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OP, the law in this case:

Traffic signs
18.—(1) Where an order relating to any road has been made, the order making authority shall take such steps as are necessary to secure—

.....that adequate information as to the effect of the order is made available to persons using the road;

With parking places the norm is that they are self-contained and that each sign conveys all the required info.

But this is not required by law i.e. the boundaries of adequate have been widened to include information which affects parking places being permitted to be displayed on CPZ entry signs where these exist.

You were parked within a CPZ whose signs would ordinarily have no effect on parking places within. Except that if 'event day' info was displayed prominently on each then this has been held to meet the test of 'adequacy'.

You do not need to know what is an 'event', this isn't your burden. The council must display adequate information which informs a motorist of 'event days' however 'event' is defined.

Hence why you are being asked about your route so that the signs you passed can be identified.

This is one of the signs at the entry into SNW

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VjzxW3BSrRzBcDDD7

OP, the law in this case:

Traffic signs
18.—(1) Where an order relating to any road has been made, the order making authority shall take such steps as are necessary to secure—

.....that adequate information as to the effect of the order is made available to persons using the road;

With parking places the norm is that they are self-contained and that each sign conveys all the required info.

But this is not required by law i.e. the boundaries of adequate have been widened to include information which affects parking places being permitted to be displayed on CPZ entry signs where these exist.

You were parked within a CPZ whose signs would ordinarily have no effect on parking places within. Except that if 'event day' info was displayed prominently on each then this has been held to meet the test of 'adequacy'.

You do not need to know what is an 'event', this isn't your burden. The council must display adequate information which informs a motorist of 'event days' however 'event' is defined.

Hence why you are being asked about your route so that the signs you passed can be identified.

thanks! i do not see any sign showing there are any events on my route to Chandos road, does that mean it is likely to be the council's shortcoming in providing inadequate sinage?

thanks! i do not see any sign showing there are any events on my route to Chandos road, does that mean it is likely to be the council's shortcoming in providing inadequate sinage?

No. Sorry to be harsh but much more likely it's your failing.

You passed these signs on Leyton Road.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/xbNPohQVbEKh2uTB8

I'm not aware that Newham have ever evidenced any event zone entrance signage, but let's start with the basics: where exactly did you cross the zone boundary? - CP8759

@cp8759

Please see my post Reply#4 above yours.

A partial answer is here

https://www.ftla.uk/civil-penalty-charge-notices-(councils-tfl-and-so-on)/parking-contravention-(chandos-road-residential-parking)-newham-pcn-need-help-on/msg25739/#msg25739

https://www.ftla.uk/civil-penalty-charge-notices-(councils-tfl-and-so-on)/parking-contravention-(chandos-road-residential-parking)-newham-pcn-need-help-on/

Another reminder of the forum rules is needed.

@Vince138 I have now merged your threads, if you start another one about the same PCN I'm just going to delete it so please do not do that again. You may want to just bookmark this thread, I also suggest when you next reply you tick the "Notify me of replies" option under "Attachments and other options".

Anyway, the PCN appears to be because you were parked in a bay on an event day, and the posts above suggest you passed these signs: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xbNPohQVbEKh2uTB8

To my recollection, Newham have never been able to substantiate at adjudication that these signs were displaying the relevant event days were displayed on the zone entry signs.

It would be helpful if you could go back and get us some updated photos of those signs.

thanks a lot for your reply, i think i might have indeed passed this control point as Neil B has pointed out:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/xbNPohQVbEKh2uTB8

however that is still quite far from Chandos road, am i wrong in thinking that the council should have put up the event information signage on Chandos road itself?

also i really cannot remember seeing any event date signage at the control point but i could be wrong....not sure how to go back and check 11th June