Drivers fined £120k for parking illegally outside hospital
Manchester Evening News|March 10, 2023
Council officers issued 5,111 fines between the start of 2018 and the end of 2022.
GEORGE LYTHGOE
Drivers fined £120k for parking illegally outside hospital

A TOWN hall has raked in more than £120,000 in the last five years from ticketing people parked illegally outside the town's largest hospital.

Wigan council has collected £122,891 from tickets issued on roads outside the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, according to a Freedom of Information request (FOI).

In 2022 alone, the council issued £36,968 worth of fines. The data covers parking on Wigan Lane, Bellingham Drive, Clifton Crescent, Bellingham Mount, and Kingsmede.

In the last year, parking permits have been slowly re-introduced for NHS workers at trusts across the country, following the pausing of charges during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

This story is from the March 10, 2023 edition of Manchester Evening News.

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