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Funding to upgrade taxis, vans, coaches and minibuses to cleaner models is set to be paused to allow for a 'fundamental review' of the Clean Air Zone.
Greater Manchester will ask the government to pause the next phase of the financial support scheme which was due to open at the end of this month.
It comes amid evidence of supply chain issues in the light goods vehicles market, increasing the price of second hand vans by up to 60 pc since 2020.
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There has also been a major public backlash against the Clean Air Zone in recent weeks – but councillors say the scheme itself will not be scrapped.
Speaking to councillors at Manchester Town Hall on Thursday (January 20), Transport for Greater Manchester boss Simon Warburton explained why the Clean Air Funds scheme must be paused to allow for a 'fundamental review'.
He said: "We face a dual challenge of the volume of vehicles that are in the market and also the prices at which they are in the market.
"Our advice now is that we are no longer confident that the funding arrangement as it stands will provide for the quantum and the sequencing of funding that is needed."
Warburton said that light goods vehicles will be the most affected by the Clean Air Zone because Greater Manchester has a 'particularly old' fleet of vans.
But during the pandemic, the number of light goods vehicles entering the market fell, with a 20 pc reduction in new vans compared to the year before.
And although the number of new light goods vehicles registered in 2021 has rise back to 2019 levels, there are now fewer vans in the second hand market.
For this reason, the cost of upgrading light goods vehicles has risen and the financial
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