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Drivers Pay Hundreds As Net Zero Parking Charges Spread Nationwide

by Richard Eldred
30 December 2023 7:00 PM

U.K. councils are increasingly charging drivers for parking based on vehicle emissions, hitting higher-polluting cars with higher fees and disproportionately impacting those with lower incomes. The Telegraph has the story.

Drivers are having to fork out hundreds of pounds each year to park their cars as new Net Zero charges spread nationwide.

Analysis by the Telegraph has found that one in seven councils charges for parking based on vehicle emissions, which leads to the most polluting vehicles being hit with higher fees.

Some councils have tripled their rates for petrol cars in the last year, while some drivers are having to pay as much as £110 extra this year for year-long permits.

Drivers of diesel vehicles are being increasingly targeted, with 18 councils now introducing separate surcharges for these vehicles.

Councils argue that such charges are needed to improve air quality and encourage people to use more sustainable forms of transport.

However, the spread of the charges has been criticised by motoring groups, which have labelled them “inherently unfair” and “inconsistent”.

Luke Bodset, a spokesman for the AA, said: “These charges discriminate against families that need larger vehicles and punish those on lower incomes who cannot afford lower emission vehicles.”

The RAC said the policies “smack of councils simply trying to extract as much money as possible from drivers”.

When councils charge for parking according to vehicle emissions, they base rates on the size of a driver’s engine or how much carbon dioxide a vehicle emits. Councils also reduce parking prices for electric vehicles. …

London councils were the most likely to implement these charges, with responses revealing that at least 20 of the capital’s 32 boroughs have them in place.

But their use has also spread further afield with places such as Sheffield, Somerset and Sevenoaks among the non-London authorities to use a form of emissions-base charging.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Carbon EmissionsGreen LeviesLocal AuthoritiesMotoristsNet Zero

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

Let’s make that 100%. This is our ‘window of opportunity’ as Klaus Schwab might say… bring on the tumbrels. No Mercy. Information, resources and useful links: https://www.LCAHub.org/

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Pavlov Bellwether

I was l thinking it should be 100%

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Wednesday 15th September 5.30pm Rebels on Roundabouts
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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago

How many of them work for the government or civil service? It’s evident they don’t think rules apply to them.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

Just following the example shown by our “leaders and betters”, like the BBQ the G7 had in Cornwall, Obama’s birthday bash, visiting opticians etc.

Last edited 3 years ago by Smelly Melly
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Richy_m_99
Richy_m_99
3 years ago

Lucy Moreton, of the Immigration Services Union, said the quarantine system “very much relied on the honesty of people to do the right thing, rather than any type of meaningful enforcement”.

Like everything else about this scamdemic, the whole thing is theatre, the government pretending to be doing something, whilst reliant on the gullability of Jo Public.

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Splattt
Splattt
3 years ago

Don’t know anyone that bothered following the regulations 100% on return.
Not a single person.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Splattt

I’ve ignored every “regulation” from day one. It’s all a scam, though a very dangerous one. We have a duty to resist this nonsense at all times. It will go on until we stop it.

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Ruth Learner
Ruth Learner
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Yeah agree- This non news is filler I guess – who gives a flying fuck about an absurd token rule based on the whim of a bunch of criminals at large. I had to ‘self isolate’ v recently and just carried on as per normal (albeit I work from home anyway- but I went to shops etc for food). If I had an illness I would have stayed at home as always but I didn’t. The least complicit action is to ignore every single lie and just live like this wasn’t happening – since day 1 for me.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
3 years ago

I doubt it made any difference.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

I’m sure it didn’t (as ‘sure’ as you can be about anything).

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

“the honesty of people to do the right thing”

… which would be to totally ignore stupid restrictions that have no purpose.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Absolutely.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

And , as far as ” the honesty of people to do the right thing” we should follow the lead of our elected representatives.

OK so it did not take too long to reboot from that principled position..

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

No meaningful enforcement, eh?
Good.

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cloud6
cloud6
3 years ago

As far as I can research there are no laws/regulations requiring quarantine, there are rules and guidelines, these can, however, be run through with a coach and horses (loads of excuses).

Be warned that the Government can detain you through The 1984 Public Health Act which allows them to detain infectious people.

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Owens57
Owens57
3 years ago
Reply to  cloud6

I’m returning from Italy soon and I’ve no intention of quarantining as I have had Covid and had a private test for antibodies. I haven’t had the vaccine. I also have to have 2 tests. My husband on the other hand having 2 jabs only has to take 1 test and doesn’t have to quarantine. The fact that the UK government does not recognise natural immunity is not “following the science”. Let them knock on my door, I’ll be taking my son to uni

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bus_surfing
bus_surfing
3 years ago

The BBC have precisely zero credibility and exist only to push regime approved propaganda. This story is nothing more than seeding for the fraudulent manufacture of ever more spurious justification for the regime’s inevitable attempt to impose another unlawful ‘lockdown’.

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Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
3 years ago

Nice framing:

i) ‘breaking the rules’ versus ‘not following the rules’

ii) ‘breaking the law’ versus ‘not following the law’

The western regimes are always on about ‘nasty evil Russia not following the rules’. We can now see for ourselves what their ‘rules-based order’ is all about.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

Is it me or are the so called arguments the government are using to control the sheeple getting more ridicules and even the dumbest of the sheep are seeing through the lies? Or is it just wishful thinking on my behalf?

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

I thought polls showed that almost everyone was in favour of travel quarantine measures. And yet a third are broke the rules…. hmm, how interesting.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

For yourself, rules are rules until they become inconvenient to yourself. For everybody else, rules are rules, period.

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iane
iane
3 years ago

Strange – I used to believe one was innocent until proved guilty. Still, I used to be young (No, not him!) and naive.

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Lilacblue
Lilacblue
3 years ago

The scamps!

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Stephensceptic
Stephensceptic
3 years ago

This increasingly resembles all totalitarian systems.

Totally stupid rules.

Everyone knows that.

People break them when they feel like it.

There is then just a risk of being caught and suffering a penalty.

But the whole thing is really just a power game and an ego trip by the people in “power”.

Cloaked as moral virtue and using human fear as the weapon.

The lack of logic is part of the point too.

Last edited 3 years ago by Stephensceptic
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Beefbeefbeef
Beefbeefbeef
3 years ago

If they know that about one third were breaking their stupid rules then that means a whole lot more were actually breaking the rules. Well done to all of them. Quarantine is yet more “be seen to be doing something” nonsense rather than anything which actually works when covid is already widespread.

Last edited 3 years ago by Beefbeefbeef
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Zoomer@14
Zoomer@14
3 years ago

So what if they broke the rules…anyone complying with house arrest is a bedwetting virtue signaller.
The virus is a hoax.

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TheBigman
TheBigman
3 years ago

This is only being trotted out now to programme us into a more authoritarian approach later. I. E camps.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago

Well good on all who disobeyed the ‘rules’.

I was supposed to self isolate for ten days. I was staying with my friend and his 3 kids. How does ‘self-isolation’ work in this instance?

Also I had to do the ‘tests’ but guess who took them to the post office? Yup me.

Basically apart from doing the tests I carried on as per normal, I did get contacted by someone on my Thai phone number and when I was aked if she could share the information with foreign office I stated categorically NO. Whoever they were did not bother me again.

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