Midlands roads where most drivers are hit with parking fines as 48 punished every week at hotspot

Drivers in England face £60 fine for parking 11 seconds over time limit
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The roads in parts of the West Midlands where drivers get hit by parking fines most often have been revealed. Thousands of parking penalties were slapped onto windscreens in the Black Country areas of Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall last year.

And drivers now know the streets they need to take extra care if they want to avoid being hit in the pocket. These are the areas the traffic wardens visit most often.

Unsurprisingly, this is mostly on the streets of the town and city centre. Motorists are less likely to get away with parking on double yellows, failing to pay or overstaying in these areas. The Black Country parking fine hotspot in Anderson Road in Smethwick, a small street close to the busy Hagley Road which has a number of designated parking zones.

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Here, a massive 2,292 penalty charge notices were issued in 2024, up to November. That works out to around 48 every week, showing how often parking rules are broken along the street.

Other top roads for penalties included High Street, West Bromwich and High Street, Smethwick. Over in Walsall, hundreds more fines were handed out in Bridge Street than anywhere else in the borough. The full list can be seen below. It comes after we revealed the parking fine hotspots in Birmingham, which can be seen here.

Exclusive data obtained by BirminghamLive under freedom of information laws showed how Sandwell Council hands out many more parking penalties than its Black Country counterparts - and brings in much more money from fines.

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Sandwell Council made a whopping £896,715, compared to £477,023 in Walsall, £346,259 in Wolverhampton and £174,236 in Dudley.

Sandwell

  • Anderson Road, Smethwick - 2,292

  • High Street, West Bromwich - 1,794

  • High Street, Smethwick 1,625

  • Bearwood Road, Smethwick 1,214

  • Poplar Road, Smethwick 1,239

  • Wattis Road, Smethwick 1,055

  • Little Lane, West Bromwich 1,023

  • Victoria Street, West Bromwich 638

  • Waterloo Road, Smethwick 417

  • Lyndon, West Bromwich 422

Wolverhampton

  • Cleveland Street - 720

  • Wulfruna Street - 604

  • Thornley Street - 570

  • Market Street - 517

  • Berry Street - 515

  • Red Lion Street - 444

  • Waterloo Road - 421

  • Bilston Street - 320

  • Cheapside - 317

  • Queen Street -300

Dudley

  • High Street, Pensnett - 482

  • Bushey Fields Road, Dudley - 463

  • High Street, Dudley - 452

  • High Street, Stourbridge - 272

  • New Street, Dudley - 199

  • Stone Street, Dudley - 192

  • Castle Street, Dudley - 167

  • High Street, Brierley Hill - 122

  • Paganel Drive, Dudley - 118

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Walsall

  • Bridge Street - 1214

  • Lower Hall Lane - 685

  • Station Street, Walsall - 608

  • Bradford Street - 592

  • Freer Street - 584

  • Newport Street - 519

  • Lichfield Street - 474

  • Goodall Street - 462

  • Hillary Street - 380

  • Stafford Street, Walsall - 377