London Figures

  • There are approximately 1,600 Parking Attendants in London.
  • London councils' total parking ticket revenue in 2002/2003 - £297,361,427
  • Number of Parking Tickets issued in 2005/2006 = 5,075,478
  • Number of Bus Lane Tickets issued in 2005/2006 = 697,816
  • Number of parking tickets appealed in 2004/2005 = 54,626 - only 1% of total tickets issued
  • Number of bus lane tickets appealed in 2004/2005 = 3,602 - only 0.4% of tickets were appealed
  • Source: www.londoncouncils.gov.uk

Appeal success rates: The average success rate for appeals is 67%. Since we started appealing, we have managed to cancel 80% of all tickets that we have appealed against.

UK Figures

Statistics from the RAC state that 7.1m penalty charge notices for illegal parking were handed out in 2003, which equates to more than 19,000 a day

UK Statistics
City (outside of London) Tickets Issued
Source: RAC
Edinburgh 241,425 valid tickets in 2005
225,918 in 2006
Brighton and Hove 161,194
Birmingham 147,994
Manchester 123,584
Liverpool 114,466
Nottingham 91,816
Reading 61,639
Oxfordshire 60,399
Milton Keynes 56,156
Medway 52,739
Luton 45,928
Parking Tickets already raise nearly £1bn a year