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There was a parking bay there but no longer in the traffic order. But there is extensive footway parking in the area although the bays do have parking signs.

But I'd say the exposed markings mislead and they have a duty to get rid of them permanently.

You can generally rely on the "old lags" at London Tribunals, but one or two of the newer adjudicators seem pretty poor, frankly. One of them has taken to quoting almost the whole law on what he as an adjudicator is allowed and not allowed to do, them comes up with a completely wrong decision.

The next stage is an NTO sent to the registered keeper, not the tribunal.

What have the double yellow lines to do with anything? There are visible double yellow lines on both sides of the road where there are "legitimate" parking bays (which also have the tiny sign below the time restrictions).

Perhaps the council tried to remove the double yellow lines here but gave up halfway through the process as well.

This picture is almost directly opposite where the car was parked and ticketed.

We've seen plenty of parking bays behind yellow lines - of course it's wrong but here the question is whether the driver was sufficiently misled for footway parking.

There are bays marked out either side (and where) she parked but there are no footway parking signs. There are zone parking signs and bays clearly marked out so I have no idea at this point whether the bays in cann hall road outside the Rookwood pub are legitimate bays or not - if they aren't then are you genuinely expected to check the relevant traffic order before parking to make sure it has statutory approval as a parking bay? What an absolute joke.

Your argument needs to change its focus IMO.

GSV shows significant parking on the footway on your side of the road both before and after your location. The markings are the same as where you parked. As importantly, not all of these locations carries a traffic sign, in fact the sequence is(and you can do the legwork):

O/s no. ***: parking place situated on the footway with a post but no traffic sign;
etc....to the places ahead of you.

The council's position is that the markings where you were parked did not indicate a parking place and in any event there was no traffic sign to indicate as such. However, to the motorist the complete hotch-potch of parking places with and without traffic signs on either side of your location shows that the council encourages and condones parking on the footway at locations which are not signed. In fact and in law, none of the parking places where the council bothers to maintain traffic signs is marked as prescribed. As the authority/adjudicator will know, the prescribed traffic sign incorporates the symbol of a car parked on the footway, but none of the parking places is signed in this way. Instead, there's a mix of traffic signs prescribed for parking on the carriageway with separate and non-prescribed 'footway parking' signs hanging underneath, to carriageway only traffic signs in parking places marked wholly on the footway to marked places without signs.

Motorists are not clairvoyant. They don't know (if indeed this is the case) that where I was parked wholly within markings is not a footway parking but instead is a deteriorating relic of an earlier time when it was.

Just some thoughts.