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The Greenwich (Charged-For Parking Places) Order 2018

Has the following relevant section on suspended bays, given the suspension reason was defined as "works" on the suspension notice:


(3) Any person duly authorised by the Council or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
may suspend the use of a parking place or any part thereof whenever he considers such suspension
reasonably necessary:

(b) for the purpose of any building operation, demolition or excavation adjacent to or in the
near vicinity of the parking place, the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of
the highway or the cleaning of gullies in or adjacent to or in the near vicinity of the
parking place, the laying, ****, alteration or repair in or adjacent to or in the near
vicinity of the parking place of any sewer or of any main, pipe or apparatus for the
supply of gas, water or electricity or of any electronic communications network or the
placing, maintenance or removal of any traffic sign;


(5) On the suspension of the use of a parking place or any part thereof in accordance with the
provisions of this Article, the person authorising or causing such suspension shall place or cause to be
placed in or adjacent to that parking place or that part thereof, as the case may be, a traffic sign indicating
that waiting by vehicles is prohibited:



I await the actual TMO. But it seems that from the above the council have not shot themselves in the foot by requiring a compliant warning sign - which does not exist. See London Borough of Camden Case No. : 2090523567 link above - but simply a  "traffic sign indicating that waiting by vehicles is prohibited".

As the same case also says:

In cases of bay suspensions I and many other adjudicators have taken the view that provided the Council can prove that the bay was lawfully authorised for suspension, and that there was a sign or signs properly sited which gave a clear indication of that fact, the motorist parking there will be in contravention.