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OFVACANCIES
PARKWISE
THE FACTS
●Parkwise is a partnership between the Start Page 31 and go
county council and 12 district councils
which enforces both on and off-street online at lep.co.uk
parking spaces.

DISGRACE
●Latest figures show £7.77 is being lost
on each issued penalty charge notice
(PCN) issued by Parkwise. The average
cost per PCN is £36.75 compared to an
income of £28.88. The worst area was
South Ribble where £40.59 was lost on a
ticket and £31.87 lost in Chorley.
●From April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008,
only 73% of PCNs were paid out of the

WASTES
111,608 generated. Of those, 16%
(18,092) were cancelled for reasons
including secretarial errors (1,401), policy
errors (8,135) and mitigating
circumstances (6,080). A total of 5% of
PCNs are outstanding (4,987), 5% are with
bailiffs (4,987) and 1% (1,163) were
written off.
●Between April 1 and May 23 this year,

OUR CASH
1,954 tickets were cancelled out of
14,777 generated (13%).
●Based on recent accounts, Parkwise
would have to reduce costs by £524,015 to
break even with Chorley having to shed the
most (£129,930).
●At March 31, Parkwise’s accumulated
deficit was £647,000 with this set to rise
to £921,000 by September 2009. But it
is now feared this will increase by a
further £200,000.
●But Parkwise won an award for Back
Office Team of the Year 2008 at this year’s
LANCASHIRE’S contro- by Chris Visser wise once its contract with NCP,
whose staff issue the tickets, expires in
British Parking Awards while its back office versial Parkwise scheme chris.visser@lep.co.uk September 2009.
received a Charter Mark standard. The looks set to stay, despite al- The Evening Post can also reveal
report says this has “helped to raise staff most £8 being lost on every but with “targeted financial budg- that the county-wide scheme is mak-
morale”. ets.” ing a £7.87 loss on every issued ticket
ticket issued. That is despite the scheme being with areas like South Ribble making
●Preston’s Third World set to record a deficit of £921,000 by staggering losses of £40.39 on every
transport system County Hall looks to have per- next year – and this could rise by an- penalty notice. Out of 12 district coun-
See tomorrow’s LEP formed a dramatic U-turn by sug- other £200,000. cils, only Hyndburn is not making a
gesting the current parking en- Earlier this year it was revealed the loss on parking tickets.
for a special report forcement system could continue county council was set to axe Park- ● Turn to Page 5

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