[Kizzy]

It's how councils make their money now fines, as funding has been withhdrawn from central govt they have to find nore innovative ways of generating income and fines are the easiest.
If you're on a low income one fine can really dent your income, 2 and you begin the debt spiral.
Fines are not always priority over food, energy, rent, council tax, and petrol.

'The surplus produced from council parking operations in England rose by 10 percent over the past year, according to a new study.

Some £819 million was generated from the on and off-street parking activities of the 353 local authorities in England during the 2016/17 financial year, research found.

The figure was calculated by taking income from parking charges and penalty notices and then deducting running costs.'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a8077541.html