A special report by BBC Midlands Today has highlighted Westside BID’s concerns about Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone.
The coverage follows a debate in London over the planned expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).
BBC reporter Kevin Reide interviewed Steve Emmison, general manager of Velvet Music Rooms on Broad Street, who said: “We work to 4am at the weekend. So if our DJs are coming in from 10pm all the way through to 4am, it’s costing them twice for the congestion charge. Why can’t it be one charge for 24 hours rather than two charges?”
Also interviewed in the BBC report was Mike Olley, who runs Westside BID, who said: “I would like the council to take out the Clean Air Zone because they’ve done what they’ve said they were going to set out to do. They’ve got the air cleaner.
“And yet we’ve still got a taxation system collecting tens of millions of pounds a year off the most impoverished people in our society.” Here’s the BBC Midlands Today report:
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