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18.01.2024 - 17:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester City Council made more than £7 MILLION by slapping drivers with parking fines across the city last year.
Around England, councils brought in a staggering £1.9 billion in parking charges, according to Government figures.
Just under a third of that amount, £589.09 million, came from on-street penalty charge notices (PCNs). PCNs are given out to drivers for a range of reasons, including parking offences, straying into bus lanes or stopping in a yellow box junction.
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Town halls in Greater Manchester are among those making a sizable income from on-street penalty charges with Manchester raking in £7.3 million. Bury and Bolton council also cashed in more than a million, while Wigan and Salford made no income at all, according to the figures.
The data, released by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, shows incomes from on-street penalty charges around the region last year. This is how it looks:
Responding to the data, Bolton Council made it clear any profit made from PCNs is ringfenced for traffic expenditure.
A spokesperson said: “The £1,133,000 figure quoted is income generated from on street Penalty Charge Notices in 2022/23.
“It is not profit as expenditure must be taken into account. Any additional income that is achieved from issuing Penalty Charge Notices is reinvested into highways maintenance."
Similarly a spokesperson from Bury Council said: "The £1,170,000 income figure quoted for Penalty Charge Notices for 22/23 does not include any expenditure for
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