Clean air category and registration

[Pudsey Bear]

Aha!! there is

Drive in a clean air zone

Find out if you need to pay to drive in a clean air zone and check your vehicle meets emission standards.

www.gov.uk

 

[Fazerloz]

Mines under 3.5t and I'm not sure it is true for me either, but could be expensive finding out.

You should find out shortly as Iv'e cloned your plates.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

S'ok I cloned them first.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Is there an app to avoid Clean Air Zone?


Waze will notify drivers if their route goes through the CAZ, allowing them to choose whether or not to travel that way. The routing will help drivers steer clear of unnecessary fines and reduce their carbon footprint by finding optimal routes to travel.28 Nov 2022

All lies

I just installed Waze as it supposed to stop you going into a CAZ, it just routed me directly into Bradford so a waste of space, it's awful to use anyway I've tried it a few times I thought with it being owned by Google it may have improved, it hasn't but someone needs to extract a digit or two and sort it out.

 

[Robmac]

Is there an app to avoid Clean Air Zone?


Waze will notify drivers if their route goes through the CAZ, allowing them to choose whether or not to travel that way. The routing will help drivers steer clear of unnecessary fines and reduce their carbon footprint by finding optimal routes to travel.28 Nov 2022

All lies

I just installed Waze as it supposed to stop you going into a CAZ, it just routed me directly into Bradford so a waste of space, it's awful to use anyway I've tried it a few times I thought with it being owned by Google it may have improved, it hasn't but someone needs to extract a digit or two and sort it out.

I think that some of the GPS manufacturers already give an option to avoid congestion charge zones, designating them as Toll roads?

If so, then I would imagine that this will be updated on an ongoing basis as it is introduced outside London.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Not found one yet though Rob.

 

[Robmac]

Not found one yet though Rob.

Don't TomTom and Garmin still give the option to avoid Toll roads?

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Don't TomTom and Garmin still give the option to avoid Toll roads?

Dunno, wouldn't touch them with a bargepole Rob, overpriced and under achieving, Google maps and Maps.me are all I need I do have CoPilot but it's a PITA to use

 

[wildebus]

Aha!! there is

Drive in a clean air zone

Find out if you need to pay to drive in a clean air zone and check your vehicle meets emission standards.

www.gov.uk

View attachment 116910

Out of interest I look at all the zones .... The Bristol and Bath ones are very cynical in how they are set up in order to maximise the income. If you happen to be driving even close to either, you end up having to enter the zones unless you take a major detour, thereby creating more pollution.
At least with say the Birmingham zone, it is within all the roads that act as a ring around the city.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I've not even seen a map of any that helps you avoid them.

 

[zzr1400tim]

I might be thick with regard to all this "clean air zone crap" but I live in Birmingham and drive a 2004 gas-guzzling Jaguar XK8 - with a V8 4.2L engine that does (at best) 25 miles to the gallon
so why is my car exempt from the Birmingham zone? I have checked it out many times (not wanting a fine) and its exempt .. bloody weird

 

[wildebus]

I might be thick with regard to all this "clean air zone crap" but I live in Birmingham and drive a 2004 gas-guzzling Jaguar XK8 - with a V8 4.2L engine that does (at best) 25 miles to the gallon
so why is my car exempt from the Birmingham zone? I have checked it out many times (not wanting a fine) and its exempt .. bloody weird

because you live in the zone I would think. read the exemption clauses.

 

[zzr1400tim]

because you live in the zone I would think. read the exemption clauses.

I live 4 miles from the Birmingham "zone"

 

[Robmac]

Just had an email from the C&M club advertising last minute breaks available, one of the venues was the Crystal Palace site. A quick check on their postcode shows it to be 'Inside expanding ULEZ'.

I bet that does wonders for their trade.

 

[GeoffL]

I think on many sites now Kev you can enter your registration to find out if you comply before travelling.

Not that it would make it any more pleasant!

For me, the big issue is that these wretched zones are springing up all over the place and so you can never be sure that you have an up-to-date list and/or the charges that apply. If Bradford is anything to go by, some signs at least seem set up so that you're passed the 'point of no return' by the time you're notified you're about to enter a zone.

As I mentioned up-thread, GoPilot have options to be warned of and/or to avoid 'environmental' zones.

Just had an email from the C&M club advertising last minute breaks available, one of the venues was the Crystal Palace site. A quick check on their postcode shows it to be 'Inside expanding ULEZ'.

I bet that does wonders for their trade.

AFAICT, both Abbey Wood and Crystal Palace are affected. At £600 for the trip in and out, that's a definite no-no for me!

 

[GeoffL]

Out of interest I look at all the zones .... The Bristol and Bath ones are very cynical in how they are set up in order to maximise the income. If you happen to be driving even close to either, you end up having to enter the zones unless you take a major detour, thereby creating more pollution.
At least with say the Birmingham zone, it is within all the roads that act as a ring around the city.

Bristol and Bath both break the general principle that major through roads should not be included. The cynic in me is particularly angry about Bristol because the A4 and A37 are included together with Temple Meads station approach. With the prevailing wind from the SW, traffic picking people up from the station and through traffic on the A4 would cause minimal pollution within the actual city centre and so they could have placed the boundary just to the West of the A4 (red in the piccy below).

 

[Thistle]

Interesting development in London, some local borough councils are challenging the mayors expansion plans.
What a shame the local inhabitants across the uk don’t appear to have been given any rights to vote for or against implementing these money generation schemes, or perhaps they did?

 

[GeoffL]

So... today was the big test of CoPilot GPS as we needed to get from last night's pub stop (Squinting Cat, nr Harrogate) to the CCC site at Wolverley. I had kittens as it first directed me towards Bradford and had Jan on Google Maps looking for a way to avoid what I thought was coming. Then it directed me into Leeds city centre, thus avoiding the more direct route along the Bradford ring road. Thankfully, Leeds CAZ seems to have been scrapped -- but I hate driving through unfamiliar cities. Last year, we did pretty much the same trip (Squinting Cat to the Fromebridge MIll pub stop near Stroud) and CoPilot took us on the Bradford ring road -- so it seems that selecting "Avoid Environmental Zones" works...

 

[Pudsey Bear]

The annoying thing for me is if my van is a private vehicle , and is registered with Bradfords CAZ why doesn't appear on all the other towns database, it should be a UK wide thing not just local. Motorhomes bring money to an area usually even if only to fill up with fuel as fuel is cheaper in town than out.

 

[jacquigem]

I don't know how it works, but the London LEZ/ULEZ works for vehicles from at least the EU and Europe. There was someone from Switzerland who posted here about getting a fine when returning home. The TFL LEZ/ULEZ payment page has a link for foreign registered vehicles. I've never looked to see what countries it does cover. (might look out of interest )

May well be if you have driven up from, say, Namibia you may well get away with it.

Decided to get in touch with Sheffield Council re my Spanish plates. They confirmed that their equipment will not recognise my plates so I will not be charged in Sheffield.