Slough Borough Council rakes in more than £800,000 each year from parking fines, figures acquired by the Observer have revealed.
The numbers– released under freedom of information laws – also show that the council issues more than 40,000 parking fines each year.
The council says the money is used to pay for ‘staff costs, IT and contractor costs’.
The Observer asked Slough Borough Council to disclose income from parking charges in the last three financial years, as well as how many fines had been issued in those years.
The council replied that in the most recent year, running April 2023 – April 2024, it made £844,724 and issued 41,986 fines.
It made £854,152 in the 2022-23 financial year from 44,392 fines. And in 2021-22 it made £898,138 from 44,514 fines.
The figures come after Slough Borouh Council had launched an 18-month trial of residents-only parking zones in Bayliss and Stoke.
Carlisle Road, Frank Sutton Way, Godolphin Road, Redwood Gardens, Whitby Road, Woodland Avenue, Baylis Road, Bradley Road, Carmarthen Road, Leeds Road and Oakley Crescent.
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