More than £1m was collected in parking fines Reading last year but on which road were most drivers caught?

With around 700 more notices issued than the street in second place, a whopping 2,118 penalty charge notices were issued at East Reading’s Addington Road last year (2017/18).

Just 169 fines were handed out the year before (2016/17) on the street near the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

Oxford Road takes second place (1,319) after topping last year's list.

Making up the top four, more than a thousand fines were handed out on Sackville Street and Howard Street, with Castle Street and Kings Road also reaching four figures.

Hills Meadow Car Park, which was recently returned to council control, was seventh highest, followed by Cheapside and Erleigh Road.

Vachel Road, adjacent to Sackville Street, makes up the top 10.

Any surplus must be invested in transport projects, but the council spent more than it earned this year.

Although the council raised £1,193,948 from parking penalties, it spent more than £1.2m in enforcement.

Almost half of the total 39,630 fines were handed out in Abbey ward roads, while not a single parking penalty was issued in Mapledurham ward.

Parking enforcement is contracted out to NSL and the company also handle bus lane fines.

Around 96,000 bus lane fines were issued last year, giving the council a surplus of £425,915.

Drivers were by far the most likely to receive fines for illegally using Minster Street’s westbound bus lane; 22, 412 fines were issued on the town centre street – 23 per cent of the total.