Britain’s biggest private parking firms rake in £537 million every year, with motorists being issued a ticket every two seconds.
Government data revealed 16.9 million fines were dished out in the last year to the end of March – an increase of 96.5 per cent since 2021/22.
Each ticket can be up to £100, meaning the total cost to drivers may be more than £4.6 million per day at the current rate.
The parking industry has attributed the rise to an increase in the number of car parks being managed.
Andy Burnham announced a raft of new measures today to ‘put a stop’ to
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