How many bus lane Penalty Charge Notices Wokingham Borough Council issues, from which cameras — from data released under Freedom of Information (ref WBCIR:22235).
3,331
PCNs issued in 3 years2023/24–2025/26
1,312
PCNs in 2025/26across 3 cameras
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Bus lane PCNs issued per year
Wokingham's cameras issued 3,331 penalties in the three years charted here, and the count has risen each full year — 1,110 in 2024/25 and 1,312 in 2025/26, against 909 in the seven months of 2023/24. A further 404 were issued between April and August 2026, taking the total to 3,735 since enforcement began on 20 September 2023; that year is still running, so it is not charted. The money is the more striking part of the answer: the council collected £128,591.15 gross across the whole period and spent £167,077.20 operating the three cameras, so bus lane enforcement in Wokingham has run at a loss of £38,486.05. The two Hyde End Lane cameras cost £102,862.28 to run and brought in £5,345.00 between them.
Which cameras issue the most fines
Camera-enforced bus lane locations ranked by PCNs issued in 2025/26. The last column is the 3-year total.
Wokingham camera-enforces bus restrictions at two places, covered by three cameras. Milton Road in the town centre is prohibited to all vehicles except buses at any time, and accounts for 95% of every penalty the council has issued — 3,536 of 3,735 counting the months of 2026/27 that are too recent to chart. The Hyde End Lane bus gate at Spencers Wood is covered by two cameras, one on each approach, and the council names each by the road it stands on: the westbound camera at the junction with Fullbrook Avenue (149 penalties to date) and the eastbound camera at the junction with Bolton Road (50). Both are grouped as one row here because they are two views of the same bus gate. The eastbound camera issued one or two penalties in almost every month of its life apart from August 2024, when it issued 28; the council gave no explanation for that month.
Challenges & appeals — do they work?
Drivers made 276 formal representations across the period and Wokingham upheld comparatively few of them: at Milton Road, 262 challenges produced 10 successful representations plus 11 upheld on a technicality, against 86 rejected, with 35 rejected requests to keep the discounted rate, 83 still pending and 37 closed for other reasons. The two Hyde End Lane cameras drew 14 challenges between them, of which 5 succeeded. Eight drivers took a Milton Road penalty to the independent Traffic Penalty Tribunal: 3 won, 1 lost, 1 withdrew and the council did not contest the other 3 — so of the five that reached a decision, drivers effectively came away with six cancellations against one loss. No Hyde End Lane penalty has ever gone to the tribunal. See our guide to appealing a bus lane PCN for the grounds that win.
The fine itself
A bus lane PCN from Wokingham Borough Council is £70, reduced to £35 if paid within 21 days. It is a civil penalty — there are no licence points. Wokingham publishes the 50% discount and the 21-day window but has never published the penalty amount itself, and this response did not state it either. £70 reduced to £35 is the standard charge for a moving traffic contravention in England outside London, and the council's own income figures are consistent with it, so that is the figure shown here — but it is the England default rather than a figure Wokingham has confirmed.
What the council does not hold or publish
Income year by year. The council gave its income as a single figure per camera covering the whole period — £123,246.15 at Milton Road, £3,385.00 at the Fullbrook Avenue camera and £1,960.00 at the Bolton Road camera, £128,591.15 in all — and did not split any of it by year. A three-year total cannot be charted as an annual series without inventing the split, so no income chart is shown; the totals are set out in the paragraph above.
Discounted payments year by year. 2,527 penalties were paid at the discounted rate across the whole period — 2,413 at Milton Road, 69 at Fullbrook Avenue and 45 at Bolton Road — but the council did not break that down by year either.
Challenges year by year. The representation and appeal figures are period totals per camera, not annual ones, so they are described below rather than tabulated by year.
A full first year. Enforcement began on 20 September 2023, so 2023/24 covers roughly seven months rather than twelve and is not comparable with the years after it. The council issued warning notices for six months before that, to first-time drivers at each site.
The bus lanes behind these cameras
Each of these locations has a full page with operating hours, permitted vehicles and the governing traffic order: