Land Rover tax for biggest most polluting vehicles
Land Rover tax for biggest most polluting vehicles is being considered by Cardiff council who are considering plans to charge people who own larger cars more to park in the city and plans to ban vehicles over a certain size from applying for any permit to park in restricted areas. Cars which are highly polluting could be charged more too.
A consultation is currently underway about major parking changes in the city consulting with residents about the new parking zones, changes to resident and visitor permits and rules such as students not being able to apply for new permits. Cardiff University’s Student Union has launched a campaign against the plans saying “without parking permit access, these students risk facing significant barriers to both their education and daily lives, effectively treating them as second-class citizens.” You can read more about the details in full here.
The council says in its consultation it is proposing changes to parking permits to “help us manage on-street parking effectively and efficiently”.
Visitors permits will be changed from the current hourly permit to daily ones to stop people using resident permits for a third vehicle and there would be an annual cap of 240 days parking for visitors.
Within the consultation it explains the rationale for that, saying: “We have received feedback that hourly permits can be difficult to manage. Changing this so each visitor permit lasts a day will be easier for residents. Vehicle registrations on daily permits can still be changed at any time if residents have different visitors throughout the day. ”
Another proposal is that any properties built after September 1, 2024, would not be able to have a permit for any of the new parking zones. Another is that there would be a limit on vehicles over 3,500kg revenue weight obtaining parking permits of any kind.
The consultation is also gauging opinions on whether larger vehicles (vehicles over 2,400kg revenue weight) should pay more for permits.
It’s considering whether permits should cost more for larger vehicles such as SUVs as they take up more parking space than smaller vehicles.
The gross vehicle weight, or as Cardiff refer to it revenue weight, is the maximum weight of a vehicle, including the driver, passengers, fuel, and load. Of the top five in this Autocar list of popular SUVs four would exceed this limit – they are the Kia EV9, Land Rover Discovery Sport, Hyundai Santa Fe, and Volvo XC60.
There is no indication yet of what permits – which have recently gone up in price – would cost. Attached documentation says: “Permit costs are set separately by the council every year as part of our budget process. We are therefore not consulting on permit prices as part of the city parking plan as consultations on permit prices are undertaken when the budget is set.”
