Over 15,000 parking tickets have been issued in Lincolnshire between July and December 2017. 

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Lincoln had just over 5,000 Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) in the six months, accounting for a third of tickets issued across the county. 

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Almost £500,000 was collected from the fines.

 

Lincolnshire County Council said the money is being used to meet the costs of running the service. 

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5.7 percent of the 15,212 tickets that were issued in the county were successfully revoked. 

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Figures also revealed that an average of one in three PCNs challenged were revoked in the city.

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Fleur Cornthwaite-Smith, a student at the University of Lincoln, was fined £25 for parking 10 metres outside of her designated zone on a street where she rents a house. 

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She bought a residents parking permit for £50 to avoid any fines. "The rules were really not clear. I was not aware that my road was split into two different zones. 

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"I definitely won't be making the same mistake again."

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