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That is good evidence of their mendacious behaviour. There does not appear to have ever been an entrance sign at this location. If there is one now, take a photo of it.

They will be required to provide evidence of an entrance sign at the location prior to the date of the alleged contravention. As can be seen in GSV, there was no sign in place in March 2023 and no sign ij place on the date you took your photos.

This one will be easy to challenge in a claim and it will be interesting to see whether BW Legal are prepared to let their client take this all the way to a hearing, where they will be in danger of a spanking and a cost order for unreasonable behaviour.

I can't believe how any reasonable person from the IAS dismissed the appeal in the first place!

That is just BW Legal acting as a useless debt collector. They will eventually issue an LoC and then a claim. However, for now, you do not need to respond to that letter. When they issue an LoC, let us know and we will provide a suitable response.

I am assuming that the photos you showed us of the car park with no entrance sign are yours. If so, keep them as valuable evidence. Also, you need to extract the metadata and get those photos timestamped with that data. No entrance sign is a clear breach of the CoP and means that no contract cold have been formed with you (the driver, which should never have identified).

Also, do you have the correspondence where they admit that the signs were not there due to vandalism? That is also crucial evidence.

Also, you need to get a close up photo of the sign they say forms the contract. We need to see the wording on it to evaluate if it is even capable of forming a contract.

Will send picture of LOC when received.

The photos are mine. I took them the day I was doing the appeal which was after I received the ticket. I have got the metadata and they're timestamped in and around  23 August 2025 19:11:32.

I'll attach a closer picture of the signs when I'm next there.

But even on google streetview, there are no entrance signs visible. I've attached screenshots of May 2023 and October 2022 from google streetview (latest dates available).

https://ibb.co/sdmCzNy7

https://ibb.co/tPw3s67y


I have attached the response by the operator which I've screen shot from the IAS appeal. It clearly shows that they admit the signs were not there due to vandalism. Suggesting it was the driver that caused this.

https://ibb.co/GvtK2HWs


I've also attached the PDF of the operators proof - which does not include any pictures of the entrance signs.


https://ibb.co/G3JVNcgY

Thank you

Hi there,

Just posting this letter I received in the post before I receive the inevitable Letter of Claim they have now threatened to send.




https://ibb.co/VdVHRXD

If you need advice then you must submit your evidence here such as photos of the signage and views of the car park.

The original PPN etc.

Has the drivers ID been given?

Yes it has.

Good afternoon,

I received a PCN for parking in Bute Street Cardiff in August.

There was no signage on entry to the space, no signage showing that the space was a private car park or any car parking pay stations anywhere.

There was only small warning private land signs on the walls far from where I parked my vehicle that was pointed out by the operator during the appeal service - but it is incredibly small and obscured by other vehicles as shown by the operators first response to the appeal (attached).



I went through several rounds of an appeal and evidence sharing through the IAS appeal service. But the appeal was later dismissed. I feel not any of my evidence or grounds for appeal were considered.

I have now received a £100 fine from Link Parking (attached).





I have since searched online and have found that the IAS sides with most car parking operators, which I feel is incredibly unfair.

During one of appeal rounds, the operator had stated that the car park did have entry signs and had since been vandalised - which is untrue and I have proved it with photographs and google street view - linked in my PDF appeal letter and evidence (attached)





PDF


Please let me know what my next steps can be.

I can attached any and all of the operator and adjudicators responses if it helps.

Thank you