Parking Account and Space Data for Rochdale Borough Council

Rochdale Borough Council provides data on its parking account and controlled parking spaces. The dataset includes a breakdown of income and expenditure for the authority's parking account and the number of marked on-street and off-street parking spaces. It is available in XLSX and CSV formats under the Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Analyze parking revenue and expenditure trends based on the parking account breakdown.
• Assess the supply of controlled parking infrastructure based on the count of on-street and off-street spaces.
• Model local authority budget performance for transportation services based on income and expenditure data.
• Benchmark parking management metrics across different council areas based on financial and spatial data.

Strengths

• Data is provided under the Open Government Licence, which encourages re-use.
• Dataset includes both financial (income/expenditure) and physical infrastructure (parking space count) data.
• Files are available in common, machine-readable formats (XLSX, CSV).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is 2026-07-08 13:31:23.629121.

Provenance

Source

Rochdale Borough Council

Collection Method

Likely compiled from the council's internal parking account and infrastructure records.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:23.629121; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rochdale Borough Council area, UK.