The council has more than 600 vehicles across all its departments that will be unable to enter the city centre since the LEZ enforcement started on June 1 this year.
They were told there are 616 vehicles currently non-compliant and 46 will be modified with catalytic converters to bring them up to the required emissions standards.The council said here is no impact on services and that the vehicles were not required to enter the city centre. The response said: “There are only a handful of companies providing the service to revise the emissions profile of vehicles from Euro 5 to Euro 6 and many of these companies are only able to provide this for a few different makes and models of vehicle.”
They are 3.5tonne caged tipper vehicles, which are used for emptying litter bins in the city and in parks.