GREEN MEANS GO
BRADFORD CABBIES CAN APPLY FOR UP TO £10K THROUGH CAZ FUNDED GRANTS
Taxi and private hire drivers in Bradford will be able to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to buy or hire electric vehicles. A £4 million pot has been set up using money from Bradford’s CAZ and drivers will be able to apply for grants from May. The grant will be increased for non-wheelchair accessible vehicles from £6,000 over two years to £10,000 over two years, bringing it into line with the HC and Wheelchair Accessible PHV EV grants. Proprietors who have already upgraded to other compliant vehicle types (such as petrol/ electric hybrid) can apply for a top- up grant to go fully electric. A Bradford Council spokesman
said: “The Bradford taxi trade has been extremely proactive in upgrading vehicles to Clean Air Zone standards. “Thanks to grants already issued it is one of the cleanest fleets in the country with 98 per cent of the 4,000 strong licensed taxi and PH trade meeting the CAZ standard. “There are currently 200,000 EV
movements per month in Bradford and these grants will support the Bradford taxi trade to also make the change to electric.” Cllr Sarah Ferrib added: “The taxi trade in Bradford is booming with applications to become a driver at an all-time high. We are pleased to further extend our support to the Bradford taxi trade for the upgrade of their vehicles to fully electric by offering up to £10,000 per vehicle in grant funding to
assist
proprietors with the running costs of a fully electric HC or PHV. “The funding will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis once the applications process goes live from May 2023 for Bradford licensed vehicle proprietors.”
BOURNEMOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE CABBIES COULD LEAVE OVER EMISSIONS
Almost a third of licensed taxis in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area are unlikely to comply with European exhaust emission standards. BCP councillors have turned down a plea from the trade association to
relax the council’s rules – although a review is to
be
requested for the new council to look at after the May elections. David Lane from the BCP Taxi and Private Hire Association told councillors at a meeting on 9 March, that unless the requirement to
meet the
standards were relaxed he feared it could result in many drivers being forced to leave the trade because they would not be able to afford to
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buy newer vehicles. The licensing committee meeting heard that 304 of the 938 BCP Council-registered fleet are thought to currently not comply with the Euro
6 emissions
standard. Most of the committee members were against relaxing the need for licensed vehicles to comply with the standard – saying it would undermine BCP’s commitment to climate change. Committee vice chair Cllr Toby Johnson said: “It would be a retrograde step for a council trying to be at the forefront of the climate change agenda.” Others said they would like to see the current age restrictions on vehicles changed, replacing it with
a mileage limit, and more done to encourage wheelchair accessible taxis, only two were registered in the past year. Cllr David Kelsey said he would like to see many of the HC/PH policies reviewed as most of the rules had been in place since before BCP Council came into being. Committee chair Cllr Judy Butt agreed to call for that review with the committee voting to keep existing policies in place for now. She is also to ask the council’s highways
team to review the
adequacy of taxi stand provision across the area after an informal audit found some possible shortcomings and places where new ranks might be provided.
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