The council raised nearly £150,000 last month from parking fines.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that Oxfordshire County Council raised £147,907 from parking fines in March.

In total, 5,765 penalty charge notices were dished out to motorists last month.

READ MORE: Parking fines raked in nearly £7K a day for Oxfordshire County Council

These new figures will come as no surprise, after a Freedom of Information request recently revealed the council was raking in £6,862 a day in the first half of 2022.

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Penalty charge notices are issued when drivers break parking regulations, such as by parking on double yellow lines or on a single yellow line at a prohibited time.

However, the council still has to pay a substantial amount on parking wardens, as they paid £203,322 to the parking contractors company Conduent last month.

The council’s parking wardens are employed by Conduent and they are paid by the council for the delivery of the whole service.

READ MORE: Cars drive away as parking fines are issued in Oxford

Recently, Oxfordshire County Council also revealed that motorists sometimes choose to drive away when they are in the process of being fined.

In the past, cars have regularly been seen parking illegally outside of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on Marston Road during morning prayers.

A county council spokesman has said their enforcement officers have made “more than 150 visits to Marston Road so far this year” and 14 penalty charge notices have been issued.

The spokesman also said that “a further 28 vehicles drove away while a PCN was in the process of being issued”.

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