The City of London Corporation has produced its guidance to help City businesses understand the measures that can be taken to minimise the impact of their deliveries and servicing on the City’s streets.

The City of London Corporation has begun delivery of its transport recovery plan designed to ensure the safety of residents, workers and visitors as people return to the Square Mile. 

Temporary changes are being installed in stages, to provide the space needed to maintain social distancing on our streets and to enable safe walking, cycling and the managed use of public transport.

The guidance has been tailored for each type of business and is broken down into delivery, waste and servicing sections. In the short term these actions will help support safe social distancing as people return to the Square Mile, in the long term the changes will help to deliver safer, healthier streets in line with the aims and objectives in the City Corporation’s Transport Strategy.

Delivery and servicing vehicles make up a quarter of motorised traffic in the City, increasing to 32% between 7am and 10am. Large goods vehicles are disproportionately involved in collisions that result in someone being killed or seriously injured.

The City Corporation’s Transport Strategy has set ambitious targets to:

• Reduce the number of motorised freight vehicles on our streets in the peak periods by 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2044.
• Reduce the number of motorised freight vehicles by 15% by 2030 and 30% by 2044.

This guidance provides simple actions businesses can take to reduce the number of deliveries, retime deliveries and servicing outside of the peak hours, and switch deliveries to nonmotorised modes.