Motability Lease Car Exempt from Birmingham Clean Air Zone

If your car is leased through the Motability scheme, it is exempt from the Birmingham Clean Air Zone charge for the whole of your lease period. Charges issued to Motability vehicles are a common mistake by the council.

Legal basis

Greater Birmingham CAZ Order; Birmingham CAZ Motability Exemption

How to identify this in your case

Vehicle is on a Motability lease (Motability finance agreement, Motability registration on V5C section).

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: Birmingham CAZ Team Re: CAZ PCN [PCN_NUMBER] This vehicle is leased through Motability — agreement [REF]. Under the Greater Birmingham CAZ Order, Motability vehicles are exempt for the duration of the lease. Please cancel. Yours faithfully, [Lease Holder Name] Enclosed: Motability lease confirmation

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Sources

Greater Birmingham CAZ Order
Birmingham CAZ Motability Exemption
Birmingham City Council — Clean Air Zone, including the exemptions and financial support the council operates:
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20076/clean_air_zone