Telford & Wrekin Council made a profit of £52,000 from parking charges during the last financial year – which it says was invested back into the borough.
However, the authority made a fraction of the £2.3million Shropshire Council made in profit from parking charges.
They said: “Telford and Wrekin Council took on responsibility for parking enforcement in 2001 and adopted an education first approach to poor and inconsiderate parking by engaging, educating and where applicable issue parking tickets.“The cost to fund this team has been supported by a contribution of £200,000 from the West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner which ends this financial year.
“The income from parking is reinvested back into the neighbourhood enforcement model, which includes maintaining many free borough town car parks to support footfall across all our local high streets.”
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