Clean Air Zone Compelling Reasons Cancellation Request

For a Clean Air Zone penalty outside London where you have no clear statutory ground, or a thin one, but something genuinely unusual about your circumstances. This is not a plea for sympathy. Regulation 9(1) of the 2013 Regulations requires the authority to cancel, and to refund, where it accepts that there are compelling reasons why in the particular circumstances the penalty should be cancelled. That is a statutory test and a duty, not a favour, and there is no equivalent in London. The letter frames the circumstances against that test, keeps it in the alternative where you also have a ground, and explains that the identical test is available again from an independent adjudicator under regulation 11(9) if the authority refuses.

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FOR A CLEAN AIR ZONE PENALTY OUTSIDE LONDON: Birmingham, Bristol, Bath, Sheffield, Bradford, Tyneside, Portsmouth and other charging zones made under the Transport Act 2000.

DO NOT USE FOR A LONDON ULEZ OR CONGESTION CHARGE PENALTY. Different Act, different Regulations, and the statutory test this letter relies on does not exist there.

THIS LETTER IS NOT PLEADING ONE OF THE SEVEN GROUNDS. It asks the authority to apply a separate test that sits alongside them: that there are compelling reasons why, in the particular circumstances of your case, the penalty should be cancelled.

That is a real test written into the Regulations, not a plea for sympathy. If the authority accepts there are compelling reasons, it MUST cancel, and it must refund anything you have paid.

USE IT WHEN: you have no clear statutory ground, or you have one but it is evidentially thin, and there is something genuinely unusual about your circumstances.

YOU CAN USE IT ALONGSIDE A GROUND. If you have a ground, plead the ground first and put this second, clearly marked as an alternative. Never lead with this, because leading with it tells the reader you do not believe your own ground.

DEADLINE: get it in within 28 days of service of the Penalty Charge Notice.

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