PARKING FINE PAYDAY
REVEALED: THE CITY STREETS THAT MAKE THE MOST MONEY FROM ILLEGAL PARKERS AS COUNCIL WARDENS DISH OUT TICKETS WORTH £2M A YEAR
COUNCIL parking wardens in Cardiff have dished out fines totalling almost £2m in a year.
Over the 2017-18 financial year parking attendants handed out 59,669 parking tickets, according to a Freedom of Information request.
That means in excess of 160 fines were given out on average every single day, while the data also shows the streets which made the greatest amount of revenue for the council in parking fines.
Churchill Way in the city centre yielded the greatest amount of money – more than £32,000 – and we’ve broken down the full top 30 locations below.
So, just how much did the council make?
In the 2017-18 financial year parking attendants for Cardiff council gave out 59,669 parking tickets.
Of these 4,991 tickets are currently outstanding while 14,345 people have appealed the notices – and of these nearly half (7,005) have been accepted.
The total cash made from these fines over just one year was £1,908,633.67.
That’s more than £5,000 a day. A spokesman for Cardiff council said: “The income generated from parking charges, civil parking enforcement, and the moving traffic offences scheme is publicly-available information.
“The income funds the operational cost of parking and enforcement and any surplus or deficit is transferred to a parking reserve account.
“This is then used to support public transport services, off-street parking and highway improvements in accordance with section 55 of the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984.
“The parking reserve account has helped to support a number of improvements including installing disabled bays, implementing the new 20mph areas in the city, keep- clear zones by schools and safe access to school schemes, highway improvements and bus lanes, cycling partnerships, the operation to remove off-road bikes from public land, upgrading car parks including pay and display facilities, and implementing the moving traffic offences scheme.”