The Birmingham Clean Air Zone Scrappage Scheme is now live, offering eligible motorists £2,000 off a new vehicle from Motorpoint if they scrap their old one.
Birmingham City Council selected Motorpoint as its scrappage partner in the Clean Air Zone’s £10m Scrappage and Travel Scheme; the car retailer will fulfil the scrappage scheme from its Aston and Oldbury branches in the West Midlands.
Motorists who work within the Clean Air Zone for more than 18 hours per week, and who earn under £30k a year, are eligible for the scrappage scheme.
They receive a £2,000 credit towards a new vehicle from Motorpoint.
Motorists who don’t want another car can choose a £2,000 ‘mobility credit’ to use on public transport via Transport for West Midlands Swift Card instead.
The Birmingham Clean Air Zone goes live on 1 June 2021. Owners of vehicles that do not meet the standards will have to pay £8 a day to enter the zone.
Clean Air Zone compliant cars
Motorpoint general manager Kevin Cartwright said the Birmingham Clean Air Zone presented an opportunity to reduce levels of nitrogen dioxide in the city.
“Motorpoint has hundreds of low mileage, nearly new vehicles, all under warranty, available at its branches across the city – every one of which is Clean Air Zone compliant.
Councillor Waseem Zaffar, Birmingham cabinet minister for transport and environment, said that every year, “up to 1,000 people in Birmingham are dying prematurely from conditions linked to air pollution including cancer, heart and lung disease.
“This is an unacceptable situation.
“The Clean Air Zone will help improve air quality within our city – and the Vehicle Scrappage and Travel Credit Scheme helps tackle the source of the problem by removing the most polluting vehicles from our roads.”
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