Freedom of information response

Parking tickets

Publication date: 
Tuesday 30 May 2023
Request: 

Please answer Question 1-7 in relation to the 2022 calendar year.

1.       How many parking tickets were issued to the vehicle that infringed parking regulations in the borough on the most occasions?

2.       What was the penalty value of these tickets?

3.       In what street or car park were the majority of them collected?

4.       How many of them have been paid?

5.       What was the make and model of the vehicle?

6.       If was a foreign-registered vehicle please state what was the nationality of its registration.

7.       Did you manage to impound the vehicle?

8.       What is the biggest value of unpaid Penalty Charge Notices issued to one single ‘persistent evader’ vehicle that has built up over a period of time going back where the first unpaid tickets was before 1.1.22? Please state (i) the value of these unpaid tickets, (ii) the date of the first and last unpaid tickets, (iii) the number of these unpaid tickets, (iv) the make and model of the vehicle, (v) have you seized the vehicle or taken any other action to reduce the unpaid balance?

Response: 
  1. How many parking tickets were issued to the vehicle that infringed parking regulations in the borough on the most occasions?  

99

  1. What was the penalty value of these tickets?  

     £8469

  1. In what street or car park were the majority of them collected?  

     Argent Street

  1. How many of them have been paid?  

     0

  1. What was the make and model of the vehicle?  

     Nissan Note

  1. If was a foreign-registered vehicle please state what was the nationality of its registration.

     NA

  1. Did you manage to impound the vehicle?

     No, we do not carry out vehicle removals.

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Request reference:
FOI 12747