ULEZ: London mayor lacks powers to expand zone, High Court told

London's mayor "lacks the legal powers" to extend the Ultra-Low Emission Zone , five Conservative-led councils have argued at the High Court.

Lorries, buses, coaches and heavy vans which are non-compliant are charged £100 under a separate low emission zone scheme, which already covers most of London.Claims that nine out of 10 cars already complied with ULEZ standards in outer London were based on data from just 106 cameras, the High Court heard.

Transport for London submitted information about its ANPR camera network ahead of the judicial review proceedings. It shows that while there are 1,156 cameras gathering data in the inner London "middle ring" of ULEZ, there were just 106 cameras covering the whole of outer London on which it based its claims about compliance.Both bodies refused to make this information public.

In written arguments, he added that the mayor and TfL's approach would "bypass legal safeguards", which were "designed to ensure that any new charging scheme was properly considered before coming into effect". The barrister said Mr Khan's decisions would help to get London's air quality closer to legal limits, in the areas where it is exceeded, and for World Health Organisation guidelines to be reached everywhere.He added that over the past 16 years, London's mayors had used powers to order changes to emissions zones rules in the capital on many occasions.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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