 Apply for funding to upgrade or replace your vehicle
Your business can now apply for a Clean Air Fund grant to help you upgrade or replace your 'non-compliant' vehicles ahead of the Clean Air Zone (CAZ) launching in November 2021.
For the Portsmouth charging CAZ, non-compliant vehicles are Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs), buses and coaches, taxis and private hire vehicles that:
- Do not meet Euro 6 emissions standards (so are Euro 5 or older) if they are diesel
- Do not meet Euro 4 emissions standards (so are Euro 3 or older) if they are petrol
If you’re not sure what Euro standard your vehicle is, please check your vehicle logbook.
HGVs, buses and coaches will need to pay £50 a day and taxis and private hire vehicles will need to pay £10 a day to drive in the zone.
A number of clean air zones will soon be in operation across the UK, with Bath's zone launched on 15 March, and Birmingham's due to launch in June. There are different classes of CAZ that charge different vehicle types - find out more on the government webpage.
The Portsmouth charging CAZ will launch in November 2021, so it's important that you respond quickly. This this will help us direct funding to those most in need. Once you've replaced or retrofitted your vehicle to Euro 6 diesel or Euro 4 petrol standard, you'll avoid paying the CAZ charge.
 To help reduce air pollution, new traffic-monitoring cameras will soon be installed
From April, contractors working on behalf of Portsmouth City Council will begin installing cameras and supporting poles to prepare for the launch of Portsmouth’s new Clean Air Zone (CAZ) later this year.
The cameras will use an automatic number plate recognition system (ANPR) to identify any ‘non-compliant’ vehicles that enter the zone.
They’ll only be used for this purpose and will always point towards traffic in order to read number plates. They won’t be able to record through windows of private residences or businesses.
The cameras will be installed at 34 sites around the edge of the CAZ, with a further five inside it. They’ll be placed on existing lamp columns and traffic signal poles wherever possible, but some new poles will also be installed.
Each site shouldn’t take longer than a day or two to complete and the council aims to have all the cameras in place by the end of September 2021.
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