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World Health Day, Wednesday 7th April

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

This day is celebrated to mark the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) first Health Assembly in 1948. Seven decades later, the WHO’s impact in shaping and advocating for gold standard in healthcare has effected us all in many ways.

Today, we have a much richer understanding of what contributes to a positive mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing, especially the role that our environment plays in our wellbeing.

At CRP, we work on a range of projects that realign the importance of a clean and safe environment on our health. Projects such as Healthy Streets Everyday, Clean Air Villages and Clean Air Thames are dedicated to improve air quality through collaboration and positively reinforce London’s residents’, businesses’ and visitors’ wellbeing.

If you’re interested in joining and collaborating with us to help improve London’s air quality, please contact CRP Project Officer Anusha Rajamani.

Zoe Greindl reflects on her Internship at CRP

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

Over the last few months, I have joined CRP every Thursday as part of my Masters in Climate Change at King’s College London. Even remotely, I was warmly welcomed by the whole team and cannot believe how quickly the time has gone by!

I have had the opportunity to work across exciting projects; engaging with local businesses, analysing Vivacity monitoring data and using design tools to create communications content. I was also fortunate to attend a media and communications training by MediaFirst, a workshop on active travel by Groundwork London, CRP’s Lunchtime Launches and meetings with the Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership and Clean Air Villages 3 partners.

I am extremely grateful to the whole CRP team for being so welcoming, kind and supportive throughout my internship. I have learnt so much during my short time at CRP and being part of such worthwhile
projects with a great team has been an invaluable experience for me!

On behalf of the whole CRP team, thank you Zoe for all your hard work at CRP!

Upcoming Best Practice Case Studies

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

As Clean Air Villages 3 (CAV3) comes to a close, CRP has prepared five inspiring case studies as part of the solutions developed during the project. Each case study shares experiences, lessons
learned and results of CAV3, in partnership with local authorities, businesses and communities regarding:

  • shared cargo bike schemes
  • supporting businesses to switch to electric vehicles
  • the development of clean air routes across the villages part of the project
  • Vivacity sensors monitoring traffic and footfall
  • 17 CRP LiveShare sessions offered last year.

CRP is very proud of the successes throughout the CAV3 programme, which have had meaningful and tangible outcomes, including engaging with over 970 businesses, the launch of a shared electric van (EV) scheme launching on the Shepherds Bush area, and the addition of 37 businesses to the CRP Clean Air Villages Directory.​

The cargo bike case study will showcase the seven schemes launched to support local businesses, community organisations, pharmacies, charities and food banks to deliver essential items by zero-emission methods to those vulnerable and isolating.

CAV3 also tracked 18,000 miles of driving behaviour to inform users of diesel and petrol vehicles the best electric vehicle alternatives available to them.

14 new Clean Air Routes have been created to encourage people to breathe better in their area. An additional case study focusing on Vivacity monitoring showcases how monitoring traffic and footfall in 9 local authorities and 4 BIDs has helped organisations to better understand their areas.

Finally, CRP’s LiveShare case study showcases the 17 interactive webinar events, which promoted behaviour change to improve local air quality at both local and national scales.

Roll on Clean Air Villages 4!

For more information, please contact CRP Project Officer Carina Mesquita.

Shepherds Bush Shared Electric Van Launching Soon

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

As part of the Clean Air Villages 3 project, CRP is excited to announce that registration for the shared electric van will be available over the next few months. Please register your interest via this short form.

This will be the second shared electric scheme available for businesses in London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham – the Fulham van is also currently available.

Landsec at West12 Shopping Centre have been a great stakeholder in this project and will be facilitating the space for the van and charging access.

For more information on how to take advantage of this scheme please get in contact with CRP Senior Project Officer Laura Jacklin.

Hammersmith and Hatton Garden BIDs achieve successful ballot results

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

Businesses have overwhelmingly voted YES to continue Hammersmith BID and Hatton Garden BID, for another five years!

Of those businesses that voted, 80% voted ‘YES’ at the ballot for Hatton Garden and 86% voted ‘YES’ favour of Hammersmith BID. This support is particularly valued against the backdrop of a global pandemic and national lockdown, as many of the BIDs’ businesses are temporarily closed or working remotely.

Hammersmith BID will focus on delivering on its project areas, as referenced in its Business Plan 2021 – 2026: Shaping Hammersmith’s Future. This includes Public Realm and Green Investment, Security and Resilience, and Community and Partnerships.

With the economy beginning to open up once again, and businesses eager to stabilise and grow, Hatton Garden BID stands ready to support the Hatton Garden business community. The BID’s second term commitments seek to maximise the growth opportunities on the horizon and tackle issues that could hinder business growth and area vibrancy.

CRP looks forward to continuing our strong relationship with the BIDs as part of our ongoing project delivery.

Cleaner Journeys, Cleaner Air for All

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

Last week, CRP featured in Air Quality News, within the feature article ‘Cargo bikes – The Future of Zero Emission Last-mile Deliveries‘.

As part of Clean Air Villages 3, we have launched 7 cargo bike schemes across London, and supported many businesses and communities with these deliveries. 596 miles have been covered by cargo bikes to date, resulting savings of 204kg of CO2, 733g of NOx, and 20g PM10, benefiting people’s health and wellbeing!

Clean Air Villages 4: Coming Soon to a Borough Near You!

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP is extremely honoured to be a recipient of Defra’s Air Quality Grant, which will allow us to continue delivering air quality improvement initiatives in the new Clean Air Villages 4 (CAV4) project.

The CRP Team is excited to be building on the work and partnerships developed during Clean Air Villages 1, 2 and 3. Through CAV4, the CRP team will work with 25 partners to deliver ambitious Freight Solutions for a Clean Air business recovery from COVID-19 across 10 Local Authorities.

As one of the many deliverables of the project, CAV4 will enhance CRP’s measureBEST monitoring tool to capture, measure and analyse pollutants (including NO2, CO2, PMs) across 25 locations identified by the Greater London Authority as air quality focus areas, which are characterised by high levels of air pollution and population density.

The Clean Air Villages 4 project will run from 1st April 2021 until 30th June 2022.

For more information, please contact CRP Project Manager Kate Fenton.

Town Centre Futures Report Launch

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP is pleased to launch a new study ‘Town Centre Futures‘; an innovative cross-sector study providing practical recommendations for London’s Local Authorities, Business Improvement Districts, landowners and other strategic agencies, on how we can recover from the Covid-pandemic in greener and cleaner way, and enhance the roles of all of London’s Town Centres going forward.

The research, delivered by Centre for London as part of the CRP managed Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership, inter-links transport, economic, environmental, cultural and health aspects of London’s future. 10 typologies across London have been focussed on which transect London’s major centres, district centres and neighbourhood centres.

The research has shown that London has enormous value based on collaboration and innovation, and partnerships will be key to delivering a successful recovery over the next few years.

For more information, please contact CRP Project Officer Rachael Aldridge.

Clean Air Community LinkedIn Group: Open to All

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

Earlier this year, as part of our Clean Air Villages 3 (CAV3) Air Quality Ambassador programme in partnership with City of London Corporation, we launched the Clean Air Community LinkedIn group – a platform for London’s professionals to share, engage and collaborate regarding air quality related initiatives or programmes.

Now, with CAV3 delivery wrapping up, we’re excited to announce that the LinkedIn Clean Air Community Group is opening to the Greater London community. Now called the London Clean Air Community group, we welcome all Londoners who have an interest in air pollution, solutions and improving our air quality to join, network, share and help each other in achieving our collective mission of creating a cleaner, healthier London for all.

We encourage all our CRP partners, followers and collaborators to join! For more information, please contact CRP Project Officer Stav Friedman.

CRP’s Spotlight On: South Bank BID

30th March 2021 / Posted by CRP Team

This week, we are showcasing the work of CRP partner South Bank BID. Established in 2014, South Bank BID’s vision is to help create a world-class neighbourhood for businesses, residents and students alike. CRP spoke to Abdel Najid, Head of Place Management, about the BID’s recent work.

On behalf of our 250+ levy paying businesses, the BID delivers projects and funds initiatives that reflect the area’s reputation as the cultural heart of London. This includes cleaning and security services through South Bank Patrol and South Bank Clean Team, who work 7 days a week across the BID district. The BID also invests in maintaining and strengthening South Bank’s reputation with a range of audiences through the South Bank London brand. With a visitor website with over 500,000 visitors per year pre-pandemic, together with an ongoing reach of over 325,000 followers across its social media channels, South Bank London packages and promotes the best of what’s happening in our area to both domestic and international visitors, alongside longform articles on the history and cultural heritage that makes South Bank such a unique place.

In order to make sure the voices of South Bank’s businesses are collectively heard, the BID works closely with a number of local stakeholders, including the GLA, Southwark and Lambeth councils, and both local MPs on policy matters including public realm, environment, construction co-ordination, business support services and advocacy. In 2020, the BID helped to co-found the South Bank and Waterloo Management Group, whose purpose is to ensure a strategically coordinated recovery and response to the challenges created in the South Bank and Waterloo area by the pandemic. Recently the BID was confirmed as a Board member of the newly established London Tourism Recovery Board, working as the voice of industry to help deliver a coordinated London recovery campaign, which South Bank and its attractions will be well represented in, as one of London’s foremost neighbourhoods.

Also, as part of CRP’s Clean Air Villages 3 project, we have developed and implemented several environmentally sustainable initiatives to promote active travel and improve air quality locally including:

  • Two online workshops on active travel (workshop 1) and cycling (workshop 2) delivered for BID businesses to help incentivise employees to walk or cycle more
  • The installation of Vivacity traffic monitoring sensors, which not only help track different vehicle modes and their average emissions but they are also key to tracking levels of returning footfall to the South Bank
  • Procurement of a cargo bike for use by South Bank Businesses to make zero emissions deliveries locally
  • Clean Air Route Finder, which shows two routes from Waterloo station which have been monitored and identified as being 30% to 60% less polluted than more popular alternatives
  • Promotion of the CRP Clean Air Villages Directory, which currently shows 41 businesses who deliver their goods and services to the South Bank BID area via ultra-low emission vehicles, cargo bikes or by foot
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