West London Logistics
Logistics growth down the Golden Mile of the A4.
Opportunity Hounslow Conference
What Infrastructure Do We Need to Unlock Growth?
Lomas Says ‘logistics consolidation space needed to unchoke the density demand’
‘education and logistics workforce to deliver the consolidation with clean air.’
Opportunity Hounslow hosted at the Univ. West London campus next to the A4 and M4 flyover was a dynamic one-day conference celebrating the Golden Mile’s centenary, advancing aspirations for growth in Hounslow. Growth of Logistics in the West London road artery to the capital. Local MP and Minister Seema Malhotra was on the front row with UWL Vice Chancellor Peter John as LSA chair Carl Lomas spoke passionately about the lens of the Golden Mile as a logistics artery to the Capital.
Councillor Tom Bruce, ‘Building on the Golden Mile today for tomorrow. An identity and place.
Carl Lomas, the golden mile of the A4 is the artery of West London into the capital, the veins that run into Hounslow provide the people that makes logistics happen and educators including UWL and West Thames College give those people the skills to make that logistics work.
UWL boss Prof Peter John, ‘It's about the people.’
Marta Gajewska, Principal West Thames College delivering apprenticeships for express courier brands, ‘ :logistics is the largest sector in West London employment, people see the sector but often miss the value. We must build a talent pipeline for logistics.
Carl Lomas chair of West London’s Logistics Skills Alliance was sitting on panel titled ‘What Infrastructure Do We Need to Unlock Growth?’
Lomas comments, West London is a UK hot spot for express logistics, it's at the heart of final mile delivery to door. We need physical space dedicated to consolidation centres that can deliver joint sortation and work collaboratively to deliver clean air vehicle solutions from West London to the heart of the Capital. We need knowledge skills and behaviour learning for what will be a next generation delivery workforce operating electric clean air final mile.
North Circular gyratory feeding the A4 Golden mile is the gateway for urgent goods into London. Number of goods and demand is growing, restricted road space is creating a physical choke point to London.
From Park Royal to Slough and west to Maidenhead employers drive goods in number to the heart of the Capital and depend on reliability and consistency of the Golden Mile which is already at capacity.
As density grows and land use shift builds in population the transport choke points are restricting commercial success in West London. Concrete is becoming some of the most expensive in the UK logistics platforms, while only serving a use for short hours of the day for individual brands.
Competitive practice restricts logistics brands sharing that concrete, sorting and delivering goods by each other's services.
Consolidation practice success lies in third-party solutions, CEVA in Park Royal is a good example of joint practice delivery using one solution security and clean air electric vehicles to complete the final mile for all partners delivering to Parliament.
We need consolidation space solutions of available and affordable logistics lands round the gyratory that then have access down the golden mile of West London.
A collaboration to maximise clean air vehicles from consolidation centres and free road space to break the choke points.
We need knowledge and skills delivered to a collaboration workforce for logistics to deliver next generation workforce, individuals with skills to sort in collaboration and operate the new alternative fuelled solutions on electric power clean air power trains.
Opportunity Hounslow
