Parking charges - how much profit did your council make last year?
New figures from the Institute of Advanced Motorists have revealed that some local authorities and councils from across the country are making huge profits from parking charges.
Here is how local authorities in the Meridian region fared in pounds. The figures in bold are where councils made or lost close to, or more than one million pounds:
Local authority, 2010/2011 profits / losses in £
Adur 158,000
Arun 475,000
Ashford 620,000
Aylesbury Vale -2,510,000
Basildon 205,000
Basingstoke & Deane 936,000
Bournemouth UA 3,621,000
Bracknell Forest UA 118,000
Brighton & Hove UA 11,504,000
Buckinghamshire -110,000
Canterbury 1,996,000
Chichester 2,432,000
Christchurch 1,426,000
Crawley -3,000
Dartford -72,000
Dorset -99,000
Dover 719,000
East Hampshire 250,000
East Sussex 565,000
Eastbourne 284,000
Eastleigh 984,000
Elmbridge 1,038,000
Essex -469,000
Fareham 1,078,000
Hampshire -237,000
Hastings 1,406,000
Havant 279,000
Horsham 665,000
Isle of Wight UA 1,684,000
Lewes 295,000
Maidstone 388,000
Mid Sussex 767,000
New Forest 711,000
Oxford 2,739,000
Oxfordshire -127,000
Poole UA 2,297,000
Portsmouth UA 1,687,000
Reading UA 733,000
Sevenoaks 1,419,000
Southampton UA -2,529,000
Thanet 415,000
Medway Towns UA 469,000
Tunbridge Wells 2,135,000
West Dorset 1,550,000
West Sussex -360,000
W'mouth & Portland 1,782,000
Wiltshire UA 1,078,000
Winchester 1,207,000