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Quote from: Londoner2k on December 15, 2024, 10:50:22 pm

Quote from: Incandescent on December 15, 2024, 10:31:09 pm

Better if you'd told us earlier that there was a suspension sign was right by your car. A quick read shows that it does, indeed cover the bay where you parked.

"All parking bays from outside 8 (no. to the junction with Kestrel Avenue on Shardcroft Avenue"

Seems pretty clear to me it covered your bay.

However, the key question is, was the sign there when you parked on the 12th Dec

I apologise, for not putting the picture at the start.

But outside 8 (no. 8 ) is where the arrow in red starts in one of the picture above, I am parked outside 8A.
There is space for 2 bays outside 8A, then there is a gap, then then number 8 (10, 12 and so on towards Kestrel Avenue)

Imagine a sign being posted on number 1, but the sign itself says from outside 2.

"All parking bays outside No 8, so this includes where you parked, surely ?
Anyway, not me to judge; you have the absolute right in law to take them all the way to London Tribunals.

GSV shows where you parked is a separate bay with its own sign, then there is a gap for the gated entrance into a property. Then there is a second bay after that with its own sign.
This GSV view shows the two bays and the two signs.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/TUobNzd5a8XbbReG6
So if they wanted to suspend the bay you were in, they are required to place a suspension sign on the sign for your bay. From your narrative, they did not do this.

So you need to now submit an informal challenge on the basis that the contravention did not occur, because the bay you parked in had no suspension sign.