Parking Enforcement in Moseley

At the Moseley Forum meeting earlier this month anti -social parking was brought up, as it often is.

We have obtained data from the council of the number of Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) issued in Moseley ward in 2025/6.

A total of 3806 penalty tickets were issued across Moseley ward, 1564 of them were on Alcester Road, but only 4 on Oxford Rd. Looking at the list as a whole we feel too much emphasis is put on daytime patrols and not enough in the evening.

In December 2024, Izzy took part in a ‘task and finish’ scrutiny enquiry examining the council’s response to road safety, in particular traffic enforcement. One of the recommendations Izzy made, which was included in the final report, was that the council should re-instate it’s ‘annual parking report’, which was last published in 2018/2019.

We are pleased that the 2024/2025 report has now been published. It makes interesting reading, showing that Alcester Road was actually the road with the sixth most PCNs issued outside the city centre.
What is quite shocking is how few patrols have taken place outside schools, with zero PCNs issued in Moseley ward in the entire year. We plan to ask a lot more questions about how schools patrols are determined and managed.

Parking enforcement in Birmingham is contracted out to a private company NSL. This is the first confirmation we have had that income from penalty notices and parking fees is in excess of the cost of the contract. How the surplus is used is another topic for future questions.

You can read the report below:

Currently obstruction of pavements or junctions, where there are no parking restrictions are the responsibility of the police to enforce. The government has stated it will issue powers to local authorities to enforce pavement parking, but as yet we do not know what these powers will look like.

In the meantime the best way to deal with dangerous parking like below, which Izzy came across recently whilst with her grandchildren, is to report it to the police via Operation Snap. Hopefully, they will issue a retrospective penalty to the owner of this car in Valentine Road.