City councils in the UK lost more than £40 million in revenue from parking fines during lockdown, new figures reveal.
Between April and June 2020, 19 of the largest UK cities - including London - made £16.6 million from parking fines, compared with £55.7 million in the same period last year. This represents a drop of 70.8 percent - just over £40 million.
Outside London, 18 cities brought in £10.1 million from parking penalty charge notices (PCNs) between April and June 2019. In the same period in 2020, this fell by 80.9 percent to £1.7 million.
Between April and June 2019, the 23 London Boroughs generated £46.6 million from parking PCNs - this fell 68.1 percent (£31.8 million) to £14.8 million in 2020, according to the data, which came from a series of Freedom of Information requests issued by car leasing service LeaseFetcher.
|
City |
Lost PCN income (£) | Lost PCN income (%) |
| Glasgow | £1,209,791.71 | 88.9 percent |
| Brighton and Hove | £1,044,644.06 | 70.9 percent |
| Leeds | £937,964.27 | 95.1 percent |
| Birmingham | £889,516.81 | 68.1 percent |
| Bristol | £703,163.63 | 82.8 percent |
| Leicester | £553,890.00 | 99.2 percent |
| Cardiff | £512,738.00 | 98.6 percent |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | £488,882.45 | 77.6 percent |
| Sheffield | £423,519.87 | 93 percent |
| Bradford | £349,394.77 | 79 percent |
| Coventry | £306,277.36 | 94.3 percent |
| Plymouth | £287,120.64 | 76.8 percent |
| Milton Keynes | £182,108.59 | 79.2 percent |
| Wakefield | £144,576.44 | 85.7 percent |
| Walsall | £105,765.66 | 70 percent |
| Dudley | £94,752.62 | 88.1 percent |
| Doncaster | £83,289.61 | 87.9 percent |
| Rotherham | £65,151.00 | 78.4 percent |
Will Craig, founder of LeaseFetcher, commented: “Nobody likes a parking ticket, and if anything good has come of lockdown, it’s that motorists have saved a staggering amount of cash on PCNs.
“It’s not so good for the councils, but they are already starting to claw their way back up to pre-lockdown income levels now that restrictions have eased.”
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