The vision statement for the South London Freight Quality Partnership is as follows:

"To develop a common understanding of freight transport issues among the membership and promote constructive solutions which  reconcile the need for access to goods and services with local environmental, social and safety concerns".

The South London Freight Quality Partnership will implement specific actions aimed at improving air quality, safety, reducing noise and increasing operational efficiency of the freight transport industry. These factors are fundamentally to do with the interface between the freight industry and the environment, and the need to reverse the negative impacts of one upon the other within the partnership area.

The Key Stakeholders in the South London Freight Quality Partnership, are local government (eight Boroughs of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Croydon, Bromley, Lewisham, Richmond upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames), regional government (Transport for London), the Freight Industry (in the first instance represented by the Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association) and local businesses and employers as represented through the Chamber of Commerce and equivalent organisations. All the Boroughs in this partnership have identified areas that they perceive as having issues with freight or which are likely to benefit from the existence of a Freight Quality Partnership.

The South London Freight Quality Partnership plan has been developed balancing the national strategy and best practice guidance on Freight Quality Partnerships, with the local context, particularly the Mayor's Spatial Development, Air Quality, Transport and Noise Strategies and the Borough Air Quality Action Plans, to ensure consistency of the proposed approach with the established policy context.

Transport for London, one of the key stakeholders in this partnership has set up a freight unit to oversee freight transport in London at the strategic level. The TfL freight unit recently published the London Freight Plan which will define the way freight transport systems in London are developed in the coming years.

Further information on the South London Freight Quality Partnership activities can be found here. Additional documents for download can be found in the links sections.