Lockdown Locks Out Council Revenues

Thu 10th Sep 2020

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