As part of plans to tackle illegal levels of air pollution, there are plans to create a Clean Air Zone in Leeds City Centre and parts of north Leeds, wherein drivers will be charged a daily fee for driving "older models of buses, taxis and HGVs" in these areas. The clean air zone was originally proposed in 2018 after government ordered the council to come up with ways to lower the air pollution in the city, which causes around 29,000 premature deaths in the UK. This was intended to begin in January 2020, but was delayed until summer 2020 and then September 2020 owing to delays in the availability of a government vehicle registration tool. This was further delayed by the Coronavirus pandemic until "at least" 2021, before being cancelled altogether in October 2020 due to improvements in the city's air quality.