ENVIRONMENT

Cities slam Government over clean air hold-up

England’s two largest councils have blamed the government for ‘significant’ delays to their plans to introduce charging Clean Air Zones (CAZs) to tackle air pollution.

England's two largest councils have blamed the government for ‘significant' delays to their plans to introduce charging Clean Air Zones (CAZs) to tackle air pollution.

Birmingham and Leeds city councils said the hold-up resulted from a ‘government delay in delivering digital systems required to make the zones operational and enforceable'.

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