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Clean Air Zones
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Re: Clean Air Zones
Our son and family live in Bristol, but I see the zone is quite small and around the dock area and up to Clifton, so if we take the van will be ok. Noticed Bath also, so will stick to to the M32/M4 when in the van from now on. Think Baltic Wharf is closing soon.
Thanks for the info.
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Re: Clean Air Zones
Us also, not been in one yet. You just have to make a diversion, like looking for LPGIanH wrote:I have a policy of never visiting places with so called clean air zones, not just in UK but Europe too, Arnhem as an example...
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Re: Clean Air Zones
Now the problem with Bristol's Clean Air Zone is that, as far as I can see, it doesn't recognise a category of vehicle called a Private HGV. An ordinary HGV (say an artic) which has a EURO VI engine is exempt. But that's a category of engine different from a Euro 6 engine [the capital letters and Roman numerals differentiate.]
I'd (a) check what my V5C describes my motorhome as, for tax purpose (Is it PLG, like my Nuevo, or is it Private HGV?) and, assuming that the Burford is the latter, I'd (2) write to Bristol with a copy of the V5C to confirm that as a PHGV [not a HGV] which has a Euro 5 (or whatever your engine is) diesel engine, it should be charged the daily rate of £9.00
I stayed at Bristol Baltic Wharf last week, before the CAZ comes into effect. The site is closing in December.
If you do write to Bristol, please share the answer with the Forum.
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Re: Clean Air Zones
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Re: Clean Air Zones
Phil Bowen wrote:I have been given an email address for a person who might help, but it seems a bit chaotic there. I was given a phone number by a guy in London for the Bristol office and number was not recognised.Thanks Cymro will check my V5C details. I don't think it will shut in December too many problems for the flats to go ahead.
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No bookings available after 18 Dec, so currently on schedule to close.
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Re: Clean Air Zones
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Re: Clean Air Zones
So what has the club, supposedly run on behalf of its members, done to have older MHs exempted from Clean Air Zones? As far as I can tell, nothing and if they have done something, it's been incredibly ineffective.
Is it simply a case, once again, of if you can afford it its avoidable and if you can't then you have to pay? Seems the wrong way round somehow.
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Re: Clean Air Zones
The rest of Europe has a sensible idea: each country issues a coloured disc for your vehicle that you stick in the windscreen and shows what pollution you are. They cover the whole country. So in Germany we saw that most cars had a green sticker, the same as ours and it allowed us everywhere we went. Our sticker for France is the same, it tells anyone who wants to know that we are Euro 4.
Furthermore, if you go to Germany you can buy what is called "A 9 Euro Ticket". This ticket surprisingly costs 9 Euros, and it allows unlimited travel on any train other than inter-city express trains, any bus, any tram, any time of any day for a period of a month. What a fantastic way to reduce pollution! However it doesn't increase the local council staff or their income so it wouldn't work here. Also, in the whole Dunkirk area, all buses are free all day and all week and have been since 2017. If this country had any actual interest in reducing pollution whilst allowing people to move around it would do well to look across the channel.
Personally I have given up on motorhoming in the UK, I am sorry but £35 a night camp sites can't compete with free aires in France or free stellplatz in Germany, and the Lake District whether its a chargeable zone of some sort or not, doesn't hold a candle to the free Alps.
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Re: Clean Air Zones
Someone needs to take the whole taxation system in the UK and kick it in the bin when it comes to transportation ( and other things but lets not go there). My Mercedes car and van similar engines, the car is euro4 and the van is euro5, the car gets in to Bristol free the van costs £100. Nonsense.
Yet the road tax on the car is more than the van? In Bath I can take the motorhome or a horsebox into the zone with a discount from £100 down to £9 but have to fill out a load of forms and apply for a permit first. What kind of bullshine is that, still guess it keeps some more pen pushers employed.
No wonder so many of us go to Europe wher things are sooooo simple!
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Re: Clean Air Zones
Thanks groundhog it really hurts at the moment I don’t know how I will enjoy motorhoming in the futuregroundhog wrote:David, so sorry to read of your sad loss, my condolences.
Someone needs to take the whole taxation system in the UK and kick it in the bin when it comes to transportation ( and other things but lets not go there). My Mercedes car and van similar engines, the car is euro4 and the van is euro5, the car gets in to Bristol free the van costs £100. Nonsense.
Yet the road tax on the car is more than the van? In Bath I can take the motorhome or a horsebox into the zone with a discount from £100 down to £9 but have to fill out a load of forms and apply for a permit first. What kind of bullshine is that, still guess it keeps some more pen pushers employed.
No wonder so many of us go to Europe wher things are sooooo simple!
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Re: Clean Air Zones
I could copy it here, but this is about clean air zones so it's not appropriate.
Thinking of you I have posted it in the general discussions lounge area
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Re: Clean Air Zones
Glasgow has just recently put a Low Emission Zone in place - you can check here if you are going to Glasgow
https://www.lowemissionzones.scot/get-ready/vehicle-registration-checker
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Re: Clean Air Zones
We never go anywhere with an LEZ. We also make appropriate council aware that not only will we not visit their town nor will we spend any money there.
Whether that is understood by such people is irrelevant.
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Re: Clean Air Zones
Basically includes inner ring road and area inside it.
Includes “Light goods vehicles such as vans, pickup trucks, minibuses and camper vans”
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