Haringey council made a guaranteed minimum of £9.6 million in parking fines in a single year.

In the year from April 2014 to April 2015, a total of 206,585 tickets were issued to people across the borough for breaking parking rules.

According to information revealed in a Freedom of Information request made by the Tottenham & Wood Green Independent, 158,166 tickets were paid during that same time period, with 10,203 of those cancelled.

The minimum charge for a parking fine is £65, meaning the council made at least £9,617,595 if those fines were paid within 14 days.

When the fine is not paid within that time, it doubles to £130 - meaning Haringey council could have made as much as £19,235,190 in that time period.

A total of 48,419 parking tickets are outstanding and at various stages of the appeals process, meaning the council could add between £3,147,235 to £6,294,470 to the pot.

A Haringey council spokesman said: “All money raised from parking tickets goes back into highways improvements, such as resurfacing, and traffic and travel schemes that keep our roads safe and traffic flowing smoothly.”

The council said it could not provide the figure for the amount of money which had been refunded following appeals, the total number of appeals or a breakdown of streets and car parks where tickets were issued because it is currently unable to provide specific information requested from its existing operating system.

The council's response to the Tottenham Indendent's request said to provide this information “would involve a considerable amount time and work and a cost would be involved”.