The UK Department of Transport has released Civil Parking Enforcement Statistics for 2009-2010 in a new report and some of the findings are noteworthy. It seems that challenging a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) – the UK parking ticket – often pays off for the motorist.
The report states, “The number of PCNs challenged in 2009/10 was 1.84 million (on-street) and 0.50 million (off-street).”
“As a result of these challenges, 0.86 million on-street PCNs were cancelled in 2009/10 … and 0.30 million off-street PCNs were cancelled …”
This means that almost half of the on-street PCNs and more than half of the off-street offences were cancelled!
These stats may support the accusations regularly raised in the UK media about questionable parking enforcement practices, addressed in a recent Parking World article by our UK parking expert Peter Guest.
AA president Edmund King is quoted in the Mirror saying, “While we welcome the fact that almost half of the drivers who appealed against unfair parking tickets won their cases, we must question why so many of these drivers were given tickets in the first place."
Read the UK Department of Transport report here.
Pete Goldin
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