Birmingham Clean Air Zone

onesiedale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Derbyshire
Just received a penalty notice for my van making a food delivery into Birmingham.
As it happened over a month ago I'm due to pay £120.
This is the first time I've ever heard of a CAZ. Tried applying for an exemption but online won't let me proceed. Telephone help is none existant. What other options have I got?
Has anyone else heard of this?
 

Romeogolf

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
They have done it in Bath too. First I learned of it was getting a warning letter for taking the truck into town. That was in December so I didn’t get a fine as they were just bringing it in. It covers a good portion of town and routes through, which I assume is their intention to send everything around the M4/M5.
 

onesiedale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Derbyshire
Guess it was just bad luck that we went into B/ham within a week of it starting.
Talking to the girl on the helpline , she said there's a full team of them just dealing with the exact same issue. ie innocent criminals like me from out of town, never even heard of a CAZ untill the penalty notice comes through the post. Trouble is its all up to the individual to go online and pay for it within 6 days. Fine of course, if only you knew that you had to do it.
 
Travel into Brum a lot, and this has been on the local radio stations and on lots of billboards and signs through the city and the road into the city for a while. Think its £8 a day if you are not a regular and your vehicle does not pass the test.
 

thesilentone

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cumbria
No different to when the they introduced the Congestion Charge Zones in London, to the unfamiliar a bear trap just waiting. Same thing, unless you paid pronto, a letter then a big increase.

Got that T sh!t :-(
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Just received a penalty notice for my van making a food delivery into Birmingham.
As it happened over a month ago I'm due to pay £120.
This is the first time I've ever heard of a CAZ. Tried applying for an exemption but online won't let me proceed. Telephone help is none existant. What other options have I got?
Has anyone else heard of this?

saw signs a few weeks ago when i drove in

was in an electric car so no charge

its not very clear where it starts / ends is it !
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
I remember seeing on a website somewhere last year, a large 3point mounted box with cage sides, for going on a tractor for Urban use and avoiding all of the tax and penalty issues. As I recall, they pushed it as a being an alternative to a transit pickup. :)

Seemed like an answer to a problem, but how realistic it is in town...? Mind in London, if you had a 40K box, that would be just fine in traffic most times....
 
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Given these Cities pollute everyone elses air, shouldn't they be paying us all ?

I thought the principle was the polluter pays .. you don't see anyone in London paying for polluting countryside air.
 

masseybreaker

Member
Location
wakefield
what gets me about these clean air zones is they spend millions setting them up and running them but in a few years most of the trucks and cars will be new enough to be non polluting so there is only a few that pay so they shut them but its only our money so it doesnt matter
 

7610 super q

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It wasn't so long ago diesel was the savior. Who's to say that in 10 years time the first generation of electric cars are found to be " un green " due to the wrong sort of batteries or some such ? All this goal post moving would be fine if cars cost £1k each. But they don't.
 

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