Smart Parking/DCBL claim Form insufficient paid time

Marcus12b

Hi
I was here some years ago and I'm back here and can only thank you again. I'm here are people out there out of there goodwill nature helping others in there time of need with advice and guidance. I'm sure everyone on these forums that post threads will agree and many thanks regardless.


So I have been given a PCN at lower Parliament Street Nottingham 22/05/2021
Reason insufficient paid time.

Issue date was 18th August
I did the AOS on the 23rd August 

Long story short a few years ago when I got the first PC, I was rather peed off because I had damn trouble on that day parking. 
What I did was sent Smart Parking a challenge online against that PCN.
In this I explained it was a nice day car park near full and there was a space in the far corner against the wall took few minutes.
After parking went to pay but I didn't have change so I tried ringing ringo and it kept disconnecting I sent them screenshots of this.
I tried downloading the app and this was getting frustrating to register etc and I wasn't getting very far with it. There was no method to pay with debit card
I then had to go few shops down and buy a drink to get change and come back pay at the meter etc.
There was no one on site to assist, the signage are very poor

The issue is It was 13.12 I paid for the ticket for 2 hours
I left the car park 15.11 so within 2 hours

In 2022 I asked sar back then to Smart parking
They got me on camera entering on Anpr camera 12.57 and leaving 15.11
So there's 14 minutes here 

When I did challenge them about the above and what happened bear in mind I had my son who would of been 2 at the time this though I should of wrote in the challenge also but I really didn't expect it come to this point
Anyway they said this that there "payment system confirms that there was no payment made for your vehicle registration for the 133 minutes the vehicle was on site. The signage blah blah"

They did put down at that point appeal to popla etc, it wasn't pursued any further 

So this claim Form however they stated insufficient paid time.

Can I use the above in my defence in paragraph 2 and 3 when I write up the defence using template from newbie thread or not because it's contradicting each other.

Thanks

1505grandad

"When I did challenge them about the above and what happened............."

Just checking  -  seems you have outed the RK as the driver?

Car1980

The issue is It was 13.12 I paid for the ticket for 2 hours
I left the car park 15.11 so within 2 hours

So just say this in your paragraph 3. They'll discontinue anyway.

Marcus12b

The Anpr camera has me entering car park at 12.57 the ticket was paid at 13:12 I left the car park 15:11 so they have me as 133 minutes in the car park which is what they put in the challenge I did but in that challenge they stated I never paid for the 133 minutes I was there

Gr1pr

Just look at recent Smart Parking defence paragraphs 2 , 3 and 4 of an 11 or 12 paragraph defence and adapt those to suit your case,  then post the proposed draft below

Coupon-mad

Gr1pr said:

Just look at recent Smart Parking defence paragraphs 2 , 3 and 4 of an 11 or 12 paragraph defence and adapt those to suit your case,  then post the proposed draft below

I've seen at least 6 other Smart claim cases this morning alone. However it looks like the OP admitted to driving when appealing so that bins the usual POFA point.