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#Post#: 108440--------------------------------------------------
SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 2, 2026, 1:15 pm
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To all,
I have recently recieved a letter from SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO
KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE - with an amount outstanding of £100
(See attachment) and wish to get some advice from the wonderful
community of people here.
Interestingly, the letter only shows a picture of the vehicle
front and back and no evidence of parking?
"PCN Information
The Parking Charge has been issued to your vehicle. . . . ,
because between the period of 10:25 (10/01.2026) to 11:56
(10/01/2026) it was parked in a manner whereby the driver became
liable for a parking charge at Cardiff International Sports
Campus, Cardiff CF11 8AZ, paid for insufficient time (ANPR).
This is supported by camera images of the vehicle entering and
exiting the car park. The signage, which is clearly displayed at
the terms and conditions set out in the signage, the Parking
Charge is now payable to Smart Parking Ltd (as the Creditor).
You are notified under paragraph 9(2)(b) of schedule 4 of the
Protection of Freedom Act 2012 that the driver of the motor
vehicle is required to pay this notice in full. As we do not
know the driver's name or current postal address, you the
vehicle's keeper are now invited to either:
1. Pay the charge, or
2. If you were not the driver at the time of the event, please
provide us with the driver's full name and current address using
the contact details below and pass this Parking Charge to them.
(Once this information is receieved, we will pursue the driver).
This Notice is given to you under Paragraph 9(2)(f) of Schedule
4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 and is subject to our
complaince with the applicable conditions under this Act. If
within 28 days, beginning with the day after that on which the
notice is given (which is presumed to be the second working day
after the date of issue) the amount due has not been paid in
full and we do not know both the name and current address of the
driver, we have the right to recover any unpaid part of the
notice from you, the keeper."
*I like the carefully worded: you the vehicle's keeper are now
invited to either ;D ;D ;D
To give context.
I use this sports area often to take my small child to
grassroots football there. Turning off the main road you drive
along another road of the Sports area where there is 3
designated area's of paid parking, which guranteeded are full
every Saturaday morning. What isn't designated parking and does
not have any signage or yellow lines is a road directly behind
Cardiff International Sports Campus where people do park freely,
and on occassions I do myself.
I have hightlighted the photo on the attached as follows.
Red - paid designated parking
Green - behind the building.
I welcome all to comment, advise and point me in the right
direction of how to tackle this matter.
Best regards,
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#Post#: 108443--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: jfollows
Date: February 2, 2026, 1:23 pm
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> That page doesn't exist
> The requested page was not found.
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#Post#: 108457--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: Fluffykins
Date: February 2, 2026, 3:21 pm
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I think the active bit of those links have got ballsed up.
Copying the text you can SEE, rather than the click link behind,
gives these:
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HTML https://ibb.co/GQ526dqJ
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 3, 2026, 3:05 am
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Thank you [member=14]Fluffykins[/member] for adding them, not
sure exactly why the links became corrupted. Here is the link
for the one that was missing.
HTML https://ibb.co/ZpBrhfRS
#Post#: 108879--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 6, 2026, 1:11 am
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Hi all,
I know everyone is pretty busy but does anyone have any advice
of how to tackle the above?
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: Brenda_R2
Date: February 6, 2026, 1:38 am
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--- Quote from: c4733 link ---
>
>
> To all,
>
> I have recently recieved a letter from SMART PARKING - NOTICE
TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE - with an amount outstanding of £100
(See attachment) and wish to get some advice from the wonderful
community of people here.
>
>
>
--- End Quote ---
What's "recently"?
What's the date on the invoice?
Plus there appear to be multiple POFA defects in the wording,
the obvious one being that POFA 9(2)(a) requires a period of
parking.
Your notice only gives ANPR entry and exit times, which are not
the same as a parking period. ANPR records movement past a
camera, not when the vehicle was actually parked.
This alone is enough to make the notice non‑compliant.
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: DWMB2
Date: February 6, 2026, 5:21 am
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--- Quote from: Brenda_R2 link ---
>
> Your notice only gives ANPR entry and exit times, which are
not the same as a parking period. ANPR records movement past a
camera, not when the vehicle was actually parked.
>
--- End Quote ---
I think this would be a very difficult argument to run in many
cases. The legislation requires the parking period to be
'specified' - it would in my view be a very prescriptive
interpretation that found that an operator must define the
precise time the vehicle became parked and ceased to be parked.
If their evidence can show that, on the balance of
probabilities, a vehicle was parked for at least the
consideration period, and define the period during which this
happened, I imagine many judges would take the view that they
had complied.
In this case, the vehicle was on site for 31 minutes. On that
basis, you would potentially need to successfully argue that, on
the balance of probabilities, the vehicle spent 26 minutes
driving around.
I'm not saying the argument is impossible, but it's not a case
of just saying "If they're using ANPR they haven't specified a
period of parking and therefore the notice isn't PoFA
compliant".
#Post#: 108966--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 7, 2026, 2:47 am
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Please see above conversations for links of letter by Smart
Parking.
Smart Parking letter states arrival time 10:25am, departure time
11:56am. It shows only an image of the front of the vehicle and
the behind.
What would be the argument of naming the driver and holding the
keeper accountable and not parked in one of their designatated
carpark areas?
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: InterCity125
Date: February 7, 2026, 3:00 am
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GSV imagery is from 2019 so it's not possible for us to examine
current signage.
What you may need to do is to take some pictures from the access
road which you say you parked on.
Also the signage at the entrance to the facility.
#Post#: 109157--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 9, 2026, 3:46 am
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Thanks [member=6750]InterCity125[/member] I will take some
photo's this week and post them here. What should I do in the
meantime with regards to the letter good folks?
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