You weren't in a bay, but on the double-red lines adjacent to the bay. As it's a no-stopping contravention, you'll struggle to get this PCN overturned, I'm afraid.
I don't think that's right, Mr Justice Swift said at para 17 of his judgment (https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2023/2889.pdf) that:
The starting point for the adjudicators' apparent conclusion that this was so, was that there was an error in the definition in regulation 11(2) of the 2022 Regulations because the drafting rested on a misunderstanding of the meaning of its predecessor in the 2007 Regulations, as amended (i.e., regulation 9A(7) in the 2007 Regulations, set out above at paragraph 12). That rested on the view that the definition as stated in regulation 9A(7) of the 2007 Regulations had distinguished between roads with double red lines (Diagram 1018.2 at paragraph 6 above) and roads with single red lines (Diagram 1017.1, also at paragraph 6 above), and only applied the requirement for a sign to the latter and not the former. That view is wrong and would itself depend on an argument that the definition inserted into the 2007 Regulations itself contained a drafting error insofar as it had omitted a comma (after the words "diagram 1018.2 at item 11"). There is no reason to think that the definition inserted into the 2007 Regulations should be understood in this way. It should be understood as enacted: i.e. that the signage requirement applied regardless of whether the road was marked with a double red line or a single red line. There is nothing inherently illogical or obviously wrong with the position that the signage requirement should apply regardless of whether the red line was single red line or a double red line. Since that is so, the suggestion that the definition of red route in regulation 11(2) of the 2022 Regulations itself contained an error, or for that matter perpetuated some previous error in the Regulations as they were in force from June 2020, is baseless. The court can only be concerned with obvious drafting errors in the sense explained by Lord Nicholls in his speech in Inco Europe Ltd v First Choice Distribution [2000] 1WLR 586 at page 592 C-H. There is no such error in the definition of red route, whether one looks at the definition put into the 2007 Regulations with effect from June 2020, or the definition at regulation 11(2) of the 2022 Regulations. It follows that the correct conclusion is that the definition of red route requires that both condition (a) and condition (b) are met.
In this case condition (b) is not met because there is no evidence of an upright sign, so as far as the High Court is concerned there is no power to serve a postal penalty charge notice in these circumstances. It follows that service of a postal penalty charge notice is a procedural impropriety.
@sktm1 you will have seen my PM but I'm posting on here for the benefit of all members.