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Re: Smart Parking - Willen Lake, Milton Keynes
DIR By: theelite16
Date: October 8, 2025, 6:25 am
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Hi all
Received the attached appeal rejection. I guess I have to appeal
to the IAS now.
PCN document
HTML https://app.box.com/s/jx2a459rke5175x07vmnxgo77zbdoaoi
Kind regards
Theelite16
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Re: Smart Parking - Willen Lake, Milton Keynes
DIR By: theelite16
Date: November 28, 2025, 10:38 am
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IAS rejected appeal, saying:
"The Appellant should understand that the Adjudicator is not in
a position to give legal advice to either of the parties but
they are entitled to seek their own independent legal advice.
The Adjudicator's role is to consider whether or not the parking
charge has a basis in law and was properly issued in the
circumstances of each individual case. In all Appeals the
Adjudicator is bound by the relevant law applicable at the time
and is only able to consider legal challenges and not factual
mistakes nor extenuating or mitigating circumstances. Throughout
this appeal the Operator has had the opportunity consider all
points raised and could have conceded the appeal at any stage.
The Adjudicator who deals with this Appeal is legally qualified
and each case is dealt with according to their understanding of
the law as it applies and the legal principles involved. A
decision by an Adjudicator is not legally binding on an
Appellant who is entitled to seek their own legal advice if they
so wish.
The Appellant's vehicle was recorded entering the site at 17.56
and leaving at 19.16. The Appellant paid for parking for 1 hour
at 18.04. The vehicle therefore overstayed the paid parking
session.
The Appellant raises an issue with compliance with PoFA.
The Notice to Keeper is dated 27th August 2025 and assuming
posted on that date would be with the Appellant two working days
later, the 29th August 2025, and deemed served within the
parameters set by Paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 PoFA.
Having considered all the issues raised and the evidence
submitted, I am satisfied that the operator has established that
the Parking Charge was properly issued in accordance with the
law.
This appeal therefore has to be dismissed. "
Let's see what happens now. It's interesting that the IAS
ignored the legal point about the legislation specifically
talking about "period of parking" which driving in and out of a
site is obviously not.
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Re: Smart Parking - Willen Lake, Milton Keynes
DIR By: b789
Date: November 28, 2025, 12:00 pm
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The IAS decision means nothing and is not binding on you. You
simply have some oil who is pretending to be a solicitor or,
heaven forbid, a Barista ::) who has no idea about law and is
paid to decide for the operator.
The IPC and its appeals body, the IAS, are both operated by
United Trade and Industry Ltd, company number 08248531. That is
a private limited company. It owns both the trade body and the
appeals service directly. In practice, this means the IPC marks
its own homework. So, are you surprised?
You can safely ignore all the useless debt recovery letters you
will shortly start receiving. Debt collectors are powerless to
do anything except to try and intimidate the low-hanging fruit
on the gullible tree into paying out of ignorance and fear.
Come back when you receive a Letter of Claim (LoC) and we can
take it from there.
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