PCN - Hackney Event Day Restrications

I got a PCN during an event day as I was parked during the extended period (up to 8:30pm vs the normal 6:30pm). I usually park on this spot as I have dance lessons from 5:30pm on a nearby studio, so I always buy a parking ticket via RingGo app to park from 5:30-6:30pm, and this day was no different.

I was expecting a signage specifying when the next event day is (having parked on streets around the Emirates/Arsenal stadium where bays are marked clearly as Zone G, Zone G2, Zone M, etc.) as per the guidelines on Hackney's website here:

Given the distance from Arsenal stadium (around 1 mile), I never associated this parking spot with football matches, and I expected that the signage would be clear(it does not even specify what zone it is in) if there is an event going on (since it's in such an obscure area). I know there's a number at the bottom of the signage to call a number for events information that I should have bothered to check everytime I parked there.

Do I have grounds to contest this? Or is this a case of, "should have read the signs properly and gave the events information number a call"

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Is the location within a controlled parking zone?

Hackney doesn't put its zone letters on street signs (unlike Islington). But like all such event zones they put next event days on the zone entry signs.
These entry signs control only yellow lines though and some boroughs provide inadeqate parking bay signage (eg Newham) but Hackney's bay signs are much better in signing the times when event days operate and crucially there is the number to call on those small signs although these can go missing or not have been put up.

Arsenal had a home game on 1 April so I think you'll find it hard to challenge this.

Thank you all - in that case, I will put this up to experience and in the future check the football scores whilst I'm at it.

They've divided zone M into two and the boundary is Clissold Road, where you parked. So roads east of there were OK after 6.30pm.

Is the location within a controlled parking zone?

As far as I'm aware, there are no signage (example that stamfordman showed) to say it is a controlled zone on both the north and south entrance for Clissold road.

And a bit more context, I was driving from Green Lanes ( a non controlled area) turning into Stoke Newington Church Street, which as shown on the map is the start of Zone M and there's absolutely no signage at all at the entrance of this controlled zone area (or anywhere along this road leading up to Clissold Road).


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You can see the zone entry sign in your last pic. Here's a close up.

Ahh I completely missed that. Thanks!