Aberdeen LEZ: Special Vehicle Local Exemption

Aberdeen City Council has the power to grant a time-limited local exemption — lasting up to one year — for highly specialised construction or recovery vehicles. If your vehicle qualifies for this exemption, or you have already applied for one, your ticket should be cancelled.

Legal basis

LEZ (Scotland) Regulations 2021 — local exemption powers

How to identify this in your case

Specialist construction equipment, plant, recovery vehicle, or other unusually configured vehicle.

Sample appeal wording

Before you send this

Deadline. A late submission can be turned down without your argument being read. Check your notice for the deadline and how it is counted.
Paying may end it. Paying can count as accepting the notice and can close a challenge already under way. Part-paying or acknowledging an old debt can also revive a time limit that had expired.
The amount can change. Check what happens to the sum if you challenge — it may be held, re-offered lower, or keep rising, and fees or enforcement can continue meanwhile.
Use the official route. Use the method, recipient and form your notice specifies, with any reference, evidence and signature it asks for. Sent elsewhere, it may not count.
Only say what is true. Do not copy any statement of fact unless it is true for you, and check the legal point still applies. Delete what does not fit. It may be treated as your statement.
Careful what you volunteer. Avoid unnecessary admissions — naming the driver or accepting responsibility can remove arguments. But answer anything you are legally required to answer, and do include the evidence your ground needs.
Keep the record. Keep what you sent, the attachments, any receipt, and the reply. Note the next deadline.

Sample wording to adapt and send yourself — it may not fit your notice or the stage you are at. Replace the bracketed prompts with your own details; leave any case citation as it is.

To: Aberdeen City Council LEZ Penalty Charges Re: LEZ PCN [PCN_NUMBER] This vehicle is [specialised plant / recovery / construction]. I apply for a local time-limited exemption under the local exemption powers in the LEZ (Scotland) Regulations 2021. Evidence enclosed. While the application is determined, I request the PCN be held in abeyance and cancelled if the exemption is granted. Yours faithfully, [Keeper Name]

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Sources

LEZ (Scotland) Regulations 2021 — local exemptions
The Low Emission Zones (Emission Standards, Exemptions and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/177):
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/177/contents