London Ultra Low Emission Zone to be city-wide in 2023
- London ULEZ will be expanded city-wide from 29 August 2023
- Move could deter more than 100,000 of the most polluting cars a day, according to TfL
- Non-compliant vehicles will face a daily charge of £12.50
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced that the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) will be expanded across all London boroughs from 29 August 2023 to improve air quality.
Transport for London (TfL) estimates that the number of cars not meeting ULEZ standards each day in outer London could fall from 160,000 to 46,000 and the number of vans from 42,000 to 26,000. It said that "the greatest number of health issues related to air pollution occur in outer London areas" and that's why the ULEZ is expanding.
The plans were originally announced by the Mayor just five months after the ULEZ was made 18 times bigger. In October 2021 it was expanded from the central area to cover all areas within the North and South Circular.
Drivers with non-compliant vehicles (pre Euro 4 for petrol cars, vans, minibuses and other specialist vehicles and pre Euro 6 for diesel cars, vans, minibuses and other specialist vehicles) have to pay a £12.50 charge to enter the ULEZ.
>> Check if your vehicle is compliant here
Car scrappage scheme to help drivers switch to cleaner vehicles
A scrappage scheme will launch on 30 January 2023 to help charities, small businesses, disabled people and Londoners on lower incomes scrap their older, more polluting vehicles in favour of cleaner forms of transport.
Eligible applicants can get up to £2,000 for scrapping a car or up to £1,000 for scrapping a motorcycle. For wheelchair accessible vehicles that don't meet the ULEZ emissions standards there is a grant of £5,000 to scrap, or retrofit to ULEZ standards. Alternatively, drivers who scrap their vehicles can choose to receive. lower grant payment and one or two adult-rate annual bus and tram passes.
Micro businesses, sole traders and charities will receive a £5,000 grant for scrapping a van or a £7,000 grant for scapping a minibus. If these are being replaced with a full electric vehicle they will receive £7,500 or £9,500. Alternatively, applications will receive £5,000 to retrofit certain vans and minibuses.
TfL is also introducing a 'grace period' until 25 October 2017 to help disabled Londoners and community transport providers prepare for the expansion.
ULEZ and Congestion Charge fines to increase
TfL is increasing the penalities for non-payment of the ULEZ and Congestion Charge from £160 to £180 (or from £80 to £90 if paid within 14 days).
It is also removing the annual £10 per vehicle Auto Pay registration fee.
What are the environmental benefits of a London-wide ULEZ?
TfL said that the proposals would mean the air around an additional 145 schools, mostly in outer London, would meet the interim World Health Organisation (WHO) target for nitrogen dioxide.
The changes would also see a further 340,000 Londoners living in areas meeting these international health-based standards.
What are the health reasons for a London-wide ULEZ?
New analysis by City Hall published in February 2022 showed that despite recent improvements in air quality, every hospital, medical centre and care home across London is located in areas that breach the new updated World Health Organization’s guidelines for nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter.
More than 500,000 people in London boroughs suffer from asthma and are vulnerable to the impacts of toxic air.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: “If no additional action is taken to reduce air pollution beyond the existing polices, around 550,000 Londoners would develop diseases attributable to air pollution over the next 30 years and the cumulative cost to the NHS and the social care system is estimated to be £10.4 billion."
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VWCSK on 26 May 2022
Who can blame workers not going back to the office, work from home is so much cheaper than having to deal with these modern day Dick Turpin's.on 8 June 2022
Just another way to fleece the motorist and keep the cash cow from running dry.We are already the highest taxed nation in the world, but these people are never happy until there's nothing left to gain, which will obviously be never!
First Congestion Charging, then LEZ, then ULEZ, then extended ULEZ, now they want to extend it again. Other cities already have versions and more will follow.
It won't be long before you won't be able to drive anywhere in the UK without paying additional daily charges for each and every city, town, village, suburb, estate or even maybe each b***** street!
Yes, we need cleaner air, but making people pay is not the answer. More legislation, tolls, fines etc is NOT the answer that's required to make it happen. That's just the best solution for the authorities to profit from it while they can. Until there are more incentives in place to make upgrades to cleaner vehicles or better clean vehicle technology is available at affordable money nothing will change except the size of the greed of the authorities.
on 8 June 2022
Sadiq khan is just out to fleece motorists to fund his failed bus and tube running , hes a legal thief , asking to legalise cannabis ,he should be sacked , all he is interested in is getting money to fund tfl that he has had to be bailed out of ???how Many times ,i hate the site of him, scrappage scheme they give you 4 k towards a electric car, i dont have the price of a electric car or anywhere to charge it , he devalued my vw camper overnight and cost me thousands, uturned on the mini cab drivers, claims emissions dropped after his plant pots blocked roads , and now you have to drive miles to get to somewhere that would have took 1 min now takes a half hour ,how does that cut emissions lies that i**** has to go before he starts growing cannabis in his plant pot road blocks,jchinuk on 29 December 2022
".that would have took 1 min now takes a half hour.."
Did you ever really drive somewhere that took 1 minute? No wonder the roads are congested.
on 28 November 2022
The Fleece Meistersinger is still at it.
Sadly he doesn’t have an original idea in his head he is a two trick pony. But he it what Londoners voted for. They only have themselves to blame.
What was his response to the upcoming expansion?
Get on your bikes get in the buses or buy a new car!
Wow a male Marie Antoinette. He hasn’t a clue. Let’s destroy a serviceable vehicle and dig up some more ore to make another one.
Motorists are moving in the direction required ( note I didn’t say the right direction - remember the push to diesel !)
Pathetic response and totally unwarranted - he didn’t even listen to the voters.
Martin Naughalty on 28 November 2022
How can this be extended to include Heathrow when the airline industry is given tax advantages by the government in spite being the single biggest polluting industry in the UK and the biggest handicap to the country achieving net zero ?Airplanes have a massively higher adverse effect on the air quality.
Trebobster on 28 November 2022
I fail to understand how the 20 mph enforcement supports cleaner air. To be secure from the multitude of speed cameras in various forms including average speed you need to be travelling around 18 mph. So second gear for most fossil fuel cars with manual transmissions which produces greater emissions. And in the course of that, one gets under and overtaken by cyclists which is less than safe. If all working in the Police, NHS, Fire Service, Ambulance Service reverted to public transport there would be chaos.Model Flyer on 29 November 2022
How does Sadiq Kahn keep getting elected ? Hes ruined the Police , Fire Brigade and other services by interfering and its all usually to raise cash probably for his TFLFijit on 29 November 2022
I can only agree with all the previous comments, just remember once they have finished charging the average driver off the road where is all the money they have got used to coming from? A tax on bus and train fares, licensing bicycles or maybe a walking tax, whatever it is once you have a revenue stream it is not going away.jchinuk on 29 December 2022
I live in London, though my car is exempt from the ULEZ charge.However, it's a bit unfair to blame Khan, the policy to extend the ULEZ was in his manifesto, so implementing it a just doing what he promised, though I know politicians fulfilling promises is a bit novel.
The turnout in his election was 46%, so moaning is a bit hypocritical unless you voted for someone else, as apparently over half of London voters did not care enough to vote to oppose this measure.
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