Cardiff parking signs must show Welsh and English equally

Cardiff Council is legally required to display all parking tariff information in both Welsh and English, with neither language given less prominence than the other. This applies to RingGo zones, MiPermit signs, council-operated pay-and-display machines, and contractor-installed signs in newer areas such as Cardiff Bay and Central Quay. If the tariff sign where you parked showed only English, the sign may not meet Cardiff's legal requirements, which could make your ticket invalid.

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

Before you send this

Deadline. A late submission can be rejected 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.

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]

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Cardiff parking signs must show Welsh and English equally

Legal basis

How to identify this in your case

Sample appeal wording

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