A NetVoucherCodes data reportBritain’s parking fines, mapped
FINE LINES
We asked 200 UK councils where drivers get fined the most. This is what the country’s Penalty Charge Notices look like — road by road.
- PCNs issued 2025/26
- 14,747,361
- collected from drivers
- £537m
- most-fined roads named
- 161
Part one — the map
The most-fined road in every UK city
160 councils named the single road where they issue the most Penalty Charge Notices. Together they draw a map of where Britain's drivers pay the price.
The ten most-ticketed roads in Britain
| # | Road | Council | PCNs 25/26 | Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corporation Street | Birmingham | 100,985 | not provided |
| 2 | Irvine Street / Mount Vernon Bus Lane | Liverpool | 74,708 | £909k |
| 3 | Tottenham Court Road | Camden | 59,329 | £4.1m |
| 4 | North Worple Way Westbound of Common Boundary of No'S 51/52 Sw14 | Richmond upon Thames | 43,861 | £361k |
| 5 | Jct 30 Off Slip With Jct 31 | Thurrock | 41,817 | £115k |
| 6 | Corporation Street, Preston | Lancashire | 39,267 | £1.7m |
| 7 | Oxford Street (Whitworth Street West to Chepstow Street) Bus Lane. | Manchester | 32,695 | £1.3m |
| 8 | Arundel Gate (northeast Bound) Near St Paul’s Place Service Rd bus gate | Sheffield | 31,543 | £1.0m |
| 9 | Oldfield Lane South, Greenford | Ealing | 31,252 | £2.2m |
| 10 | High Street | Oxfordshire | 31,063 | £830k |
28 councils responded to our FOI request but didn’t hold street-level data, and 11 didn’t respond — they don’t appear on the map. Milton Keynes named a road but couldn’t provide a ticket count, so it isn't ranked.
Part two — the capital
London: a fine machine, borough by borough
29 of 33 London boroughs told us their most-fined road — the rest are marked on the map. Tottenham Court Road alone produced 59,329 PCNs in a single year — worth £4.1m to Camden.
Tottenham Court Road
Camden
59,329 PCNs · £4.1m
North Worple Way Westbound of Common Boundary of No'S 51/52 Sw14
Richmond upon Thames
43,861 PCNs · £361k
Oldfield Lane South, Greenford
Ealing
31,252 PCNs · £2.2m
Albert Bridge (North Side)
Kensington and Chelsea
30,798 PCNs · £2.3m
Station Parade (Barking)
Barking and Dagenham
28,857 PCNs · £1.8m
High Street North
Newham
27,227 PCNs · £1.1m
Full borough table
| # | Borough | Road | PCNs 25/26 | Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camden | Tottenham Court Road | 59,329 | £4.1m |
| 2 | Richmond upon Thames | North Worple Way Westbound of Common Boundary of No'S 51/52 Sw14 | 43,861 | £361k |
| 3 | Ealing | Oldfield Lane South, Greenford | 31,252 | £2.2m |
| 4 | Kensington and Chelsea | Albert Bridge (North Side) | 30,798 | £2.3m |
| 5 | Barking and Dagenham | Station Parade (Barking) | 28,857 | £1.8m |
| 6 | Newham | High Street North | 27,227 | £1.1m |
| 7 | Enfield | Bull Lane | 25,215 | £1.0m |
| 8 | Merton | Abbey Road junction with High Path. | 22,881 | £1.6m |
| 9 | Greenwich | Maze Hill SE10 / Tom Smith Close SE10 | 21,810 | £1.4m |
| 10 | Redbridge | Ilford Lane | 20,971 | £1.1m |
| 11 | Southwark | Rye Lane | 20,122 | £1.3m |
| 12 | Harrow | Camrose Avenue | 19,889 | £1.4m |
| 13 | Hackney | Lansdowne Drive (JCT Trederwen Road - Eastbound) | 18,905 | £915k |
| 14 | Barnet | Tilling Road | 16,173 | not provided |
| 15 | Lewisham | Hazelbank Road | 13,665 | £840k |
| 16 | Lambeth | Rosendale Road | 13,487 | £1.0m |
| 17 | Havering | South Street / Eastern Road | 10,186 | £692k |
| 18 | Westminster | Queensway | 9,649 | £565k |
| 19 | Waltham Forest | Cherrydown Avenue E4 Northbound (cctv) | 8,297 | £397k |
| 20 | Brent | St Johns Ave NW10 junction with Ashdon Rd NW10 | 7,963 | £400k |
| 21 | London | Cheapside | 7,473 | £725k |
| 22 | Tower Hamlets | Brick Lane (Hanbury to Quaker) | 7,447 | £734k |
| 23 | Hillingdon | Vine Street, Uxbridge | 6,789 | £419k |
| 24 | Islington | Riversdale Road (Zone H) | 4,791 | £444k |
| 25 | Wandsworth | Wimbledon Park Side Jct. Withycombe Road Sw19 | 4,124 | £303k |
| 26 | Bexley | Townley Rd, Bexleyheath | 3,924 | £1.0m |
| 27 | Haringey | Langham Road N15 (junction with Belmont Road) | 3,916 | £389k |
| 28 | Bromley | High Street Bromley (South) / Police Station (box junction) | 3,518 | £267k |
| 29 | Sutton | Camden Road, Carshalton | 2,101 | £168k |
Part three — the earners
The councils making the most from fines
Westminster banked £37,320,443 in PCN income in 2025/26 — the most of any UK council. Here are the ten biggest earners.
2025/26 figures as reported by each council; some budgets were not yet audited at time of response, and several large councils could not yet provide 2025/26 totals.
Part four — the rise
Five years of fine inflation
Same streets, same drivers — much bigger bills. Comparing 2021/22 with 2025/26, these councils grew their PCN income the fastest.
Top ten as a table
| # | Council | 2021/22 | 2025/26 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Renfrewshire | £28k | £222k | +696% |
| 2 | Medway | £1.1m | £5.2m | +372% |
| 3 | Stockport | £537k | £1.8m | +242% |
| 4 | North Lanarkshire | £233k | £729k | +213% |
| 5 | Liverpool | £2.8m | £8.4m | +197% |
| 6 | Isle of Anglesey | £51k | £149k | +194% |
| 7 | Newcastle upon Tyne | £2.3m | £6.5m | +181% |
| 8 | Trafford | £927k | £2.6m | +177% |
| 9 | Wigan | £353k | £939k | +166% |
| 10 | Argyll and Bute | £150k | £398k | +165% |
Nationally: £364m → £513m
Across the 141 councils reporting income for both years, PCN income rose +41% between 2021/22 and 2025/26. Councils cite expanded camera enforcement, new bus lanes and moving-traffic powers — all arriving in exactly this window.
Part five — the offences
What are drivers actually fined for?
Contravention-level data from 103 councils shows where the tickets come from — and it isn't all parking.
- Yellow lines & loading — waiting or loading in restricted streets21.9%
- Permit & resident bays — parking without a valid permit17.8%
- Moving traffic — box junctions, banned turns, no-entry17.4%
- Paid parking overstays — expired tickets and unpaid bays12.2%
- Bus lanes — driving in a bus lane11.2%
- Council car parks — overstays and unpaid sessions off-street6.4%
- Everything else — taxi ranks, EV bays, school zones…13.1%
Based on 23,146,338 PCNs itemised by contravention code in 103 councils’ FOI responses, spanning 2020/21 to 2025/26 (councils supplied differing periods). Categories follow the standard national contravention code list.
Part six — your street
Where is your nearest most-fined road?
Type your town, drop in a postcode, or use your location — and find out which road near you is quietly funding the council.
Methodology
NetVoucherCodes sent Freedom of Information requests to 200 UK local authorities responsible for parking enforcement, asking for: the single road on which they issued the most Penalty Charge Notices in 2025/26 (with ticket numbers and income), their total PCNs issued and total PCN income for each financial year from 2020/21 to 2025/26, and a breakdown of PCNs by contravention type.
189 councils responded; 161 named a most-fined road. Where a council marked 2025/26 figures as provisional or unaudited, we used the figures as supplied. Obvious data-entry errors were corrected and are documented in the published dataset. Percentage changes are computed from the cleaned yearly values; councils missing either end of the comparison are excluded from growth rankings.
Road geometry and the basemap are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Council boundaries are from the ONS Open Geography Portal (contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025). Place and postcode-district locations include data from GeoNames (CC-BY 4.0).
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