APPEALING AND FIGHTING PARKING
AND BUS LANE TICKETS IN THE UK
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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

City (outside of London) Tickets Issued

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