If you want to avoid having a parking ticket stuck on your windscreen in Swansea , don't overstay your welcome on The Strand.

The city centre backstreet is fertile territory for the council's traffic wardens who issued 1,537 tickets there during 2018-19 - the most of any street in the county.

Parking illegally also carried a particular risk in nearby Wind Street and High Street, where 1,144 and 1,101 tickets respectively were issued.

During the 12-month period, Swansea wardens dished out 46,494 penalty charges, which brought the council £1.98m in revenue.

The tickets are £70 or £50 - or half if you pay within 14 days.

The most penalty charges issued by an individual warden was 3,751, pipping their nearest colleague by 59 tickets.

In addition, camera enforcement vehicles operated by the council issued a further 10,711 penalty charges.

While some people bemoan the presence of wardens, many business owners get frustrated that cars are parked illegally outside their premises for hours on end, in turn affecting their footfall.

A spokesman said: "Enforcement is carried out to ensure the safety of all road users and pedestrians and to maintain the free flow of traffic through congested, built-up and residential areas."

The Strand, where more parking tickets were issued in 2018-19 than any other street in Swansea

During 2018-19 the council also received £3.9m from car parking charges, but made a £335,000 loss from its park and ride service.

All revenue received from car parks was reinvested in the parking and park and ride service, said the council.

The figures follow a Freedom of Information request by the Local Democracy Reporter Service. Councils were only asked for the streets where the most tickets were issued - but Swansea Council also provided figures on the number of tickets issued in each street.

The top streets for parking tickets in Swansea and Carmarthenshire

Figures are for tickets issued in the year 2018/19

Swansea:

The Strand - 1,537

Wind Street - 1144

High Street - 1,101

Carmarthenshire (The number of tickets in each location was not provided):

Lane at the rear of Llanelli's Vaughan Street

Blue Street, Carmarthen

Lammas Street, Carmarthen

Carmarthenshire Council, meanwhile, issued 8,897 parking tickets in 2018-19.

The most tickets were issued on the lane at the rear of Llanelli's Vaughan Street, followed by Blue Street and Lammas Street in Carmarthen.

Lammas Street, Carmarthen

The council was unable to say how much revenue it received from car parks and how much it spent on them because these figures come under a wider parking services department.

Next year's figures are likely to include tickets from camera enforcement vehicles, which began operating in Carmarthenshire in April.