Bristol's long-awaited Clean Air Zone will launch in exactly a month's time. The scheme - which the council is legally required to introduce to cut harmful air pollution from vehicles driving in the city centre - will be launching over a year late and will enable Bristol to meet its clean air targets by 2023.
The CAZ has been controversially delayed several times since the Government first ordered the council to reduce the city’s toxic NO2 levels to within legal limits as quickly as possible back in 2017. Bristol was among 24 local authorities ordered to improve air quality by the government.
The CAZ start date of November 28 will mean that from that date anyone driving a vehicle that is deemed too polluting will have to pay a fee. Bristol City Council estimates that around 29 per cent of vehicles in Bristol will attract the charges - which have been set at £9 a day for private cars and other smaller vehicles such as taxis but rise to £100 for HGVs, coaches and buses.
