UK Clean Air Zones to commence in 2021

[FROSTYBALLS]

Bath to commence 15th March 2021 - more info:  https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/bath-clean-air-zone

Leeds early 2021 - more info:  https://www.leeds.gov.uk/business/environmental-health-for-business/air-quality

Birmingham 1st June 2021 - more info:  https://www.brumbreathes.co.uk

Clean Air Zones - check your vehicle:  https://www.gov.uk/check-clean-air-zone-charge

[MyOpinionIsWorthless]

On 10/9/2020 at 7:53 PM, FROSTYBALLS said:

Bath to commence 15th March 2021 - more info:  https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/bath-clean-air-zone

Leeds early 2021 - moe info:  https://www.leeds.gov.uk/business/environmental-health-for-business/air-quality

Birmingham 1st June 2021 - more info:  https://www.brumbreathes.co.uk

Clean Air Zones - check your vehicle:  https://www.gov.uk/check-clean-air-zone-charge

Good post. Well worth checking 

[FROSTYBALLS]

Leeds' Clean Air Zone has been scrapped.

Birmingham's Clean Air Zone starts 1st June 2021.

[Andrew B.]

Bristol Clean Air Zone is coming into effect as of October 2021.

Originally it would have banned privately owned diesel cars outright but due to immense opposition of this idea, those plans were dropped.

Same rules for Birmingham's scheme will also apply to Bristol for charging.

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/streets-travel/bristol-caz/charges-and-checker

 

[The Aardvark]

Greater Manchester's clean air zone launches Monday 30 May 2022.  This covers all of Greater Manchester, as can be seen from this map, but there are two notable exclusions:-

• roads managed by Highways England such as motorways and trunk roads (are not included in the zone)
• "...Vans, buses, coaches, taxis, private hire vehicles, minibuses and heavy goods vehicles that do not meet emission standards would pay a daily charge to travel in the Zone. Private cars, motorbikes and mopeds are not included..."

Will be interesting to see how this "solves" the pollution problem.

Source: https://cleanairgm.com/clean-air-plans

[Yugguy1970]

Heh, so my brother-in-law's 5.0 supercharged XKR is fine but a Prius taxi isn't?

Outstanding 🤣

[FROSTYBALLS]

7 minutes ago, Yugguy1970 said:

so my brother-in-law's 5.0 supercharged XKR is fine but a Prius taxi isn't?

A Prius, depending what Euro standard it is, may not be charged.

[Mikw]

6 hours ago, The Aardvark said:

Greater Manchester's clean air zone launches Monday 30 May 2022.  This covers all of Greater Manchester, as can be seen from this map, but there are two notable exclusions:-

• roads managed by Highways England such as motorways and trunk roads (are not included in the zone)
• "...Vans, buses, coaches, taxis, private hire vehicles, minibuses and heavy goods vehicles that do not meet emission standards would pay a daily charge to travel in the Zone. Private cars, motorbikes and mopeds are not included..."

Will be interesting to see how this "solves" the pollution problem.

Source: https://cleanairgm.com/clean-air-plans

Word it that Andy Burnham has been fighting tooth and nail to get private cars excempt.

Leicester was going to be an early adopter of a clean air zone too, but the city mayor has managed to get it postponed for a while at least.

[The Aardvark]

17 hours ago, Yugguy1970 said:

Heh, so my brother-in-law's 5.0 supercharged XKR is fine but a Prius taxi isn't?

Outstanding 🤣

A Prius taxi, driving from Liverpool to Leeds along the M62/M60, through Greater Manchester, would not be charged if it stuck to the motorway, as that is a Highways England road.  If it left the motorway, and travelled on roads managed by the Borough Councils of Greater Manchester, it would incur a charge if the engine is Euro 5 3 or older as @FROSTYBALLS highlighted. 

The following vehicles would pay a proposed daily charge of £7.50 to travel in the Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone from 30 May 2022:

Hackney carriages and PHVs which are not licensed with a Greater Manchester local authority with a Euro 5 or earlier diesel engine (typically registered before 2016).
All hackney carriages and PHVs which are not licensed with a Greater Manchester local authority with a Euro 3 or earlier petrol engine (typically registered before 2005).
Hackney carriages and PHVs which are licensed with a Greater Manchester local authority will receive a temporary exemption to 31 May 2023.

The following vehicles would pay a proposed daily charge of £7.50 to travel in the Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone from 1 June 2023:

All hackney carriages and PHVs with a Euro 5 or earlier diesel engine (typically registered before 2016)
All hackney carriages and PHVs with a Euro 3 or earlier petrol engine (typically registered before 2005)
Unpaid charges would result in liability to pay a Penalty Charge Notice of £120 in addition to the unpaid daily charge (reduced to £60 if paid within 14 days
Source: https://cleanairgm.com/taxi-and-private-hire

Your point about a privately-owned petrol XKR being totally exempt from charges is correct.  This also applies to the diesel SUVs used on the school runs.  There remain no consequences for drivers who leave their engines running in public places (including outside schools at drop-off and pick-up times). There are no consequences for bus and coach drivers who leave their engines running while waiting, nor workmen who leave their van engines running.

Changing our behaviour is politically unpalatable, we don't vote for people who want to restrict our freedoms.  The campaign by the Conservative challenger to Andy Burnham in the GM Mayoral election was centred on scrapping this Clean Air proposal, framing it as a "Congestion Tax".

It was Clean Air Day on June 17th.  The following morning, a parent waiting outside a school was asked to turn their engine off.  The response: "Why?  Clean Air Day was yesterday."

[Cyker]

On 6/29/2021 at 3:30 PM, Yugguy1970 said:

Heh, so my brother-in-law's 5.0 supercharged XKR is fine but a Prius taxi isn't?

Outstanding 🤣

Yeh, that is the galling thing here too; I had to get rid of my awesome Mk1 Yaris D4D, while my boss can still drive his giant V6 land boat! I'm preeety sure my D4D was a lot less polluting than that thing given how much unburnt fuel I can smell in the exhaust!

 

[YarisHybrid2016]

It's absolute nonsense. Are they unaware the air moves around?

These motorway 60-MPH-for-the-planet segments are also absolute junk as it does two things: keeps my car in the area longer than if I was driving at 70 MPH, and secondly, upon leaving the 60 MPH zone I will need to accelerate again and waste fuel and emit more to get back to 70 MPH.

Environmentalists are some of the dumbest people on the planet.

[Cyker]

Yeah, not to mention all the 20 zones and now they're funnelling traffic through a smaller and smaller set of roads by blocking off all the side roads - It's shafting everyone, including busses and cabbies, as the roads they're forcing everyone to use are not adequate for such a large increase of traffic, especially as, by blocking those roads, they create longer journeys where now you have to do a giant loop to get where you want to go where before the side roads would take you there!

Every time they use pollution as the reason, but they're the ones making the pollution worse by doing these things!!!

 

[FROSTYBALLS]

In the first month of operation, the Birmingham Clean Air Zone generated over 44,000 fines, which are expected to generate income of £1.5 million for the City Council.

Additionally, as the City Council currently has it's maintenance depot for vehicles from the City's waste department within the Clean Air Zone, the Council's own waste collection vehicles (refuse wagons, etc) received 82 fines through entering the zone for maintenance !!

Both of our vehicles satisfy the emissions requirements for entering the zone free of charge.