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Sheffield ready to charge to enter city centre Sheffield City Council will take a bold step towards making the city’s air cleaner and safer at a special Co-operative Executive meeting on 26 October 2021.
The Clean Air Zone would involve a daily charge for polluting vehicles to enter the city centre and inner ring road. The proposed Category C zone would mean:
If the decision passes, the Council will create a Category C Clean Air Zone, accepting £24million of Government funding to help local drivers upgrade to cleaner vehicles.
• Buses, taxis, vans, lorries and coaches which do not meet the Euro 6 diesel or Euro 4 petrol emissions standard will be charged.
The Clean Air Zone means the most polluting buses, taxis, vans, coaches and lorries will pay a charge to enter the city centre. Private vehicles will be exempt.
• Private cars and motorbikes will not be charged.
Sheffield’s proposed charges are £10 a day for LGVs and taxis, and £50 a day for buses, coaches and HGVs.
• In a change to previous proposals, taxis (Private Hire and Hackney Carriages) will no longer need to be Electric or Ultra Low Emissions Under the new proposals, Euro 6 Diesel or Euro 4 Petrol will not be subject to the charge.
Before the zone is introduced, a second citywide consultation will take place in November. This will focus on packages of support to help local businesses and taxi drivers reduce their emissions, including grants and loans.
Sheffield – like most cities in England – currently has illegal levels of harmful nitrogen dioxide (NO2). There is a legal obligation to reduce roadside emissions from older, polluting vehicles in the shortest time possible. Air pollution contributes
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to lung disease, asthma, heart attacks and stroke. The tragic death of nine-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah in London in 2013 was directly attributed to air pollution. Most other cities are introducing a Clean Air Zone, including Manchester, Bristol, Bradford and Newcastle. The funding available for upgrades incentivises local drivers to make the jump to electric, rather than another fossil fuel vehicle. Other cities have seen better air quality after introducing Clean Air Zones. In the three months after Birmingham introduced their zone, NO2 dropped by 20 per cent on previous years. Despite dropping during the pandemic, levels of pollution in Sheffield have increased as traffic returned to the roads. Funding will also be available to help local taxi drivers and businesses upgrade to electric or ultra-lowemissions (ULEV) vehicles.
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