Some 17 million private parking charge notices (PCNs) will be issued to drivers in the year to the end of March, the RAC says.
This is three million more parking tickets than were issued in the 2024–25 financial year, setting a new record.
The Government is set to publish the final figures next month, when it is expected that last year’s record of 14.4 million will be surpassed.
In the first nine months of the financial year, private parking companies have sent out more than 13 million PCNs. That’s an average of 4.3 million tickets a quarter, tracking far higher than last year.
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