Leeds and Leicester could adopt new schemes (Image: Getty)
Nottingham City Council Portfolio Holder for Transport, Councllor Adele Williams told Express.co.uk: This kind of doom-mongering about a Workplace Parking Levy sparking the collapse of city centres is utter nonsense. We heard this sort of thing before we implemented ours – and nine years later we still haven’t seen those predictions materialise. No businesses have left Nottingham due to the WPL and many have invested here in the knowledge they will have to pay it, if they have eleven or more parking spaces. Forward-thinking business increasingly will invest in cities which have excellent green public transport options like ours, funded in part through the £75m we have raised through the levy so far.
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Car tax updates will see a new emissions charge introduced for those using the most polluting petrol and diesel cars within the city centre. Bath and North East Somerset Council has warned drivers of most pre-euro 6 diesel cars and pre-euro 4 petrol vehicles will be affected by the new charge.
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak is said to be considering a 5p per litre hike on fuel duty charges to make a £20 a week Universal Credit increase permanent. However, Howard Cox, founder of FairFuelUK has attacked the proposals as he warned a fuel duty increase would raise “only a fraction” of the cost of a UC increase.