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Cardiff Council — failure to comply with bilingual pay-and-display tariff signage

Cardiff Council holds bespoke Welsh Language Standards (Compliance Notice issued under s.44 of the 2011 Measure) requiring all on-street parking tariff information to be presented bilingually with Welsh given equal prominence. Tariff boards on RingGo zones, MiPermit signs, or Council-operated machines that show only English tariff text breach Cardiff's Standards and TSRGD 2016. The same issue commonly arises on contractor-installed signs in newly developed areas (Cardiff Bay, Central Quay).

Legal basis

Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 s.44; Cardiff Council Compliance Notice (Welsh Language Commissioner, 30 March 2016, as amended); TSRGD 2016 Sched 18 Pt 5

How to identify this in your case

Photograph the tariff board / pay-and-display sign at the point of contravention. Compare to Cardiff Council's published bilingual sign templates.

Sample appeal wording

Dear Sir/Madam, Re: PCN [PCN_NUMBER] — Cardiff Cardiff Council is bound by the Compliance Notice issued by the Welsh Language Commissioner under section 44 of the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011. Service Delivery Standards and Operational Standards in that notice require that signs and tariff information published by the Council be bilingual. The tariff board / sign at [LOCATION] which is the basis of the PCN displays only English text. Photographs are attached. This sign is non-compliant with Cardiff's Standards and is therefore not lawfully erected for the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 of the Traffic Management Act 2004. Please cancel the PCN. Yn gywir / Yours faithfully, [NAME]

Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.

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Sources

  • welshlanguagecommissioner.wales
  • cardiff.gov.uk
  • legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2011/1

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