Promise to spend millions from parking fines on roads

PLEDGE AFTER £16.8M COLLECTED IN JUST SIX MONTHS

- By ETHAN DAVIES

MANCHESTER council has made a promise to motorists after a new report revealed how much parking fines earned last year.

The authority collected £23.7m in fines last year, and earned another £16.8m from the start of this financial year to the end of September.] A new report said 600,153 parking penalties were issued by council officers last year, or more than one every minute.

Last year’s revenue was used to pay for enforcing parking rules, with the £8.4m surplus paid into a reserve, the report added.

And Coun Richard Kilpatrick, who represents West Didsbury, said the ‘not insignificant’ £16.8m takings so far this year should be reinvested into the city’s roads.