CASH-STRAPPED Birmingham City Council has pulled in more than £4 million in parking fines from its 32 parking wardens in just 12 months.

The council’s Civil Enforcement Officers issued a whopping 126,171 penalty charge notices between January and December 2010, securing the local authority £4,256,599 in revenue.

As a result, on average, each one made an impressive £133,019 for the council.

But the local authority has refused to disclose how much they each earn and said they did not receive incentives for issuing the tickets.

The majority of the roads featured in the top ten of the most ticketed were in the city centre, figures obtained through the Freedom of Information Act have revealed.

But motorists on Alum Rock Road, in the inner city suburb of Alum Rock, were hardest hit of all – with 3,856 tickets being issued there, the highest number for an individual street.

Traders in the road criticised the authority for issuing such stringent restrictions on the street.

But they said the parking wardens were ‘fair and tolerant’.

Aftab Chughtai, trader and vice chair of Saltley Business Association (SBA), said: “The restrictions are quite confusing, especially for visitors to the city, as you are entitled to park on one side of the road from 7am to 1pm and then the other side of the road from 1pm to 7pm.

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