Parking Services Penalty Charge Notices 2017-18

2017-18 transactional data from the London Borough of Camden's parking management system, covering penalty charge notices issued by Civil Enforcement Officers on street and via CCTV. Records include contravention code, ticket type, street, parking restriction, vehicle category, case status, and approximate location data. The spatial accuracy column indicates whether location data comes from officer GPS, a fixed CCTV camera, or is unknown.

Use Cases

• Analyzing spatial patterns of parking violations based on the provided street and location accuracy data.
• Evaluating the frequency and outcome of different contravention codes and case statuses.
• Comparing enforcement activity and vehicle categories between on-street and CCTV-based methods.
• Assessing the reliability of geospatial data for policy analysis using the spatial accuracy column.

Strengths

• Includes detailed geospatial metadata with a defined 'Spatial Accuracy' column explaining location source.
• Covers a specific fiscal year (2017-18) for temporal analysis of parking enforcement.
• Distinguishes between on-street and CCTV-issued penalty notices, allowing for method comparison.

Limitations

• Metadata completeness is low: row count, file size, specific column names, and license information are unknown across all sources.
• Conflicting last updated dates exist between platforms (2026-07-02 on uk_data vs. 2023-02-21 on eu_open_data), casting doubt on data freshness.
• Location data may be approximate, especially for CCTV-issued notices where the camera location may be distant from the violation.

Provenance

Source

London Borough of Camden parking management system.

Collection Method

Transactional records from penalty charge notices issued by Civil Enforcement Officers and CCTV systems.

Time Range

2017-18

Freshness

Last updated dates conflict: 2026-07-02 (uk_data) and 2023-02-21 (eu_open_data).

Geography

London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom.