Month: July 2022

Birmingham’s clean air zone – is your car compliant?

On Monday 8 April 2019, London’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) was started to cover central London. From 25 October 2021, this was extended to within the North and South Circular Roads. Since then there are now clean air zones implemented throughout England and include Bath, Bradford, Bristol, Portsmouth, Sheffield as well as Newcastle and Gateshead. From January 2020, drivers within Birmingham of high polluting vehicles pay £8 per day to travel into Birmingham city centre.   Birmingham City Council has faced pressure from the government to reduce pollution by setting up a Clean Air Zone (CAZ), also called the Birmingham Low