Ulez expanded to include whole of outer London

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The Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) has been expanded to see each of London's boroughs.

Drivers indispensable wage a complaint of £12.50 per time to thrust a non-compliant conveyance anyplace successful the portion nether the arguable clean-air plan.

A £160m scrappage strategy is inactive disposable for each Londoners to assertion from, with a maximum of £2,000 being offered per vehicle.

Small businesses, sole traders and charities are included successful the scheme.

You tin cheque to spot if your car is Ulez-compliant here.

To show the caller zone, Transport for London (TfL) said it would instal 2,750 cameras crossed outer London. As of mid-August 1,900 cameras had been erected, astir 70% of the full fig planned.

Meanwhile, the Met Police has received hundreds of reports of transgression harm being done to cameras, with much than 300 of them either vandalised oregon stolen.

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A fig of protests person been held astir the expansion

Nevertheless, TfL's manager of transport strategy and policy, Christina Calderato, insisted the transport authorization was "ready" for the expansion.

Ms Calderato besides recommended radical signed-up to an Auto Pay account connected TfL's website, wherever drivers are automatically charged truthful they "will ne'er person a PCN (penalty complaint notice)".

Those driving successful the portion successful a non-compliant car indispensable wage the £12.50 complaint online oregon by telephone up to 3 days aft they travelled.

The punishment for not paying is acceptable astatine £180, which goes down to £90 if it is paid wrong 14 days.

'My woman has decided to pay'

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Steve Allen doesn't entity to the Ulez successful rule but its implementation "hasn't been precise good handled"

There are mixed feelings astir the strategy among radical successful Bromley, south-east London.

Steve Allen, 56, says: "I don't person immoderate objection to the aerial being made cleaner, but the terms of it seems excessive."

He says his woman owns a non-compliant vehicles "that she loves", truthful she is choosing to wage the complaint erstwhile she goes to enactment each day,

"It hasn't been precise good handled by TfL, there's been a alternatively condescending cognition from them, and I don't deliberation it's been precise good handled by the section councils," helium adds.

Mayor 'making everyone struggle'

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This antheral thinks precise small of the expanded Ulez - and the mayor

Meanwhile a section builder had beardown feelings astir the politician for expanding the Ulez, saying: "I privation we could get escaped of him.

"Everyone's struggled for enactment and present he's making everyone conflict adjacent more."

He added helium thinks precise small of the scheme, but says "no-one listens to the communal person".

'Part of a bigger picture'

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This pistillate says the enlargement is needed to assistance combat clime change

However, 1 pistillate disagreed, saying: "We've got a large occupation successful presumption of clime change. We request to enactment a full bundle of measures successful and this is conscionable portion of a overmuch bigger picture.

"But it's got swallowed up by this precise unfortunate statement that it's not been implemented successful a precise adjuvant mode for a batch of people."

Sadiq Khan told BBC Breakfast: "We present person a truly effectual argumentation to trim aerial pollution.

"It's shown to beryllium effectual successful cardinal London and interior London, but I deliberation cleanable aerial is simply a close not a privilege."

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Sadiq Khan says the scrappage strategy initially prioritises those astir successful request of help

The politician said much than 15,000 applications had been made to the Ulez scrappage scheme successful the past week.

Since the announcement was made astir the enlargement successful 2022, it has been met with absorption by immoderate politicians and motorists.

Five Conservative councils took the argumentation to the High Court but mislaid aft the justice ruled the mayor's enlargement determination "was wrong his powers".

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the expanded strategy was going to "hit moving families".

"I don't deliberation that's the close priority, I don't deliberation that's the close happening to bash and I privation they hadn't done it," helium added.

Members of Mr Khan's ain enactment were besides hesitant to enactment the argumentation aft Labour mislaid the by-election successful Boris Johnson's erstwhile spot of Uxbridge and Ruislip.

At the time, Labour person Keir Starmer refused to accidental whether helium backed the Ulez expansion, and told the BBC the politician should "reflect" connected the policy.

The Conservative mayoral campaigner Susan Hall has pledged to reverse the Ulez enlargement if she is elected politician successful May 2024.

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