We were issued a PCN for supposedly parking in the Electric Mountain Car Park in Llanberis. We weren't parked, we just drove into the car park, realised it wasn't the one we wanted and drove out again, into the car park opposite. According to their cameras it took us 35 minutes to do this. We got home from holiday and then received a PCN, all in Welsh!!!We appealed to Initial Parking. Within 24 hours they had rejected the appeal and didn't address our question about it being in Welsh. We then appealed to POPLA, the independent adjudicator, and we WON. This was their response:The burden of proof lies with the operator to prove that this PCN was issued correctly. POPLA's remit is to assess whether a PCN has been issued correctly, in accordance with the terms and conditions of parking displayed on the signage at a site. In this case the operator submitted a copy of a PCN which is only displayed in the Welsh Language. I cannot from this determine the reason for issue. It is within the operator’s gift to provide POPLA and the motorist with a copy of a PCN in English to fully entitle both parties to understand why the contravention occurred. Due to this, I am unable to assess the validity of the charge and therefore I cannot consider it was issued incorrectly and allow this appeal.So if you get a PCN in Welsh appeal it. It will only cost you a bit of your time, not £100 which they are trying to scam from you.
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