The fine itself
A bus lane PCN from Southwark Council is £160, reduced to £80 if paid within 14 days. It is a civil penalty — there are no licence points.
What the council does not hold or publish
- What the cameras raise. No income figure is published here, because the council's own two answers cannot both be right. Southwark reported £4,018,367 of gross income across the five years and, separately, 211,430 penalties paid at the discounted rate. The London discount was £65 until 1 April 2025 and £80 after it, so those payments alone should have raised something above £13 million — more than three times the income figure. Asked to reconcile them, the council confirmed the £4,018,367 covers the full five years requested, said that both totals count bus gate penalties as well as bus lane ones, declined to split either figure by year or by bus lanes alone on the grounds that this would be a new request, and closed the case. The gap is still unexplained, so charting either number would state something we have good reason to think is wrong. The penalty counts and per-camera figures on this page come from a different part of the response and are unaffected.
- Net income. Nor is there a net figure. The council holds no figure for the operating costs of bus lane enforcement alone, and pointed instead to its Parking Annual Monitoring Report 2024-25, which reports the Special Parking Account as a whole.
- Enforcement start dates. The council gave no start date per camera, saying only that some sites have been enforced for more than five years and that later starts can be read off the monthly table. No date is asserted here.
- Year-by-year challenges. Challenge outcomes were given only as five-year totals, not split by year: 61,601 formal representations, of which 6,698 were accepted and 54,903 refused, and 1,333 appeals to the tribunal — 214 allowed, 1,007 refused, 79 not contested and 33 withdrawn. That is roughly one representation accepted in every nine made.
The bus lanes behind these cameras
Each of these locations has a full page with operating hours, permitted vehicles and the governing traffic order:
- Dulwich Village Bus Gate
- Townley Road Bus Gate
- Manor Place Bus Gate
- Burbage Road Bus Gate
- Carter Street Bus Gate
- Camberwell Road Bus Lane
- Turney Road Bus Gate
- Grange Road Bus Lane
- Bush Road Bus Lane
- Lower Road Bus Lane
- East Dulwich Road Bus Lane
- Lordship Lane Bus Lane
- Champion Park Bus Lane
- Grove Vale Bus Lane
- Southwark Bridge Road Bus Lane
- Walworth Road Bus Lane
- Dog Kennel Hill Bus Lane
- Crystal Palace Parade Bus Lane
- Rotherhithe Old Road Bus Lane
- Denmark Hill Bus Lane
- Waterloo Road Bus Lane
- Newington Causeway Bus Lane