Data held on Parking regulations in Herefordshire
Case reference FOI2026/00595
Received 9 March 2026
Published 13 March 2026
Request
Please answer Question 1-7 in relation to the 2025 calendar year.
1. How many parking tickets were issued to the vehicle that infringed parking regulations in the borough on the most occasions?
2. What was the penalty value of these tickets?
3. In what street or car park were the majority of them collected?
4. How many of them have been paid?
5. What was the make and model of the vehicle?
6. If it was a foreign-registered vehicle please state what was the nationality of its registration.
7. Did you manage to impound the vehicle?
8. What is the biggest value of unpaid Penalty Charge Notices issued to one single ‘persistent evader’ vehicle that has built up over a period of time going back where the first unpaid tickets was before 1.1.24?
Please state (i) the value of these unpaid tickets, (ii) the date of the first and last unpaid tickets, (iii) the number of these unpaid tickets, (iv) the make and model of the vehicle, (v) have you seized the vehicle or taken any other action to reduce the unpaid balance?
Response
Please answer Question 1-7 in relation to the 2025 calendar year.
1. How many parking tickets were issued to the vehicle that infringed parking regulations in the borough on the most occasions?
2. What was the penalty value of these tickets?
3. In what street or car park were the majority of them collected?
4. How many of them have been paid?
5. What was the make and model of the vehicle?
6. If it was a foreign-registered vehicle please state what was the nationality of its registration.
7. Did you manage to impound the vehicle?
8. What is the biggest value of unpaid Penalty Charge Notices issued to one single ‘persistent evader’ vehicle that has built up over a period of time going back where the first unpaid tickets was before 1.1.24? Please state (i) the value of these unpaid tickets, (ii) the date of the first and last unpaid tickets, (iii) the number of these unpaid tickets, (iv) the make and model of the vehicle, (v) have you seized the vehicle or taken any other action to reduce the unpaid balance?
A: This information requested above is not held in a form that would enable it to be located, retrieved and extracted within the Appropriate Time Limit which equates to 18 hours as defined by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Regarding the data requested in question 8, our electronic reporting systems are unable to track the complete history of “persistent evader” vehicles over an extended period.
To produce the figures requested, the team would need to review each day’s Penalty Charge Notices individually, identify all vehicles issued with a PCN, and then manually check each registration against every subsequent day within the two‑year period. Each day takes several minutes to review, and every vehicle requires additional cross‑checking across hundreds of further days.
Based on this, we estimate that completing the request would require well over a week of staff time. At a rate of approximately two hours’ work per month of records, the total workload is substantial and exceeds what can reasonably be carried out within our available resources. Where the Limit is exceeded Public Authorities are not obliged to supply the information requested by virtue of S12 of the Act. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
The team have advised they may be able to answer most of the remaining questions, however other exemptions may apply, such as Section 40(2) for any personal data. Question 4 would not be answerable due to the gap of time between issuing of PCN and payment means which would mean the two could not be accurately measured.
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