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.
A 20 percent coronavirus discount has been applied for year one (Image: Newham London)
However, the Council has confirmed these costs will rise to £200 from next year when the 20 percent discount comes to an end.
Vehicles emitting between 171 and 225 g/km of CO2 will pay £120 this year with costs rising to £150 from year two.
Costs decrease in small increments with the least polluting models emitting between 0 and 50 g/km of CO2 facing no charge at all.
They said: “Newham residents are exposed to high levels of toxic pollution from vehicles, contributing to the highest death rate in England, according to Public Health England, with 96 people dying each year due to the poor quality of the air that they breathe.