PCN describes the wrong or vague location

A parking charge notice must state the specific place where your vehicle was parked. If the location shown on the notice is not where you actually parked, or the description is so vague that it could apply to several different places, the notice is defective and may not be valid.

Legal basis

POFA 2012 Schedule 4 Paragraph 9(2)(a) - notice must specify 'the relevant land on which it was parked'.

How to identify this in your case

Check the location/address on the PCN against where you actually parked. Look for discrepancies.

Sample appeal wording

Before you send this

Deadline. A late submission can be turned down without your argument being read. Check your notice for the deadline and how it is counted.
Paying may end it. Paying can count as accepting the notice and can close a challenge already under way. Part-paying or acknowledging an old debt can also revive a time limit that had expired.
The amount can change. Check what happens to the sum if you challenge — it may be held, re-offered lower, or keep rising, and fees or enforcement can continue meanwhile.
Use the official route. Use the method, recipient and form your notice specifies, with any reference, evidence and signature it asks for. Sent elsewhere, it may not count.
Only say what is true. Do not copy any statement of fact unless it is true for you, and check the legal point still applies. Delete what does not fit. It may be treated as your statement.
Careful what you volunteer. Avoid unnecessary admissions — naming the driver or accepting responsibility can remove arguments. But answer anything you are legally required to answer, and do include the evidence your ground needs.
Keep the record. Keep what you sent, the attachments, any receipt, and the reply. Note the next deadline.

Sample wording to adapt and send yourself — it may not fit your notice or the stage you are at. Replace the bracketed prompts with your own details; leave any case citation as it is.

The Notice to Keeper identifies the location as [LOCATION ON PCN]. I have never parked at this location. My vehicle was parked at [CORRECT LOCATION] on the date in question. This is either operator error or evidence that the ANPR system has failed. Either way, the PCN is issued in error.

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PCN describes the wrong or vague location

Legal basis

How to identify this in your case

Sample appeal wording

Beat It writes this argument automatically

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