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group has been formed to bring order lut of the chaos of delivering in the capital • and these Londoners are happy to follow le Parisian lead. Louise Cole reports.
Ihe Central London Freight Quality Partnership (FOP) was launched this week, inging together local authorities, ansport for London (TfL), the ritral London Partnership d freight operators to discuss a problems faced by London livery drivers.
LGVs and vans make up 23% of vehicle movements (equating 240,000 CVs a week) within a congestion charging zone, d the next decade is expected bring another 800,000 people d another 15% of freight into a capital. It remains one of the ast difficult areas in which to erate, with dreadful congestion d a bewildering range of parking licies set by 33 local authorities.
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L's freight plan calls for five )Ps across the capital, including many borough councils as ssiblc. The Central London )P involves Kensington & telsea, Westminster, the City London, Camden, Islington, uthwark and Lambeth — and Ling director Matthew Mace 's Tower Hamlets and Hackney :watching developments closely their problems mirror many of ise in central London.
IIL's freight team and its Kg's ye come too late to significantly 'ect political issues such as a congestion charge or the )posed London low-emission (LEZ), although Mace says the Central London Partnership agreed with the Freight Transport Association and Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders that the Euro series of emissions standards were not appropriate for a scheme like the LEZ. "It is impossible to enforce," he adds. "Filtering vehicles by age would be more practical and effective," The first issue the FQP can get stuck into is penalty charge notices (PCNs). Speaking at the launch, David Sheppard, deputy head of transport at John Lewis department stores, reported that last year its fleet was hit with 1,783 parking fines. All hut 28 of them were issued in London. "1 used to have a secretary," he says. "Now all she does is process PCNs."
The FQP hopes to build on the boroughs' Parking in Partnership scheme, which is designed to achieve greater transparency and consistency of rules, ajoint system for policy and enforcement and the purchasing of standard equipment so that all parking meters work in the same way.
"The very first thing we must tackle is PCNs," says Mace. "We're spending millions of pounds a year on them." •