How many bus lane Penalty Charge Notices Walsall Council issues, how much it raises — from data released under Freedom of Information (ref RFI-16314-26).
70,940
PCNs issued in 4 years2022/23–2025/26
£1.86m
gross income, 4 yearsnet of costs not held
16,625
PCNs in 2025/26
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Bus lane PCNs issued per yearGross PCN income per year
Walsall issued 70,940 bus lane penalty charge notices in the four financial years to March 2026 and took £1,863,927 in payments across the same period — an average of about £26 for every penalty issued, well under the £35 discounted rate, which is what a mix of discounted payments, full-price payments and penalties never paid at all looks like. Enforcement peaked in 2023/24 at 21,132 penalties and £572,128, up by half on the 14,191 issued the year before, and has fallen in each year since to 16,625 in 2025/26. A further 2,596 penalties and £45,870 had been recorded in 2026/27 by the time the council pulled the figures, part way through that year; those are left out of the chart above because they cover an incomplete year.
Where the cameras are
Walsall's own website names 13 roads with bus lanes or bus gates, from the A34 Birmingham Road and Wolverhampton Road to the bus-only street in Streetly. The council would not break its penalty figures down by camera, so this page cannot show which of the 13 is the busiest — the totals here cover all of them together. Hours and the exact permitted vehicles are confirmed for seven of the sites, from a separate response the council gave in July 2026; the rest are on the council's list without published hours, and a follow-up request for those is outstanding.
Challenges & appeals — do they work?
Walsall holds no count of formal representations against its bus lane penalties. What it could report is how many penalties attracted correspondence of any kind at any stage of the process: 2,806 in 2022/23, 4,475 in 2023/24, 4,160 in 2024/25 and 3,151 in 2025/26 — roughly one penalty in five in every year. Separately, 1,709, 2,613, 2,350 and 2,033 penalties in those years were paid in full after a Notice to Owner had been served but before it reached a Charge Certificate, which the council was careful to say is not the same as being paid at the discounted rate. Appeal outcomes are published by the Traffic Penalty Tribunal rather than by the council. See our guide to appealing a bus lane PCN for the grounds that win.
The fine itself
A bus lane PCN from Walsall Council is £70, reduced to £35 if paid within 21 days. It is a civil penalty — there are no licence points. £70, halved to £35 if paid within 21 days of the notice date. Confirmed on the council's own bus lane restrictions page.
What the council does not hold or publish
A breakdown by camera. Walsall refused the per-location and month-by-month figures on the ground that extracting them would exceed the time limit the Freedom of Information Act allows. Everything on this page is therefore a borough-wide total covering all of the council's bus lane cameras together, and there is no league table of individual sites.
Income split by lane or by year of issue. The money shown is what the council banked in each financial year across every bus lane camera. It could not be split by location, and it is not tied to the year the penalties behind it were issued — a payment made in one year may settle a penalty issued in the last one.
Penalties paid at the discounted rate. The council could not extract how many penalties were paid at the £35 discounted rate. It supplied a different figure instead — penalties paid in full after a Notice to Owner but before a Charge Certificate — and was explicit that the two are not the same thing, so no discount take-up rate is shown here.
Formal representations and their outcomes. No count of formal representations was given. The council could only report how many penalties attracted correspondence of any kind at any stage, which is a broader category, and it pointed to the Traffic Penalty Tribunal's published appeals data for actual appeal outcomes.
Income net of operating costs. Only the gross take was given. What it costs Walsall to run the cameras and the challenge process is not separated from it.