Jon Cruddas MP steps in to ask Mayor’s office to give urgent consideration to extending ULEZ exemptions for patients, staff and volunteers at hospice.

The Dagenham and Rainham MP Jon Cruddas has stepped in to ask the Deputy Mayor for Transport Seb Dance, to give exemptions to the ULEZ expansion to patients, staff and volunteers at St Francis Hospice.

The expansion of the ULEZ due to start next week, means that patients and volunteers at the Havering-atte-Bower hospice will now be faced with paying £12.50 a day to access the facilities there.

St Francis Hospice does a truly incredible job in our community and its work is vital and undescribably important. With the ULEZ expansion, it is feared that some patients, staff and volunteers will not be able to afford the £12.50 a day to make their vehicle ULEZ compliant.

Residents living on the area near the small green are also furious with the current placing of the ULEZ camera that is directly opposite St Francis Hospice.

Havering-atte-Bower is a very green and quiet area, that is a village in itself. It has no tube or train access and relies solely on two buses the 375 and 103. The area is 4.5 miles from Romford station and many residents living in the area, especially the elderly, rely on their vehicles to access shopping areas in Collier Row and Romford.

Mr Cruddas wrote to the Deputy Mayor stating: “We realise this is very late in the day, but we ask that urgent consideration be given to extending the ULEZ exemptions granted to staff, volunteers and patients at St Francis Hospice and indeed other hospices in Greater London.”

Mr Cruddas has openly criticised the ULEZ expansion across all outer London boroughs, fearing the impact it will have on those families already struggling with the cost of living crisis.

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