A lack of cars travelling around major cities has cost UK councils more than £40 million in parking fine revenues new figures have revealed.

By comparing year-on-year income from some of the country’s largest city councils research has found that revenue is down by 70.8 per cent.

London, the UK’s biggest city, made £46.6m between April and June in 2019, but that figure dropped to just £14.8m at the height of the pandemic. Outside of the capital, 18 of the biggest cities in the UK made £10.1 million from fines, but brought in a paltry £1.7m this year.

Will Craig, founder of LeaseFetcher, who published the research said: “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.”

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

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