Parking accounts 2025 to 2026

A section 55 Parking Account must be produced each year end and must include:

  • income from on-street parking charges and on-street parking fines and off street fines
  • expenditure on the provision and maintenance of designated parking places and enforcement.

These finances are governed by section 55 (as amended) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

For details of on-street parking please view Lancashire county council parking.

Section 55 Parking Account 2025/26
  £
Income   
Off Street Parking Fines (PCN's) (16,838)
   
Total Income (16,838)
   
Expenditure  
Enforcement and enforcement materials 32,628
Processing 9,672
Support Services 6,357
   
Total Expenditure 48,658
   
(Surplus) / Deficit 31,820

Additional Information

The number of street pay and display parking spaces provided by the council is detailed below:

Parking charges | South Ribble

The Local Government Transparency Code requires that all local councils must publish their parking account information showing revenue collected from on-street parking, off-street parking and penalty charge notices and associated expenditure. 

For details of on-street parking please view Lancashire county council parking.

Income and expenditure: Parking account
Parking account 2025/26
   
Income  
Off-Street Parking Permits (26,460)
Off-Street Parking Fees (94,637)
Off Street Parking Fines (PCNs) (16,838)
   
Total Income (137,934)
Expenditure  
Direct salary costs 10,177
Premises 101,669
Supplies and Services 49,909
Support Services 19,265
Total Expenditure 181,020
(Surplus) / Deficit

43,086

Section 55 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act (1984) allows for a number of areas which car parking income can fund. This includes, but is not limited to, public passenger transport services, highways, road and environmental improvements including works to open spaces and the provision of outdoor recreational facilities.

The following expenditure was incurred in 2025/26.

  £
Environmental Improvements 147,507
Highways and Roads 128,803
Open Land and Water 0
Outdoor Recreational Facilities 499,413
Public Passenger Transport 0
Cark Parks 106,875
Total 882,598