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London van scrappage scheme announced

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December 18, 2018

  • New £23 million scheme to help smaller business owners scrap older, more polluting vans and switch to cleaner vehicles ahead of ULEZ
  • Mayor urges Environment Secretary Michael Gove to match City Hall funding and help low-income Londoners scrap older cars
  • Vehicles account for nearly 50 per cent of London’s toxic NOx air emissions

 

A VAN scrappage scheme has been announced by the Mayor of London worth £23 million.

Ahead of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), the scheme will  help London’s micro-businesses (fewer than 10 employees) in the first instance to switch to the cleanest vehicles, including electric.

The London van scrappage scheme is planned to be in place ahead of the introduction of London’s new central London ULEZ (April 08, 2019). This brings charges for vehicles which do not meet stricter emission standards that apply 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Diesel vans which do not meet the latest Euro 6 standard will have to pay £12.50 a day to drive in central London.

The London Mayor said this latest step was part of his efforts to tackle air pollution in the capital.

Under the City Hall scheme, funding would be available to scrap vans that do not comply with the new ULEZ standards, but which are driven into the ULEZ zone regularly. City Hall officials and TfL are working out how the money could be spent most effectively.

The Mayor said that further details would be available next year.

As well as announcing his own City Hall fund, Sadiq Khan the London Mayor, urged Government ministers to match-fund London’s proposed scrappage scheme with £23 million of Government money.

Khan, said: “Air pollution is a national health crisis that is stunting the lung development of our children and leading to thousands of premature deaths. To truly get a grip on our lethal air we need to take bold action to rid our city of the most polluting vehicles.

“It’s not good enough to do nothing, and I’m determined to take real action which is why I’ve already delivered the Toxicity Charge in central London for the oldest polluting vehicles, cleaned up our bus fleet, and brought forward the Ultra Low Emission Zone. My scrappage scheme is my next step in tackling pollution.”

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