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CRP’s Smart Electric Urban Logistics (SEUL) project continues to be celebrated for its innovation and achievements in using technology for good. It has won prizes in the Global Good Awards in both the ‘Tech for Good’ and ‘Innovation’ categories following the project’s recent conclusion. SEUL has already helped deliver air quality improvements through reduced emissions from electric trucks in central London. We look forward to attending the delayed awards ceremony, either virtually or in person, later this year!

SEUL is also the platform for our latest innovation project, EV Fleet-centred Local Energy System, working with UPS, UK Power Networks Services and Moixa, with funding from UKRI Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

For further information, please contact CRP Project Manager Tom-Linton Smith: tomlintonsmith@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP is extremely honoured to announce Midtown BID joining its Board as a partnership member alongside the existing 18 Business Improvement Districts, 8 Local Authorities and other strategic agencies involved with supporting London out of lockdown, safely and sustainably. Midtown BID will deliver projects with CRP on healthy walking, cycling, working and living, as we emerge from the first phase of the COVID-19 crisis. Midtown BID is already developing their Covid-19:RISE strategy to work not just towards recovery, but with the purpose of renewing the district longer term as we all work towards creating a successful future together. Midtown’s footprint extends into the London Borough of Camden and the London Borough of Islington, 2 of CRP’s existing 8 Local Authority members.

“Midtown BID are delighted to be joining the Cross River Partnership and the alignment of many shared goals, initiatives and objectives. We look forward to being an active participant in both current and future projects as we all work towards establishing a renewed and reinvigorated city.”
Debbie Akehurst, Interim Chief Executive Officer, Midtown BID.

Register your place at our next LiveShare session, where we will be joined by Camden Town Unlimited and London & Partners for an informative discussion on the successes and challenges of re-opening the High Street two weeks after the easing of lockdown in England. We look forward to seeing you there!

Missed our last LiveShare event? Watch the whole discussion here, with contributions from Transport for London and Sustrans on active travel and its essential role as we emerge from lockdown.

This week provides CRP with an opportunity to celebrate sustainable travel, even more so than we usually do! Throughout our Healthy Streets Everyday programme, we are working with our partners to encourage and share knowledge of improving streetscapes for more pedestrian and cycle-friendly neighbourhoods and streets and reducing car-free behaviour, with a focus on School Streets to encourage clean air and active travel for children.

Clean Air V illages relies on engaging with businesses to inspire sustainable behavioural changes and implement new low or zero emission delivery methods. Introductions of cargo bikes have encouraged zero emission deliveries for businesses such as Cooper’s Bakehouse. CAV3 will build on this by continuing to work with businesses, but additionally working with hospitals (where feasible) and communities.

Through the Clean Air Thames project, CRP are retrofitting freight and passenger vessels along the Thames to reduce local pollutants. These busy waterways produce pollution through these vessels within the heart of London, so promoting greener initiatives can have a significant impact on London’s air quality. CRP has encouraged collaboration and knowledge through the management and delivery of CLSRTP. The team have supported the production of guidance documents on cycling logistics and the Mayor’s Vision Zero plans, and installed dual-purpose cycle stations to promote active travel.

Meanwhile, EFLES showcases some innovative technology as CRP works with partners to assess how technology solutions, such as AI software, can deliver London’s aims to improve air quality, unlock job opportunities and deliver energy, cost and time savings for businesses in the UK and internationally.

CRP was honoured to support Westminster City Council’s staff virtual 8.46 minutes of silence for racial justice at 16.55 on 9^th June 2020. CRP is fully committed to working with its partners, funders, suppliers and staff to tackle racial equality, on a continual basis.

Please contact CRP’s Director Susannah Wilks if you would like to talk about this further.

Across London, lighting plays a crucial role in social, cultural, and environmental capacities, from cultivating new civic spaces such as the Illuminated River Project, to its potential impacts on mental health and wellbeing, and the need for new energy saving lighting infrastructure. Good lighting in London is essential for a busy, twenty-four-hour city. Millions of people use London’s streets, open spaces and transport networks after dark.

On 18th June at an online event, join expert speakers Stephen Bayley, Mark Major (Speirs + Major), Don Slater (London School of Economics), Mathew Frith (London Wildlife Trust) and Alex Lifschutz (Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands), to discuss creating a more coherent night-time experience of London. More information here.

From 22nd to 28th June, the UK’s lung health awareness week is taking place, which is all the more important this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, together with the fact that the UK has the 4th highest mortality rate from lung disease in Europe. Reduction in air pollution increases lung health, and according to the British Lung Foundation, two million people in the UK with respiratory conditions such as asthma have experienced reduced symptoms due to cleaner air during the coronavirus lockdown. CRP are proud to run projects which positively impact on lung health through the reduction of air pollution. Clean Air Villages 3 activities are estimated to reduce emissions by 86.7kg of NOx, and 24,171kg of CO2.

For further information, please contact CRP’s Communications & Business Development Manager Joshua West.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CRP in collaboration with Defra, the funder of its Clean Air Villages 3 (CAV3) project, has managed to secure a more flexible approach to project delivery. The CRP team is actively working with project partners and local communities to identify suitable sustainable solutions to improve air quality which can be implemented post-lockdown.

For further information, please contact CRP Operations Manager Carol Quamina.

With thoughts turning to recovery and how to build back better, CRP is pleased to be engaged in projects that will support a transition to a cleaner future. Our EV Fleet Centred Local Energy System (EFLES) project, part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s Prospering from the Energy Revolution challenge, is helping to unlock the challenges of electrifying vehicle fleets through an integrated smart charging and energy resource management platform, based in Camden.

Last month we launched this 12 month partnership project with UK Power Networks Services, UPS and Moixa. We are now busy gathering data for the project and also looking across the other projects in the challenge as we work towards a greener, more resilient future for energy and transport.

For more information, please contact CRP Project Manager Tom Linton-Smith.

CRP’s Healthy Streets Everyday (HSE) project is rapidly and proactively helping the 17 Borough, landowner and BID partners to make lasting and transformative change to streets throughout London, in full alignment with TfL’s Streetspace programme, and adding extra benefits to Londons’ COVID-19 response.

As part of our Steering Group Meeting in May this year, we facilitated a round table discussion to share information and ideas on partner Streetspace plans. It was great to hear about the wide range of initiatives being carried out across London, with examples including road closures in Hackney, School Streets in Richmond Upon Thames and Pocket Parks in the Northbank BID.

As well as supplementing Streetspace initiatives, HSE is also focused on providing guidance and support to aid green recovery for both partners and the wider community. For example, the HSE School Streets Hotline provides partners with guidance and information on implementing School Streets, whilst CRP’s LiveShares aim to educate both partners and the wider community on topics such as the benefits of active travel, London’s active travel network, and enabling business recovery.

The first LiveShare event was a great success with the focus being placed on journey planning. The session discussed how to use tools such as CRP’s Clean Air Route Finder, a journey planner that provides alternative walking or cycling routes to reduce exposure to air pollution for NO2, PM10 and PM2.5. HSE is fully committed to helping partners in light of COVID-19, taking this opportunity to create streets that are pleasant for all people, creating environments that can accommodate and encourage increases in sustainable and active travel and that are pleasant, safe places that all Londoners can enjoy.

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

Archives: News Articles

SEUL Continues to Win Awards!

CRP Welcomes Midtown BID as its Latest Member

High Streets as Havens: Re-opening Businesses Safely and Sustainably – LiveShare session

Green Transport Week

#BlackLivesMatter

Saving the Night

Love Your Lungs Week

CRP Main Funder Update

EV Fleet-centred Local Energy System – plotting a course for a green recovery

Healthy Streets Everyday Programme Update