THE PARKING TICKET HOTSPOTS IN CITY
CITY’S MOST EFFICIENT OFFICER HAS HANDED OUT £10,000 IN FINES IN EACH OF PAST 18 MONTHS
A SINGLE parking enforcement officer in Leicester handed out an average of £10,000 in fines every month over a year-and-a-half.
Leicester City Council has said its most prolific individual traffic warden dished out more than £180,000 in penalty charges between the start of April last year and the end of September.
The figures have been revealed in a Freedom of Information disclosure, though the identity of the busy officer has not been revealed.
The council has also revealed the hit its income has taken as a result of having suspended parking enforcement during months of lockdown.
An average of 5,904 penalty charge notices were issued across the city each month between April 2018 and the end of March, when the first national lockdown was put in place.
That average dropped to just 1,239 tickets a month from April this year to the end of September.
That left the council with just £71,800 a month in income form parking tickets, compared to more
THE council has also revealed the city streets where the most fines have been issued. The three columns are the street, the number of fixed penalty notices handed out and the approximate revenue generated. than £250,000 a month before the pandemic began.
A city council spokesman said: “The number of fines issued was considerably lower this year compared with the previous year due to the effects of the first coronavirus lockdown, during which there were far fewer vehicles on the city’s roads and parking enforcement was largely relaxed in line with national guidance.
“Instead officers focused on dealing only with parked vehicles which were causing a danger to other road users, causing obstructions or other safety issues.”
He added: “The number of fines issued by our officers depends very much on factors such as the area of the city in which they are working, how many people are in the patrol team and the time of day they are patrolling, as well as any large-scale events such as football matches which can lead to an increase the number of motorists who are fined for parking in residents-only parking zones.”
The city council says its wardens are not set targets to issue tickets and money raised from parking enforcement goes back into funding highway works across the city.