Parking fines - the good, the bad and the ugly

Money Box

BBC

Business

4.2 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Private parking firms are issuing penalties to drivers at the rate of one every five seconds. That's a 20% increase compared to last year.

Council income from parking penalties has never been higher.

So why this increase?

Every motorist has a parking ticket story. So what's yours?

Email us moneybox@bbc.co.uk or call us from 1300 on 23rd January: 03 700 100 444, geographic charges from landlines and mobiles apply.

Presenter: Louise Cooper Producer: Alex Lewis and Linda Walker Editor: John Murphy

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:08.0	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?
0:21.3	When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?
0:25.1	I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.
0:28.5	Steakknife.
0:29.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.5	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:38.7	Good afternoon.
0:44.6	If there's one thing that tends to wind many people up, it's parking tickets.
0:52.5	Latest data shows local authorities in England issued 4.5 million parking penalty notices in just a year.
0:56.8	And the RAC estimate that private car park operators issued even more around 6 million. And that's a total of about 10 million parking tickets
1:03.6	in just 12 months. And it's a money-making business. Local authorities raised around
1:09.5	370 million pounds last year from issuing parking
1:13.6	fines and the RAC estimate that private parking operators could rake in almost as much again.
1:20.7	Almost every motorist has a parking ticket story. So what is yours? And we'll be guiding you
1:27.1	through what to do if you want to
1:29.5	appeal. So please call 0300-100-444 geographic charges from landlines and mobile supply or email
1:39.1	moneybox at bbc.com.com. And we understand that our phone lines are extremely busy, so please bear with us.
1:46.7	We will try to respond to as many of you as we can.
1:51.7	But before we meet our panel, let's hear from some drivers in Manchester.
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