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Mapped: The streets in Greater Manchester where you are most likely to get a parking ticket



    Oct 15, 2014 14:55
    By Dan Thompson


Our interactive map has identified the streets where the most parking fines were issued last year.

Today the M.E.N. can reveal the streets in Greater Manchester where you are most likely to get a parking ticket.

Town halls across the region have raked in a staggering total of £41m through parking penalty charges in the last five years.

They have handed out a total of 1.5m tickets to motorists across Greater Manchester in that time.

Last year, 313,138 tickets were issued in the region – the equivalent of 857 every day, or 35 an hour.

The street with the highest number of parking fines issued was Liverpool Road, off Deansgate in Manchester, with 2,465 – an average of seven a day.

King Street, in Manchester city centre, was second, while St John Street and Lloyd Street, both off Deansgate, were third and fourth respectively. Thomas Street, in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, was fifth.

In Salford, the most ticketed street in 2013/14 was New Bailey Street, the home of Salford Central station, with 1,015 fines issued.

In Oldham, it was Union Street, with 1,379. In Bolton, it was Knowsley Street, with 1,402 tickets. Wigan’s most ticketed street was Library Street, with 1,516, and Trafford’s was Ashley Road, in Hale, with 989.

In Tameside, it was Old Street, in Ashton, with 850 tickets issued last year and, in Rochdale, it was Yorkshire Street in the town centre, with 623.

Bury and Stockport councils could not provide complete data.

Figures, obtained by the M.E.N. using Freedom of Information laws, reveal that Manchester council has raked in more than £14m in parking fines since 2010.

The town hall’s annual income from penalty notices has soared by £500,000 since rules were changed in September 2011 so that motorists have to pay for on-street parking on Sundays and until 8pm in the evenings.

In 2010/11, it received £3.3m from parking fines – rising by 16pc to £3.8m in the last financial year.

A House of Commons transport select committee report published last year found ‘a deep-rooted perception that local authorities view parking enforcement as a cash cow.’

In response to the report, the government announced earlier this year that it was considering plans to abolish the minimum rates for penalty charges, allowing councils to impose lower fines, and to introduce a statutory grace period of five minutes.

Coun Paul Andrews, Manchester council’s executive member for adult health and wellbeing, said: “Far from lazy notions about a ‘cash cow’, all our parking revenue is put into a special ring-fenced fund which is spent on environmental and transport improvements in the city, such as the free Metro Shuttle bus service which links train and bus services with city centre shops and is one of the most successful schemes of its kind in the country.

“Changes to our hours of operation were introduced in 2011 as the number of motorists visiting the city centre, and the times in which they were coming in, had radically altered in previous years.” The figures show that nine out of the 10 Greater Manchester councils made a total of £8.8m from parking fines last year. Stockport failed to provide complete data.

The total annual parking fine income for the region’s town halls has remained steady over the last three years – just under £9m.


http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/mapped-streets-greater-manchester-you-7940998


 


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