Mayor plans to scrap London C-charge extension

Commercial Motor

December 2, 2008

Boris Johnson plans to scrap the western extension of Central London's congestion zone.

The Mayor of London is starting legal procedures to remove the £8-a-day charge for most of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea in the west of the capital from the spring of 2010.

This follows a five-week informal public consultation in which 67% of individual respondents and 86% of businesses stated they supported the removal of the western zone, launched in February 2007.

The consultation attracted nearly 28,000 responses.

A draft revision to the mayor's transport strategy reflecting his intention to remove the extension will be the subject of a 12-week statutory public consultation next summer.

Transport for London (TfL) will also need to carry out a separate formal consultation.

Jo Tanner, director of communications at the Freight Transport Association, adds: "Obviously this is a relief for businesses operating in London, although taken against last week's fuel duty bombshell the additional cost would have been a drop in the ocean."

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