The five Northern Ireland roads where most parking tickets have been issued this year

A penalty charge notice leads to a maximum fine of £90

Details of the five roads across Northern Ireland where the most parking tickets have been issued so far this year have been revealed.

Penalty charge notices (PCNs) are mostly enforced through the Department of Infrastructure, while councils are responsible for some off-street parking. A PCN leads to a £90 fine, which is reduced to £45 if paid within 14 days.

Across Northern Ireland, the Lisburn Road in South Belfast is the most ticketed road, with 3,439 PCNs issued here between January 1 and early November, 2025. This amounts to a maximum of £309,501 revenue generated from the one road so far this year.

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Figures obtained by Belfast Live through a Freedom of Information request show that in this time period, Chichester Street in Belfast city centre was the second most ticketed road in Northern Ireland, with 1,277 PCNs issued.

Following this in third place is Stranmillis Road (1,184 tickets), then Grosvenor Road (1,062 tickets) and High Street in Holywood (985 tickets).

So far this year, a total of 46,044 PCNs have been issued across Belfast alone – equating to a maximum of £4,143,960 in revenue generated.

On November 1, the Department for Infrastructure appointed APCOA to manage the parking services it is responsible for. This includes on-street parking enforcement across Northern Ireland, blue badge misuse enforcement, vehicle clamping, bus lane and urban clearway enforcement, and pay and display machine maintenance.

On this date, cashless parking in residents parking zones, the three charged park and ride sites in Belfast, and in the controlled parking zones which operate for on-street parking in Belfast, Newry, and Lisburn changed to a ‘buy time’ model instead of the previous stop/start method.

This means when parking, drivers must now select a duration for their stay and pay this amount through the JustPark app. Those using the app don’t need to update their phone app for the change, and the cost of parking in these areas is not changing.

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