Council owed £11million by fine dodgers
Hornsey and Crouch End Journal
06th December 06
HARINGEY Council is chasing nearly £11million in unpaid traffic and parking fines - with the top offender having racked up a debt of over £8,000 in nine months.
The massive debt - revealed in a Freedom of Information request by the Journal, is £10,921,000 - equivalent to the level of budget cuts the council needs to make over the next three years.
The current collection rate of 61 per cent suggests that millions of pounds in fines will never be recovered.
The top offender, from Wood Green, owes £8,085 after racking up 71 penalty charge notices since the end of February.
Simon Aldridge, director of London Motorists Action Group and resident of Christchurch Road, Crouch End, said: "It is a waste of taxpayer's money even issuing a ticket if it not going to be paid. You would think in this world of modern technology that people would not be able to get away with not paying parking tickets.
A Haringey Council spokesman said: "Vehicles showing the largest debts are frequently found to be registered to people who have since moved from the address where the vehicle is registered, or to those who evade paying parking fines and other matters by registering their vehicles at false addresses. Unpaid debts are passed to bailiffs who try to recover the money on our behalf.
06th December 06
HARINGEY Council is chasing nearly £11million in unpaid traffic and parking fines - with the top offender having racked up a debt of over £8,000 in nine months.
The massive debt - revealed in a Freedom of Information request by the Journal, is £10,921,000 - equivalent to the level of budget cuts the council needs to make over the next three years.
The current collection rate of 61 per cent suggests that millions of pounds in fines will never be recovered.
The top offender, from Wood Green, owes £8,085 after racking up 71 penalty charge notices since the end of February.
Simon Aldridge, director of London Motorists Action Group and resident of Christchurch Road, Crouch End, said: "It is a waste of taxpayer's money even issuing a ticket if it not going to be paid. You would think in this world of modern technology that people would not be able to get away with not paying parking tickets.
A Haringey Council spokesman said: "Vehicles showing the largest debts are frequently found to be registered to people who have since moved from the address where the vehicle is registered, or to those who evade paying parking fines and other matters by registering their vehicles at false addresses. Unpaid debts are passed to bailiffs who try to recover the money on our behalf.
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