Parking accounts 2024 to 2025

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 2024/25
  £
Income   
Off Street Parking Fines (PCN's) (24,183)
   
Total Income (24,183)
   
Expenditure  
Enforcement and enforcement materials 31,869
Processing 9,820
Support Services 7,711
   
Total Expenditure 49,400
   
(Surplus) / Deficit 25,217

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 2024/25
   
Income  
Off-Street Parking Permits (31,338)
Off-Street Parking Fees (88,097)
Off Street Parking Fines (PCNs) (24,183)
   
Total Income (143,618)
Expenditure  
Direct salary costs 7,199
Premises 83,689
Supplies and Services 47,487
Support Services 23,134
Total Expenditure 161,509
(Surplus) / Deficit

17,891

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 2024/25.

  £
Environmental Improvements 16,580
Highways and Roads 839,086
Open Land and Water 294,854
Outdoor Recreational Facilities 445,295
Public Passenger Transport 0
Cark Parks 0
Total 1,595,815