By Bridget Rutherford
More than 9000 people wrote to the city council in the past year asking for their parking tickets be waived - and about 59 per cent of those were successful.
Christchurch City Council data released to The Star shows between August 2016 and July, 73,512 tickets were issued.
The total value of those was $5.9 million.
During that time, the city council received 9579 written submissions asking for their tickets to be waived, relating to 11,778 individual tickets.