Council picks up £414,000 in parking fines
Doncaster Today
COUNCIL coffers have been swelled by more than £400,000 since the authority took control of parking offences eleven months ago.
Parking wardens have issued 22,057 fines - more than 2,000 a month - which have cost drivers £414,202, new figures show.
Most drivers are likely to be caught out in the Frenchgate car park, where 1,809 penalty tickets have been issued.
Priory Place is the street where most tickets have been handed out with 815 drivers fined.
Most of the cash collected by the council is used to enforce parking laws, improve street signs and repair roads, part of a a wider policy of trying to ensure the free-flow of traffic through the town and creating a safer environment.
Other ticket hot-spots are markets (1,435 fines), Waterdale Central (1,035), Printing Office Stret (752), Scot Lane (738), Waterdale Surface (706), Hall Gate (693), Market Place (651) and Armthorpe Road (575).
Mayor Martin Winter said: "Doncaster Council takes a hard line on any cars parked illegally and the level of tickets we have issued supports this.
"This enforcement action is about creating a safer, more accessible town centre for everyone and money raised from fines is directed back into the service to be spent on further enforcement as well as road signs and lines and improving roads."
Fines have risen ten-fold since the 21 parking wardens took to the streets, taking over from traffic wardens managed by the police.
The new system has been dogged by complaints of over-zealous wardens.
Doncaster Council has consistently denied that wardens were issuing tickets according to set targets.
Last week the Government announced that it was extending the powers of councils to deal with parking problems, as well as tightening up the law on wheel-clamping.
COUNCIL coffers have been swelled by more than £400,000 since the authority took control of parking offences eleven months ago.
Parking wardens have issued 22,057 fines - more than 2,000 a month - which have cost drivers £414,202, new figures show.
Most drivers are likely to be caught out in the Frenchgate car park, where 1,809 penalty tickets have been issued.
Priory Place is the street where most tickets have been handed out with 815 drivers fined.
Most of the cash collected by the council is used to enforce parking laws, improve street signs and repair roads, part of a a wider policy of trying to ensure the free-flow of traffic through the town and creating a safer environment.
Other ticket hot-spots are markets (1,435 fines), Waterdale Central (1,035), Printing Office Stret (752), Scot Lane (738), Waterdale Surface (706), Hall Gate (693), Market Place (651) and Armthorpe Road (575).
Mayor Martin Winter said: "Doncaster Council takes a hard line on any cars parked illegally and the level of tickets we have issued supports this.
"This enforcement action is about creating a safer, more accessible town centre for everyone and money raised from fines is directed back into the service to be spent on further enforcement as well as road signs and lines and improving roads."
Fines have risen ten-fold since the 21 parking wardens took to the streets, taking over from traffic wardens managed by the police.
The new system has been dogged by complaints of over-zealous wardens.
Doncaster Council has consistently denied that wardens were issuing tickets according to set targets.
Last week the Government announced that it was extending the powers of councils to deal with parking problems, as well as tightening up the law on wheel-clamping.
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