Capital marks out strategy for low-emission zone

15 November 2006
 
Consultation into a London-wide low-emission zone planned for 2008 has begun.
The scheme will use powers under schedule 23 of the Greater London Authority Act to charge commercial vehicles to drive into the whole of the Greater London area.
Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, wants the scheme to encourage owners of high-polluting vehicles to either update them to eventually comply with the strict Euro IV standard or replace them with modern ones already up to the standard.
The scheme will start with heavier lorries over 12t – rather than 7.5t, after lobbying from the Freight Transport Association – as proposed in the earlier February consultation. Unlike the congestion charge, the scheme could operate around the clock, 365 days a year, using cameras to identify registration numbers driving within all of Greater London. The costs of permit were revealed for the first time at £200 for a vehicle over 12ts, and £100 for smaller ones, with fines of five times the charge for not paying, which could be reduced by 50% if paid within the standard 14 days.
Gordon Telling, FTA policy manager for London and the Southeast, said the association supported measures to improve air quality, but he believed this method was not the way forward. He said the scheme did make provision to cut down on particulates through fitting traps, but did not tackle nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.

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