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Post the PCN, no redactions.

England played Latvia at Wembley on Monday so I think you may be stuffed with this but as a local you could try discretion.
It was an evening match so enforcing not long after 10am is rather mean.

If you weren't in what is clearly a bay there may be something here such as wrong contravention.

It's a controlled zone so everything must be a yellow line or parking bay (bar bus stops etc).

If it looks like a bit of unrestricted kerbside then you could say there is no contravention.

Take some pics of where you parked.

GSV isn't much help.

From what I can see, it's a Restricted Parking Zone, hence no yellow lines anywhere. But this is not the issue.

In order for the contravention to hold, you had to be parked within a marked parking place. The sign is not pertinent at this stage. The order is:

Road marking, then
Traffic sign.

Within a RPZ, no road marking = no contravention of this type.

OP, where were you parked? The PCN gives 'OP5', is this a reference to a property number or what?

The aerial view suggests that every length of street has a marking where one is required e.g. bus stop, zebra crossing, parking place etc. The only lengths not marked are dropped footways(vehicle access and pedestrian) and the configuration of the footway slabs adjacent to your car suggests this is where you were parked. If so, this is a 24/7 contravention. If you were(in order to avoid marked bays) then don't repeat, you could be towed away.

More info pl.

 

Hi,

The section I parked - the beginning of the Dollis Hill Road has a single yellow and then no markings, which is a space for 2-3 cars then the bus stop. This is always full of cars everyday.

I parked there because it was available, not to avoid any restrictions. I usually move the car to another street on Event Days, but missed this date. 

OP5 - I do not know what this is referencing.  The stretch of road is in front of a church, no houses until after the bus bay.

So parking in a non-marked bay is a contravention?

Many thanks!

I've no idea what a Permit [Waiting] Zone is.

It's not a specified traffic sign.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/schedule/5/made

And it's contradictory i.e. the blue and red symbol indicates that the sign regulates waiting whereas 'Permit' refers to parking places.

It's a sort of reverse permit parking zone seems to me - usually signed bays are exemptions to permit parking, which is on unmarked kerbsides.

Here if there is no marked bay where the OP was maybe we can argue the correct contravention should have been an 01.