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Please post a GSV link to the location, and tell us exactly where you were parked. A restriction sign on the opposite side of a street only applies to the side it is located. I also see no kerb 'blips' on your photos, which are mandatory if a loading restriction is applied.

I can't, Google didn't even survey the road past that area for some reason which is why I had to use Bing street view instead for the image.
I am parked in the top right corner by the black door as you can sort of see from the small council image, if you mean the two short yellow lines marked vertically all along the area, no there aren't any.

Here's the no-loading blips on the kerb.

I think it's a simple case that you parked on the pavement, albeit a wide area, but still covered by the parking/loading restriction of the nearby road.


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Except how can the DYLs and kerb blips apply to the area on the other side of the low wall ? Surely there should be another sign banning footway parking ? An interesting case about signage and what it covers.

Yellow lines ban footway parking right up to the property boundary. There's no exemption for low walls, fences, plant pots, bollards, armco barriers or the like. You could park in some ludicrous locations if there was.

Thanks for replies but still unsure where to go with this at the moment, can anyone definitively confirm if this signage is in breach of regs?

The sign is not in breach of regs, the argument is whether it applies to where you parked. It applies to the carriageway up to the low wall most definitely. I think the wide paved area is doubtfull, but as you can see Grant Urismo disagrees.  You'd only get that tested at the Traffic Penalty Tribunal with the full PCN penalty in play.

You were either trespassing, because it's not land over which the public has a right to pass, or you were within the scope of the waiting restriction, because it's part of the road.

We're not concerned with the former.

So, would an adjudicator find that this land is part of a road?

Frankly, with no current or historical evidence (in particular GSV) who knows?

My view is that it would be considered to be part of the road.

You could request the council-with their Highway Authority hat on- to provide you with a copy of the highway terrier for the location as this would at least establish whether they maintain the area.

I don't think searching by name nails it, after all we know that Shude is public highway. The question is a different one i.e. is where you parked considered to be within the boundaries of the highway?

As regards the sign, if the edge of the carriageway is marked by DYL and double kerb blips then the sign is redundant and adds nothing to the markings themselves which on their own convey the 24/7 no waiting and no loading restrictions. But it being there when not needed would not be a defence.

And as I've posted, the upright traffic sign is redundant if the edge of the carriageway has DYL and double kerb blips because these, even to the average road user, should convey 24/7 no waiting and no loading.