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Smartparking became an IPC member??
DIR By: WhoLetTheScamsOut
Date: June 4, 2025, 7:30 am
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Discussion about smartparking converting from BPA to IAS.
All my recent invoices from smartparking all had the BPA logo on
the ntk yet today I wake up to emails from smartparking
rejecting my appeal (even though it will 100% be cancelled as
they still fail to adhere to pofa2012 after trying to “rebrand”)
with no popla code. I look around the email and see the IPC logo
aint smart parking stating i can appeal to IAS if i wish to do
so.
Yet all their land signage and ntk still plastered with bpa.
Interesting
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Re: Smartparking became an IPC member??
DIR By: jfollows
Date: June 4, 2025, 7:39 am
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We noticed it here a few weeks ago.
Not sure what it means if you get a PCN festooned with the BPA
logo but when your appeal is rejected you get offered the IPC.
They are a company of colossal fibbers and presumably didn’t
like POPLA calling out their untruths, and imagine that the IPC
will not do the same.
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Re: Smartparking became an IPC member??
DIR By: JustLoveCars
Date: June 4, 2025, 7:50 am
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b789 is on it - FOI requests to get exact date of changeover,
any gaps etc...
I note the CoP states:
3.1.2 The entrance sign must display:
d) the logo of the ATA to which the parking operator belongs;
...although they will have thousands of signs - I believe there
will be a grace period for transition (although I can't find any
defined period).
In my opinion, POPLA must be offered for charges issued when
they were BPA members. Reports of paperwork explicitly
mentioning POPLA but denied in favour of IAS.
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Re: Smartparking became an IPC member??
DIR By: b789
Date: June 4, 2025, 10:15 am
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Still waiting for FOI response. As for the legality of not
offering a POPLA code whilst their contractual paperwork (the
NtK) says they must, is going to be a bit of a challenge.
However, there is nothing to stop you sending (not so) Smart a
formal complaint about not being offered a POPLA code.
They will just try and twist it into a point that they are
offering you a chance to win the fixed lottery that is the IAS,
so you are not being deprived of an "independent" appeals
service (ha!).
Once I receive the FOI information we'll have slightly better
understanding of where they stand. However, as already pointed
out, it just means that this will move on to a court claim which
has zero chance of succeeding and will eventually be struck out
or discontinued anyway. Whilst it prolongs the process, be
satisfied in the knowledge that it will cost them more in the
long run than it will ever cost you.
I would even suggest making a futile IAS appeal anyway, just so
as it costs them even more! It will cost them £15 if they win
the IAS appeal or £25 in the excruciatingly remote chance they
lose. Of course they can just concede at that point and it will
cost them £0. Just remember, you are dealing with (not so)
Smart!
This has given me the impetus to create a bog standard template
for all IAS appeals, just to frustrate all IPC operators and
cost them a bit more money than if we simply ignore the IAS.
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