Nearly 6,000 Parking Tickets issued in district in first six months of 2023

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: Columba O'Hare; Category: News; Published: 04 August 2023

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A Traffic Warden on Buttercrane Quay, Newry. Photograph: Columba O'Hare/ Newry.ie

A total of 5,862 parking tickets (Penalty Charge Notices) have been issued in the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council area in the first six months of this year. That's according to statistics released by the Department for Infrastructure under an FOI request.

The ongoing trajectory seems to be upwards with a total of 7,457 in 2020, 7,934 in 2021 and 10,162 in 2022. Our nearest neighbours Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon had 4,112 tickets issued in the same time period.

In the six month period our Council area had the fourth largest number of tickets issued after Belfast, 35,533, Derry and Strabane, 8,028 and Fermanagh & Omagh, 6,112. Parking tickets are enforced by the Department for Infrastructure who employ Traffic Wardens from NSL Services Group.

Overstaying a time limit whilst using on-street parking is a common way to receive a parking ticket and with Newry being just one of three Controlled Parking Zones throughout the north where charges apply (others being Belfast and Lisburn) this no doubt adds to the figures. There are around 440 on-street parking spaces in Newry!

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Ivor Nother · 3 years ago
If you overstay, and you get issued a PCN, there is a challenge process you can avail of to have it rescinded if you have a reason that the DFI will accept. A PCN for an overstay may not be issued until the parking ticket has been expired for 10 minutes, so there is leeway built in to the system. The money accrued from payment of PCNs is indeed invested back into the local infrastructure, an example of that would be Hill Street and John Mitchell Place having nice stonework pavements. The money is not solely invested into Newry alone, but used for the whole of Northern Ireland.
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Damien · 3 years ago
This is where individuals end up bearing the brunt of a broken system. No decent public transport options and no cycle lanes = an increased need to travel by car and the need to use charged parking.
If you overstay, you're then hit with a substantial penalty.

The penalty system would be fine if the money (along with the hourly charges on the meters!) went back into local infrastructure, but considering the state of the roads around the area (the constant fight to get potholes fixed and resurfacing schemes underway) and the lack of planning for aforementioned transport links and greener infrastructure, it would appear that the money is going elsewhere. Although, just not into a suitable bridge to allow waterway traffic of any decent size into Albert Basin though!
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