

Groundwork London are working with CRP to deliver engaging active travel workshops tailored to all their BID communities and open to all levy paying businesses in the areas. Active travel means getting about using your own energy, whether that’s by walking, jogging, cycling or even roller-blading! The workshops are part of the Defra-funded Clean Air Villages project. These 1-hour online workshops will give you the facts and benefits of incorporating active travel into your life and how to get started. Whether you’re looking to increase your own health and wellbeing or help your staff boost their productivity and performance through a healthy lifestyle, this is definitely for you.

Wednesday 24th February, 2pm – Active Travel Workshop
Monday 1st March, 2pm – Active Travel and Cycling Workshop

For more information, please contact Groundwork London Community Project Officer Suzanne Gibbon.

CRP’s Vivacity Monitoring Project is reaching it’s final stages, with the last 3-month trial period being completed earlier this month and data analysis now in full swing.

The project has involved installing 16 Vivacity sensors across London at locations chosen by partners from CRP’s Clean Air Villages 3 and Healthy Streets Everyday programmes. By providing partners with these rich datasets and in-depth analysis, CRP is helping to provide the proof of concept for partner interventions as well as robust guidance and support in terms of monitoring and data interpretation.

The Vivacity sensors utilise Artificial Intelligence technology to analyse classified traffic and active travel counts, such as pedestrians, cars, cyclists, buses, vans etc. that cross the sensors “count line”. The sensors are also capable of monitoring pedestrian interactions, helping to understand the relationship between pedestrian numbers and space for social distancing. Additionally, the count data collected can be integrated with CRP’s in-house measureBEST tool to calculate estimated emissions associated with cars, LGVs and OGVs within the locality of the sensor.

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

Archives: News Articles

Your Future London

World Day of Social Justice

LGBT+ History Month

CRP Team Wellbeing

Shepherding Businesses Towards an Electric Future

Development Begins on new Urban Logistics Hub website

New CLSRTP Summary Report Launched

Latest CRP Reports Shared by Trade Press

CRP’s Spotlight On: Groundwork London

Final Stages of CRP’s Vivacity Monitoring Project