Appendix A – Summary of Business Low Emission Neighbourhood Proposals Tables 1 and 2 below provide a detailed breakdown of the project applications, with the recommended projects first and the projects that were not selected second, and the reasons for this. Table 1 - Summary of Recommended Proposals Project Cost Project Name Borough Summary Key Deliverables Grant Match Funding Funding ▪ The BLEN focuses on the London Road ▪ Love Clean Air Campaign Love London Corridor (A235), between West Croydon ▪ Establishing a zero-emissions Road, Love Clean Train Station and Thornton Heath Pond, London delivery service Air – London within the Air Quality Focus Area. Borough of ▪ Improved kerbside management £325,000 £330,000 Road Healthy ▪ The BLEN will support business to improve Croydon ▪ Modal Filter Parklets; Green High Street air quality, reduce business emissions, green Infrastructure Project the High Street and monitor and report air ▪ Clean Air Gateway quality at key sites. ▪ Tower Hamlets has over 2,000 independent high street businesses and 1,200 street ▪ Promotion of last mile delivery market traders, mainly using older, polluting service vans to transport goods to and from local ▪ Cargo bike hub and cycle Tower Hamlets London wholesalers and markets. parking Town Centres Borough of ▪ Markets are typically located on roads with ▪ Market trader storage site £350,000 £350,000 and Markets Tower heavy traffic and high pollution levels, with ▪ EVCP s for businesses Project Hamlets older and new housing developments and ▪ Workplace Smarter Travel Grants schools nearby. ▪ AQ Monitoring ▪ The BLEN Aims to help high street ▪ Public realm improvements businesses and market traders transition to greener logistics operating models. 1 Appendix A – Summary of Business Low Emission Neighbourhood Proposals Project Cost Project Name Borough Summary Key Deliverables Grant Match Funding Funding ▪ The BLEN aims to encourage EV uptake, support active travel, and improve local freight movements. ▪ This BLEN centers on a partnership with ▪ Ultra-fast EV Charging Depot EON to install one of the first ultra-fast EV ▪ A12/ Ley Street Junction Green Ley Street London charging depots in the UK. NO2 Infrastructure Business Low Borough of concentrations at the A12/Ley Street ▪ Freight Hub and Last Mile £250,000 £350,000 Emission Redbridge junction exceed the limit, with PM10 Deliveries Neighbourhood concentrations at the limit. Ilford is served ▪ Cycle Parking Port by TfL Rail, London Underground and ▪ Improved Cycle Infrastructure numerous bus services. However, there is heavy passenger and freight motor traffic flow. ▪ North End Road is one of London's historic markets and a key local high street, but suffers from an unattractive and ▪ Expansion of existing Zero unwelcoming environment dominated by Emission Freight Service heavy traffic. ▪ Fulham BID Delivery and Service North End Road London ▪ Key areas identified for improvement are: Planning engagement (through Business Low Borough of traffic congestion, loading and pollution, CRP) £250,000 £250,000 Emission Hammersmith making the street more enjoyable for ▪ Market Green Infrastructure Neighbourhood and Fulham pedestrians, improving the range and ▪ Public Realm encompassing appearance of shops, cafes and restaurants, cycle infrastructure, parking and supporting and improving the market, green infrastructure making the street cleaner, safer and more attractive, greening the street by planting more trees. 2 Appendix A – Summary of Business Low Emission Neighbourhood Proposals Project Cost Project Name Borough Summary Key Deliverables Grant Match Funding Funding ▪ A BLEN between Battersea Park Road and Wandsworth Road. Managing emissions and ▪ Pocket Parks, Public Realm improving air quality in the area is a key Improvement, Green Walls and priority to stakeholders. Street Furniture ▪ The BLEN will support involvement of local ▪ Controlled Parking Zone Thesally Road London businesses and people with a supplement of ▪ Active Travel Route and Business Low Borough of schemes underway and with air quality Promotion Strategy £333,000 £355,000 Emission Wandsworth initiatives. Will provide a link to Nine Elms, ▪ School Audits and Engagement Neighbourhood Vauxhall OAs. ▪ Resident and Business ▪ The proposal seeks to implement a number Engagement of transformational initiatives promoting ▪ Waste and Recycling healthy streets, whilst prioritising walking Consolidation and cycling. ▪ Expansion/ improvements of pedestrian and cycle infrastructure; increased cycle ▪ A BLEN focused on the main parking; marketing materials Leytonstone London commercial/retail town centre area located ▪ Green links and pocket parks Business Low Borough of along Church Lane, High Road Leytonstone ▪ Kerbside activity and servicing £250,000 £610,000 Emission Waltham and Kirkdale Road. study; virtual loading bay system Neighbourhood Forest ▪ It is an area with high levels of congestion trials and pedestrians with high levels of pollution. ▪ ULEV restriction zone study; priority parking controls; Rapid EVCP ▪ AQ Monitoring 3 Appendix A – Summary of Business Low Emission Neighbourhood Proposals Table 2 - Summary of Rejected Proposals Project Cost Project Name Borough Summary Reasons for not funding Grant Match Funding Funding ▪ Although the scheme itself is a nice The BLEN sought to create a new public space public realm scheme, and it’s in Clerkenwell Green, including: positive that some parking is being Clerkenwell ▪ conversion of parking into public removed, most of the additional Green Business Islington realm; road closures; bus stand complimentary BLEN measures are £350,000 £2,325,000 Low Emission relocation; traffic calming measures cursory/unfeasible. It is not a holistic Neighbourhood ▪ Improved Pedestrian and Cycle Access; air quality scheme. The main costs Cycle Parking are for trees, repaving, and historic benches. ▪ Even after being provided with feedback the application lacked 3Es Tottenham Network, seeking to deliver: coherence, structure and detail ▪ Engagement, grants and audits for ▪ Some of the elements that GLA businesses officers had suggested were unlikely The 3Es ▪ Consolidation/ ULEV waste collection; to succeed (based on past Tottenham Haringey £300,000 £300,000 Cargo-bikes experience) such as energy audits Network ▪ EV and Car Club promotion strategy and grants for boilers were kept in ▪ Cycle Storage and training ▪ The budget did not appear to be ▪ Marketing campaign evidenced based ▪ No clear proposals for public realm improvements 4 Appendix A – Summary of Business Low Emission Neighbourhood Proposals Project Cost Project Name Borough Summary Reasons for not funding Grant Match Funding Funding ▪ Although the area is suitable, the project suffers from a lack of ambition and this was not addressed in response to officer feedback. For example, the project was looking at A BLEN in Worcester Park, covering Malden digital parking systems to improve Road & Central Road, seeking to deliver: Kingston the use of parking spaces, but they Worcester Park ▪ Four Pocket Parks Upon stated that they couldn’t consider Business Low ▪ Parking management scheme to Thames adding emissions-based elements £240,000 £240,000 Emission improve access to parking and due to resident resistance, it was felt Neighbourhood ▪ Voluntary ULEZ restriction zone Sutton that this measure therefore would be ▪ SME cargo-bike provision unlikely to improve air quality; it may ▪ Cycle parking in fact help support driving. ▪ They seem to be limited in what they can do due to the layout of the streets and local unwillingness to accept any bold measures. 5 .