Drivers urged to apply for discount ahead of new charge - see if you are eligible

Certain drivers volition beryllium eligible for discounts connected the caller passageway charges (Image: Getty)

Those utilizing the Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels volition look charges from April 7, yet definite drivers volition beryllium eligible for discounts.

The interest volition use betwixt 06:00 and 22:00, 7 days a week, with the purpose of managing postulation levels crossed the tunnels, repaying costs for gathering the caller Silvertown Tunnel, and screen ongoing attraction and cognition costs astatine some tunnels.

However, low-income residents successful 12 eastbound London boroughs and the City of London, and connected definite benefits, are eligible for a 50% discount connected passageway crossing charges by pre-registering with TfL.

To suffice for the 50% residents' discount for Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels charge, you indispensable unrecorded wrong the East London low-income residents' discount zone.

Charges volition use to those utilizing the Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels (Image: Getty)

The boroughs:

• Barking & Dagenham
• Bexley
• Bromley
• Greenwich
• Hackney
• Havering
• Lewisham
• Newham
• Redbridge
• Southwark
• Tower Hamlets
• Waltham Forest
• The City of London

Drivers connected the definite benefits volition besides beryllium eligible for a 50% discount.

The benefits:

• Income support
• Income-related Employment & Support Allowance
• Income-based Jobseekers Allowance
• Universal Credit
• Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit
• Working Tax Credit
• Carer's Allowance
• Housing Benefit

The East London low-income residents' discount would past for a play of astatine slightest 3 years from April 7.

Other discounts are disposable for tiny businesses, sole traders and charities registered and operating from Greenwich, Newham oregon Tower Hamlets. This stands astatine a £1 discount connected the off-peak complaint connected a maximum of 3 vehicles.

The complaint volition besides not use for vehicles:

• With a disabled taxation class
• Taxis licensed by TfL
• Zero-emission susceptible and wheelchair-accessible backstage prosecute vehicles licensed by TfL erstwhile carrying retired a booking
• DVLA-registered minibuses, buses and coaches
  

The charges

An off-peak complaint of £1.50 volition use the bulk of the clip for motorcycles, cars and tiny vans registered for TfL Auto Pay. 

Peak charges volition beryllium £2.50 for motorcycles and £4 for cars and tiny vans. These volition use for 4 hours northbound successful the greeting (from 06:00 to 10:00) and 3 hours southbound successful the evening (from 16:00 to 19:00).

Large vans volition wage an off-peak complaint of £2.50 if registered with TfL Auto Pay, oregon £6.50 during highest hours, and HGVs volition wage an off-peak complaint of £5.00 if registered with TfL Auto Pay, oregon £10 during highest hours.