Charges apply to light goods vehicles below Euro 6 Diesel or Euro 4 Petrol standards and also heavy goods vehicles which are below Euro 6 Diesel standards.
HGVs that don’t comply with the requirement have to pay a daily £50 when entering the zone.
With £10 per day, the charge for LGVs is much lower.
If a business is based in Sheffield or Rotherham and runs LGVs then it could be eligible to apply for a temporary exemption until 5 June 2023.
Businesses can check if their vehicle is CAZ exempt here and can apply for an exemption here.
Map credits @ Sheffield City Council
The Clean Air Zone covers the inner ring road and city centre. A detailed interactive map can be found on the CAZ website.
The Sheffield-Rotherham Clean Air Zone is a legally mandated directive from the central government.
These are the cities that have already introduced such a zone or the launch is planned for the near future:
- Bath
- Birmingham
- Bradford
- Bristol
- Greater Manchester (under review)
- Portsmouth
To provide financial support to assist those affected by the charges, a grant was launched in December 2022.
Those, who would like to upgrade or replace a vehicle to meet CAZ standards can still apply for the funding, provided they are based in Sheffield or Rotherham. Financial support is available in the form of a grant, an interest subsidised loan or a mix of the two.
If a company replaced a polluting vehicle after 26 October 2021, it may also be eligible for a retrospective grant. This would cover a proportion of what the business paid for the new cleaner vehicle.
You can check out the application requirement and process here.
Photo credits @ Graham Haley, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons