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Ladbroke Grove, home to the world-famous Portobello Road Market, as well as a wealth of independent shops, cafes and bars, is a vibrant and diverse neighbourhood. With poor air quality and high human exposure, the area was identified by the Greater London Authority as a pollution ‘hotspot’ within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

The Clean Air Villages 2 programme is working in collaboration with businesses and local authorities across 7 London boroughs to address air quality within 13 of these ‘hotspots’, known as ‘villages’. Within Ladbroke Grove itself, we are exploring the use of shared cargo bikes and electric vehicles as sustainable alternatives to more polluting diesel and petrol vehicles.

Throughout October, the CRP team have been out and about speaking with as many businesses as possible to gain insight into local interest and concerns, directly from those that live and work in the area. The next month will be a busy one, as we continue to engage with local businesses and reach out to as many market traders as possible. We will also be running a targeted workshop to explore the introduction of shared vehicle schemes in more depth.

If you’d like to keep up-to-date with what we’re doing in Ladbroke Grove, or the Clean Air Villages 2 programme in general, you can follow CRP on Twitter! Alternatively, you can contact Abby directly to find out more.

The first Clean Air Thames Steering Group took place at Westminster City Hall last month (September 2019). CRP, the Port of London Authority and the Greater London Authority met to discuss the recent project launch at the Greening Inland Shipping Conference, and to agree on the next steps of the project.

It was an engaging session. One key issue was how best to encourage London vessel operators to apply for funding. This included identifying relevant newsletters and social media groups.

Another issue was to pick the most suitable methodology and scoring to use when reviewing applications during a panel session to take place next January.

The meeting ended on an optimistic note – attendees look forward to inviting successful funding applicants to join its quarterly meetings from March 2020 going forward.

Clean Air Thames is a three-year project to retrofit inland vessels to improve air quality along the River Thames. For more information and to apply, visit the project webpage or contact CRP Project Manager, Sefinat Otaru.

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As an organisation, there are many actions that we are taking to become more sustainable. This includes only printing when necessary, on FSC certified paper, and reducing the level of paper-based marketing materials we use. All of CRP’s events will be continuing to embrace sustainability by choosing sustainable catering, including using all reusable items rather than single use plastic.

We will also continue to ask delegates to use active travel or public transport methods to arrive at our events, to improve air quality as much as possible.

For more information, please contact CRP’s Yasin Mahmood

CRP’s Board meets twice a year for 90 minutes face-to-face. The next meeting is at 9.30am on 25^th September 2019.

The CRP Board meetings bring together senior representatives of all 32 CRP partner organisations from the public, private and voluntary sectors.

CRP’s Board meetings are Co-Chaired by Councillor Wendy Hyde of the City of London Corporation, and Simon Pitkeathley of Camden Town Unlimited and Euston Town BIDs.

CRP’s September Board meeting will consider topics including live project delivery portfolio, upcoming collaborative funding opportunities (including the Mayor’s Good Growth Fund), and ongoing plans to celebrate CRP’s 25^th Anniversary.

For further information please contact CRP’s Susannah Wilks.

Tomos Joyce joined CRP this month as one of our Air Quality Analysis Officers. He will work on various CRP projects, particularly Healthy Streets Everyday, in order to quantify the changes to London’s air quality from the good work done by CRP and our partners.

Before starting at CRP, Tomos attended Royal Holloway, University of London where he studied Environmental Diagnosis and Management. He now looks forward to embarking on his career at CRP.

CRP will celebrate its 25-year anniversary this year and throughout that time Westminster City Council (WCC) has undertaken the lead accountable body role for CRP. On behalf of all our partners, CRP would like to sincerely thank WCC for fulfilling this valuable role and we look forward to many more years of working in partnership together to make London a better place to live, work and visit.

For further information please contact CRP’s Carol Quamina.

CRP and its Board welcomes Brixton BID as a full CRP member! We look forward to collaborative fundraising and project delivery with the London Borough of Lambeth and other CRP members.

CRP is also looking forward to launching a shared Electric Van for deliveries in Brixton, as part of its Clean Air Villages project. Lambeth is also participating in CRP’s Healthy Streets Everyday project, and the Central London Sub Regional Transport Partnership that CRP facilitates on behalf of TfL.

We are very excited to announce that our Clean Air Thames project is now live. It was officially launched at the Port of London Authority’s Greening Inland Shipping Conference (#GIS19) on Tuesday 10^th September.

CRP will work with the Greater London Authority, the Port of London Authority, the City of London Corporation over the next three years to improve air quality along the river. Through the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund, Clean Air Thames will provide funding to retrofit up to 11 inland vessels with post exhaust treatments to reduce hazardous emissions, including particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and sulphur oxides, as well as share lessons and best practices over the lifetime of the project.

Applications are now open for Round 1 of Clean Air Thames funding. It is open to operators running vessels on the Tidal Thames within Greater London. Please visit https://crossriverpartnership.org/projects/clean-air-thames to access the application form, as well as project participation guidelines.

For additional information, please email Sefinat Otaru, CRP Project Manager at sefinatotaru@crossriverpartnership.org.

I am very happy to be joining the team again this month, this time returning full-time as a Support Officer. My work experience took place over a week in August, where I had an interesting and busy introduction to life at CRP. I will be spending three days a week time on the Clean Air Villages 2 project, and the rest of my time on other exciting projects at CRP, including the Clean Air Thames project.

In terms of business engagement, this week we have been working in Covent Garden with CAV, investigating the food and beverage industry there.

I’ve also been enjoying getting to know the Clean Air Thames project, as well as being introduced to the Cadogan Estate Sustainability Strategy. This has included a meeting with Tideway, learning more about their business by discussing their retrofit solutions and how they are reconnecting London with the Thames.

I am looking forward to seeing what the upcoming weeks hold, and I am very excited to be back at CRP!

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