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glentoran99
glentoran99 Posts: 5,821 Forumite
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Just checking that the person who drives my car can safely ignore the newly erected smart parking restrictions in the area which said person has been parking for a number of years.


They are from SMART parking and I am in NI, am I right in saying should PCN arrive to me the registered keeper I can safely use it to light the fire?

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  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Welll....you shouldn't deliberately keep parking somewhere knowing it has controls and ignoring them!!
  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    glentoran99 wrote: »
    Just checking that the person who drives my car can safely ignore the newly erected smart parking restrictions in the area which said person has been parking for a number of years.


    They are from SMART parking and I am in NI, am I right in saying should PCN arrive to me the registered keeper I can safely use it to light the fire?

    Don't really understand what you said but in NI, they need to
    know who the driver is before action but that will not stop
    them giving out invoices as they rely on ignorance from
    the motorist
    Smart know this already.
    If you can, tell everyone in this area the limitations of Smart
    in NI
  • glentoran99
    glentoran99 Posts: 5,821 Forumite
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    Quentin wrote: »
    Welll....you shouldn't deliberately keep parking somewhere knowing it has controls and ignoring them!!



    thanks for your useful advice, but not really what I asked
  • glentoran99
    glentoran99 Posts: 5,821 Forumite
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    beamerguy wrote: »
    Don't really understand what you said but in NI, they need to know who the driver is before action but that will not stop them giving out invoices as they rely on ignorance from the motorist
    Smart know this already.

    If you can, tell everyone in this area the limitations of Smart
    in NI



    Thank you, Confirms what I thought, That I can ignore anything I may receive.
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    glentoran99 wrote: »
    thanks for your useful advice, but not really what I asked

    Everyone is politely asked to read up in the Newbies faq thread near the top of the forum before starting a new thread.

    Ni residents are covered there.

    The advice is to complain to the retailer but don't appeal.

    Obviously don't burn any lbcca or court correspondence
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 41,336 Forumite
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    Is the car park in NI?
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

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  • glentoran99
    glentoran99 Posts: 5,821 Forumite
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    Umkomaas wrote: »
    Is the car park in NI?

    It is indeed
  • glentoran99
    glentoran99 Posts: 5,821 Forumite
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    Quentin wrote: »
    Everyone is politely asked to read up in the Newbies faq thread near the top of the forum before starting a new thread.

    Ni residents are covered there.

    The advice is to complain to the retailer but don't appeal.

    Obviously don't burn any lbcca or court correspondence





    Thank you.
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 41,336 Forumite
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    glentoran99 wrote: »
    It is indeed

    While we are not a forum that encourages fly parking, or parking against the wishes of the landowner (as described via the signage), your assumptions re NI are correct - at present. Who knows what the DCLG review of private parking might throw out for the UK.

    We see PPCs as operating on the edge of legality and decency, we encourage motorists not to follow suit.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Lamilad
    Lamilad Posts: 1,412 Forumite
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    I can safely use it to light the fire?
    Careful you don't get burnt!

    As above: PPCs cannot enforce parking charges against the keeper, in NI (just like in Scotland) if they don't know who was driving.

    That doesn't mean that militant parking won't come back to bite you on the ariss.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-39478203
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