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Description
Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) transactional records from the London Borough of Camden's parking management system for the 2019-20 period. The data includes notices issued by Civil Enforcement Officers on-street and via CCTV, with attribution for contravention code, ticket type, street, parking restriction, vehicle category, and case status. A 'Spatial Accuracy' column indicates the source of location data, which may be GPS from an officer's device, a fixed CCTV camera location, or unknown.
Use Cases
Analyzing spatial patterns of parking violations based on the 'Spatial Accuracy' and street location columns.
Evaluating the prevalence of specific contravention codes to understand common parking offenses.
Comparing enforcement outcomes and case statuses across different vehicle categories.
Assessing the relative use and coverage of on-street vs. CCTV-based enforcement methods.
Strengths
Includes detailed attribution for each notice, such as contravention code, vehicle category, and case status.
Provides location metadata with a documented 'Spatial Accuracy' column to qualify the source of geospatial data.
Covers a specific fiscal year (2019-20) for temporal analysis of parking enforcement activity.
Limitations
Key metadata such as row count, column names, file size, and specific license are not provided by any source.
Conflicting 'last updated' dates (2026-07-02 and 2024-12-29) create uncertainty about data freshness and maintenance.
Location data may be approximate, as CCTV camera locations can be many metres from the vehicle, and some records have no location captured.
Provenance
Source
London Borough of Camden parking management system, published via the Government Digital Service.
Collection Method
Transactional records from parking enforcement activities, including data captured by Civil Enforcement Officers' handheld devices and fixed CCTV cameras.
Time Range
2019-20
Freshness
2026-07-02 07:14:08.482931 (most recent date found, but appears to be a future date which may be an error)
Geography
London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom.
The 'last updated' metadata includes a future date (2026), which may indicate a system error or placeholder value. The specific data license is not stated.