Some park for free while others pay more than £200 a year, Freedom of Information requests find.
The price of parking your car near your home ranges from nothing at all to hundreds of pounds per year, depending on where you live – and even residents of the same city often find themselves paying wildly different amounts.
These are the findings of a series of Freedom of Information requests made to councils around the country on behalf of Trusted Dealers, which revealed that some motorists are paying upwards of £200 a year in residential parking permits, generating an average of £291,000 for local authorities.