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#Post#: 109169--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: InterCity125
Date: February 9, 2026, 5:04 am
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We cannot advise UNTIL we see the relevant signage.
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 16, 2026, 9:52 am
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Hi all,
Here are the photos from the area of where I have received the
notice from Smart Parking. The sign closest to where I parked
behind the building is in welsh, which is not at all help as I
don’t speak the language.
Presumably there are other signs dotted around the area
referring to the parking bays, but nothing that suggests or
indicates the road behind the Cardiff Sports Campus is paid
parking?
There are no parking signs when leaving the main road and
entering into the Sports area.
Any thoughts?
HTML https://ibb.co/VpQ9fggp
HTML https://ibb.co/wZdGCr6J
HTML https://ibb.co/rKm3Hcwy
HTML https://ibb.co/mVvMMFzB
#Post#: 110248--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 18, 2026, 1:14 pm
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Hi alls,
Any advice with the above?
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 18, 2026, 1:55 pm
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This was a response on the forum from [member=26]b789[/member]
to marxman,
"I am the keeper of the vehicle, and I dispute your 'parking
charge'. I deny any liability or contractual agreement, and I
will be making a complaint about your predatory conduct to your
client landowner.
As your Notice to Keeper (NtK) does not fully comply with ALL
the requirements of PoFA 2012, you are unable to hold the keeper
of the vehicle liable for the charge. Partial or even
substantial compliance is not sufficient. There will be no
admission as to who was driving and no inference or assumptions
can be drawn. PPS has relied on contract law allegations of
breach against the driver only.
The registered keeper cannot be presumed or inferred to have
been the driver, nor pursued under some twisted interpretation
of the law of agency. Your NtK can only hold the driver liable.
PPS have no hope at POPLA, so you are urged to save us both a
complete waste of time and cancel the PCN."
Is it worth me using this paragraph to write to Smart Parking?
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: DWMB2
Date: February 19, 2026, 3:23 am
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The PCN links seem to have expired so I can't check them for
PoFA compliance. Can you please re-upload?
I'd be minded to appeal (as the keeper) on the grounds that the
signage was not sufficiently prominent to create an enforceable
contract.
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 19, 2026, 4:28 am
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Here are all the links again for the signage. I have checked and
they are working and viewable. The PCN i will upload later
today.
HTML https://ibb.co/zVVQ3byp
HTML https://ibb.co/VpvvDDgW
HTML https://ibb.co/FbwFQ8zW
HTML https://ibb.co/Q3vpZBGf
HTML https://ibb.co/LX7LpBQg
HTML https://ibb.co/XZQqkGgB
HTML https://ibb.co/n8QV427L
HTML https://ibb.co/ks5jTftt
HTML https://ibb.co/BKHQXV78
There is NO parking signage from leaving the main road (Leckwith
Road) into the Sports Campus area. The first signage is located
in the parking bays area. After that, there is one or two signs
dotted around.
I’m thinking of ignoring Smart Parking letter and wait and see
what action they follow up with??
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: jfollows
Date: February 19, 2026, 4:32 am
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If you ignore Smart you will get letters from debt collectors
followed by a legal Letter of Claim.
If you appeal within their deadlines, they will reject your
appeal and allow you to appeal to the IAS who will also reject
your appeal, followed by debt collectors and a Letter of Claim.
In either case you will eventually need to file an appeal to a
court claim, so if you appeal now you have the basis for a
subsequent appeal and set out your position.
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 19, 2026, 4:40 am
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It would seem that both outcomes are the same?
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: jfollows
Date: February 19, 2026, 4:45 am
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> It would seem that both outcomes are the same?
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By appealing now you demonstrate that you have attempted to
avoid this going to court, even if your attempt is unsuccessful.
If you ignore, you can’t.
Hence why normal advice here is to follow the process rather
than ignore.
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Re: SMART PARKING - NOTICE TO KEEPER - PARKING CHARGE
DIR By: c4733
Date: February 19, 2026, 4:50 am
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But surely if my appeal gets rejected by every party they can
still take me to court, which is what DCB Legal did to me last
year when they sent me a letter for a similar thing but
different place?
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