Go online and make representations again as follows:
Dear Essex County Council,
I refer you to my informal representations, which I require you to reconsider afresh.
Yours faithfully,
Is that it ?
Go online and make representations again as follows:
Dear Essex County Council,
I refer you to my informal representations, which I require you to reconsider afresh.
Yours faithfully,
The traffic order is The Essex County Council (Chelmsford City) (Prohibition of Waiting, Loading and Stopping) and (On-Street Parking Places) (Civil Enforcement Area) Consolidation Order 2019 (https://tro.trafficpenaltytribunal.gov.uk/TRO/Chelmsford/Consolidation-Order_-Chelmsford-2019.pdf) as varied by The Essex County Council (Chelmsford City) (Prohibition of Waiting, Loading and Stopping) and (On-Street Parking Places) (Civil Enforcement Area) (Amendment No.15) Order 2022 (https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1NeRMTnhDX8uYtGdd3EhQ6QC5JlExXOrT).
The location of the signage makes the contravention clear-cut, so at least that's out of the way. The fact that you might not have appreciated the meaning of the signs is obviously irrelevant, and they were quite close to your car so there's no obvious defence to the contravention.
The best argument I can see is around the wording of the PCN, which I would suggest is duplicitous, I would therefore suggest a representation as follows:
Dear Essex County Council,
I challenge liability for PCN XP16750516 on the basis of a procedural impropriety, namely that the PCN fails to adequately particularise the alleged wrongdoing. The wording of the penalty charge lists no less than 6 possible contraventions, and it is impossible to tell from the PCN what it is that I am alleged to have done.
In support of this, I refer you to the following decisions:
Andrew David Rush v London Borough of Southwark (2120562288, 05 January 2013): (link)
Natalie van Dijk v London Borough of Islington (2150275729, 23 September 2015): (link)
Marian Bostan v City of London (2170116728, 13 April 2017): (link)
In light of the above, the PCN must be cancelled.
Yours faithfully,
I will send you the links to be added to the representation by private message, do not click on the links.
The reason being that if by the time you get the rejection the click count is still zero, we can prove that they have failed to consider the representations.