A driver from London has told how he’s asking Bristol City Council for leniency after he managed to rack up almost £1,000 in Clean Air Zone fines without even knowing Bristol now has a Clean Air Zone.
Nick Gillett, who was born in Bristol but now lives in west London, borrowed a car from a friend in London who was going away for a few months abroad. He decided to use the car for trips back to Bristol to visit family, and went twice down the M4 at Christmas and again in January.
But Nick knew nothing about the Clean Air Zone, which came into force in Bristol at the end of November, and had no clue the car he’d borrowed was an 11-year-old diesel, and so was liable to pay the £9 a day Clean Air Zone charge.
