Apply for a traffic filter permit
The list of permit types, terms and conditions, how to apply and how to prove you qualify.
Congestion charge permit holders
If you already hold a congestion charge permit, you do not need to apply for a traffic filter permit. Your permit will be transferred automatically to a traffic filter permit when the trial begins.
The permit’s start date will revert to the traffic filters trial start date. Day pass allocations will automatically re-set to 100 for Oxford residents and 25 for Oxfordshire residents.
If your temporary congestion charge resident’s permit has any unused day passes when the traffic filter trial starts, they will not be carried over to the new scheme
We will contact all permit holders about how their permits are being handled. We will begin these communications after the traffic filters' start date has been confirmed.
Central permit area permit holders
The central permit area we created for the temporary congestion charge will not exist in the traffic filters scheme.
We will transfer central permit area resident permits to Oxford permit area resident permits. That gives you 100-day passes per permit.
We will not transfer the other expiring central permit area permits when the traffic filters trial begins. These are:
- central permit area resident (visitor permit)
- central permit area workplace parking users
- central permit area sports clubs, nurseries, or military training
You may be eligible for a traffic filter permit, depending on your circumstances. Visit the About the traffic filters page for details.
Traffic filter permits are 'virtual'. You will not receive a physical permit to display in your car. The traffic filter cameras will read your number plate and check for a linked permit.
Permits
Select the permit you want to apply for from the list below.
- Oxford permit area resident
- Oxfordshire permit area resident
- Blue Badge holders
- Organisational Blue Badge holder
- Disabled tax class vehicle
- Personal car used by community health or care worker
- Organisational shared cars (pool cars)
- School car used for home-to-school transport
- Unpaid carer
- Frequent hospital patient
- Disability benefit claimant
- School student with special educational needs (SEND)
- Firefighters
- Hackney carriage or private hire vehicle
- Car clubs
- Business car used as a goods vehicle
- Personal car used as a goods vehicle
- Approved driving instructor
- Car being used for a driving test at Oxford Driving Test Centre
- Hearse or funeral car