Car park fines of £250,000 in three years in Great Yarmouth

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed that £240,690 in penalty charge notices were issued to drivers caught flouting parking rules in all council-owned car parks between April 2020 and June 2023.

Penalty charge notices are given by civil enforcement officers to drivers who ignore restrictions, such as by parking on yellow lines, not buying pay and display tickets or staying too long in time-limited spaces.

The near-quarter of a million pounds in fines was issued from across all 24 car parks owned by Great Yarmouth Borough Council, stretching from Gorleston's Marine Parade to Beach Road in Caister.

This comes after it was revealed in June that almost £1.2m in fines were issued to drivers who were caught disregarding parking restrictions across Norfolk in the past year.

Council bosses said the money generated goes back into the Norfolk Parking Partnership - a collaboration between Norfolk's councils - and is used to cover the spending on enforcement, maintenance and back office costs.

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Jetty South car park, Great Yarmouth. Picture - Newsquest (Image: Newsquest)

The FOI also revealed that the mean average car parking fine in the borough between 2020 and 2023 was £70.

Between April 2020 and March 2021, fines worth a total of £46,830 were issued. Euston Road car park saw 121 PCNs issued, bringing in a combined £6,370.

The following year, the majority of fines were issued at the car park at Beach Road, Caister, with 139 drivers being slapped with a combined £6,990. The total for April 2021 to March 2022, was £59,340.

Between April 2022 to March 2023, drivers were issued a combined total of £97,250 in fines. Most PCNs were issued at Howard Street car park, which saw 278 drivers fined, worth a combined £14,340.

Between April and June this year, already £37,270 worth of parking fines have been issued across council-owned car parks. One hundred and three PCNs have been issued at the King Street car park, which saw drivers fined a total of £5,170.

Almost £40,000 in fines have been issued since April already. Picture - Newsquest (Image: Newsquest)