CAR park operators are set to demand millions in fines this year.

This is a result of the Government looking to remove legislation designed to manage 'cowboy' car park operators.

The top seven operators in the country turned over more than £650million in the past three years, with £50million profit despite the pandemic.

Operators do not own the car parks, but lease them on a contract from the land owner.

The maximum fine for parking is £100, but this can easily increase if it is not paid in enough time, and motorists could be faced with huge debts to car park operators.

In Warrington, many car parks are owned and operated by the council.

For the 2020/21 year, the council issued almost half-a-million pounds' worth of parking tickets to motorists in Warrington - with more than £280,000 of fines being paid to the council from those fines as of May 2022.

According to the Mail Online, 30,000 motorists are slapped with parking fines in the country every day - which means one driver was hit with a fine every three seconds from May to June this year.

Warrington is not without its share of parking controversies.

Not only did the council issue nearly £500,000 in parking fines last year, but private car parks are causing a stir, too.

One car park in Culcheth was criticised after a woman was allegedly fined £75 for using the car park when taking her mother to her GP in the village.

The car park is one of the largest in the area, and for years has been used by many visitors to the area - however, the operators have since changed the restrictions on the car park.

Visitors now have two hours on the car park - which serves as a car park for Culcheth Sainsbury's, and Culcheth shopping centre - with no return within one hour.