Tooting Joins Healthy Everyday Street project
After
a successful bid for funding from the council
Tooting is to be part of the three-year
Healthy Streets Everyday project after a successful bid
for funding from Wandsworth Council.
The project is run by the Cross River Partnership (CRP)
and funded by the Mayor of London's Air Quality Fund, with
match-funding from 16 participating boroughs. The aim is
to reduce air pollution, make streets more
pedestrian-friendly, increase walking and cycling and
decrease the use of private cars.
The news follows Wandsworth Council's pledge to play its
part in tackling climate change, with the goal of being
carbon neutral by 2030 and a zero-emission council by
2050.
The CRP will now work with the council to draw up detailed
proposals, but work will include
Improvements to the streetscape
New traffic regulations
Car-free events, including on the upcoming Car Free Day
Help with communicating, monitoring and evaluating the
success of the project
The different boroughs taking part will help each other
and share what they’ve learnt at regular meetings of a
Steering Group.
Wandsworth has already given its support to Car Free Day
and has waived road closure charges for organisers of
street parties and play streets on that day.
Healthy Streets Everyday is the second CRP project that
Tooting will be part of. Recently it was also one of 13
areas in London to participate in the second phase of the
Clean Air Villages project which aims to improve local air
quality by reducing emissions from business deliveries and
servicing
This will include support to help local businesses,
schools and organisations share suppliers with their
neighbours and use suppliers who deliver using ultra-low
emission vehicles, like the ones in the Cross River
Partnership's Ultra-Low Emission Suppliers Directory
launched this week.
Wandsworth's cabinet member for air quality Cllr Paul
Ellis said, "These two projects together should have a
significant effect on Tooting's air quality and will help
us achieve the ambitious targets we have set ourselves to
become inner London's greenest borough.
"We're pleased to be working with the Cross River
Partnership, the other London boroughs and, most
importantly, our residents, schools, businesses and
community groups to make them a success."
Find out more about Healthy Streets Everyday
Find out more about Wandsworth Green Pledge
September 10, 2019