How many bus lane Penalty Charge Notices London Borough of Sutton issues, from which cameras, how much it raises, and how often challenges succeed — from data released under Freedom of Information (ref FOIS8155).
2,538
PCNs issued in 5 years2021/22–2025/26
£166,511
gross income, 5 yearsnet of costs not held
316
PCNs in 2025/26across 2 cameras
68%
paid at the £80 discount2025/26
29%
of challenges upheld2025/26
This page reports data released by London Borough of Sutton under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIS8155, responded 2026-08-12). Figures are the council's own. BusLaneCheck is independent and not affiliated with the council. Compare every UK authority →
Bus lane PCNs issued per yearGross PCN income per year
Sutton issued 2,538 bus lane penalties across the five years, and 2,002 of them — nearly four in five — came from the single camera at Rose Hill. Kimpton Road, the bus-only stretch by the Sutton hospital site, averages barely more than two a week. Both sites are heading down rather than up: the borough-wide total has fallen every year since 2021/22 apart from a small rise in 2024/25, and 2025/26's 316 penalties are less than half the 665 issued four years earlier. Kimpton Road's collapse is the sharper of the two, from 134 penalties in 2024/25 to 28 in 2025/26, with three months of that year recording none at all. The two cameras have raised £166,510 gross over the period. Challenges are unusually rare here — 405 formal representations against 2,538 penalties, about one in six — but they are worth making: the council cancelled 86 of them, and only three drivers took a case as far as London Tribunals in five years, two of whom won.
Which cameras issue the most fines
Camera-enforced bus lane locations ranked by PCNs issued in 2025/26. The last column is the 5-year total.
Sutton runs a small operation: two camera sites in the whole borough, Rose Hill and Kimpton Road, both enforced since April 2017. The council confirmed this is its complete list. We hold three other Sutton bus lanes — Crown Road, Lodge Road and Throwley Way — and none of them appears in the council's PCN figures, which means no camera has issued a penalty there in five years.
Challenges & appeals — do they work?
Formal representations to the council, and appeals to the independent London Tribunals (the Environment and Traffic Adjudicators). Drivers made 405 formal challenges over 5 years.
Year
Challenges
Upheld
Rejected
Success rate
To tribunal
2021/22
107
22
85
21%
1 (1 allowed / 0 dismissed)
2022/23
91
7
84
8%
0 (0 allowed / 0 dismissed)
2023/24
82
17
65
21%
1 (1 allowed / 0 dismissed)
2024/25
77
26
51
34%
1 (0 allowed / 1 dismissed)
2025/26
48
14
34
29%
0 (0 allowed / 0 dismissed)
The council's own figures show the share of challenges upheld went from 21% in 2021/22 to 29% in 2025/26 — so a well-grounded challenge is worth making. See our guide to appealing a bus lane PCN for the grounds that win.
The fine itself
A bus lane PCN from London Borough of Sutton is £160, reduced to £80 if paid within 14 days. It is a civil penalty — there are no licence points. £160, halved to £80 within 14 days, is the current London bus lane penalty, in force since 7 April 2025. For the first four years shown here the London penalty was £130, halved to £65, so do not divide the older income figures by today's rate. The money reconciles against the rate that applied at the time in every one of the five years.
What the council does not hold or publish
Income net of operating costs. The council supplied the money it received and nothing about what the two cameras cost to run, so every income figure here is gross. There is no way to say from this response what Sutton's bus lane enforcement nets.
The date enforcement began at each camera. The council did give these — both cameras started on 1 April 2017 — but that is the start of the financial year rather than a switch-on date, so it may be the date the records begin rather than the day the first penalty was issued.
The bus lanes behind these cameras
Each of these locations has a full page with operating hours, permitted vehicles and the governing traffic order: