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Hi all, I got a parking ticket today (Sunday 6th October, 10:37am) for parking on a single yellow line in Golders Green, Barnet, London with the offence listed as "01 Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours".

The issue is that I don't think there is any sign at all saying what times you are allowed to park there - even after I got the ticket I searched high and low and found nothing! Nothing on street posts, nothing on the wall, nothing at the entrance to the road.

The exact location was outside 104 Hodford Rd, London NW11 8EG and can be seen here, in front of the tree in the centre of this link:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5715459,-0.1968477,3a,75y,169.44h,73.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spOCyo7LT3XQyiInXV8hd5A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwMi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

with the entrance to the road, here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5719838,-0.1966014,3a,75y,201.2h,86.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqfR1l3c1PpvPhJwfHqKehw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwMi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Here is a link to the ticket itself:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UNDVgdE2G-J_ItfTNT8RmKLJusp32nJd/view

Could someone advise me if I have missed something here (hopefully a walk around google street view will help diagnose) and if I have grounds for appeal?

Thank you in advance.

Please read the READ THIS FIRST - **BEFORE POSTING YOUR CASE!** sticky post at the top of the forum and then post up al of the PCN.

This road purports to be in a controlled parking zone. The operational hours are on the zone entrances.

Sorry, I meant to say zone entrances.

One of the zone entrances seems to be at the other end of Hodford Road from where you parked. The sign is on the right and it shows the controlled hours to be Mon-Sat 8am-6:30pm & Sunday 9:30am-6:30pm. There is also a sign on the left side of the road, Hours are Mon-Fri 11am-Midday. This sign seems to have been rotated so probably facing the wrong way. However that's GSV from June 2022 and may not be current.

The signs above, you posted a link to, are a prohibition on buses, except local buses. That's what the sign on the left just before the bus stop means. The also a no bus sign on the right of the road which doesn't have the local bus exception, at least on GSV, for some reason.

However the bus signs are of no relevance to you. There must be more CPZ entrance signs situated before the Hodford Road / Golder's Green Road junction. I'd say it's all too confusing, there should be zone repeater signs with the hours on the affected streets. See what others have to say.

If that's the case, then I'm sure there will be a sign somewhere, but is that reasonable and expected, especially for a non Barnet resident, to know that a sign would be streets away and to go looking for it that far?

If that's the case, then I'm sure there will be a sign somewhere, but is that reasonable and expected, especially for a non Barnet resident, to know that a sign would be streets away and to go looking for it that far?

The point is that in order to park where you did, you would have had to pass one of the zone entrance signs. For large zones the recommendation is that repeater signs are used inside the zone, but it's not obligatory.
Clearly if zone entrance signs are damaged or missing, one has the basis for an appeal.

you can't rely on Google maps for signage as the images maybe old and not representative of the current situation which is the salient point