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In particular we need to see the notice.

A couple of initial observations:

• The signage that you have shown us (apart from being crap), appears to belong to a different company than the one that has issued the charge. The charge you have shown us is from CPM, the signage refers instead to 'Car Parking Partnership'. A look on Google Streetview shows CPM signage further into the car park, but the signage near where your car was parked would neither be suitable to draw the driver's attention to the need to look for other signage, nor capable of forming a contract between the driver and CPM (not least because it bears the name of a different company!).
• From what you have shown us, it's not entirely clear whether your car was parked beyond that sign or not. The main part of Strafford Street is listed as a public highway according to the Tower Hamlets Highway Register. With this in mind, it may be worth enquiring with the council as to where exactly the boundary is between the public highway and the private land.

If you go onto the CPM website and enter the details on your notice, are there any other photos available?

The driver was parked on a single yellow at the entrance of the private land on 17th November 21:42. The sign displayed at the entrance was dirty, bent and is from a different parking company, CPP. The sign which they have provided as photographic evidence is further down the road attached to a gate on the pavement on the side which was unlit in the dark. I have appealed on these terms already that the sign was further down and unlit but they have responded with a rejection and completely ignoring everything I said. I have attached everything in the images.

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The sign you’ve circled in blue on the GSV image, is that the CPM sign or the ECP one? What date is that GSV image from?

I have merged this with your existing topic on the same case. Do not start multiple threads for the same case.

im not sure what ecp is.

That looks to be at the entrance to the road, and is what I was referring to in my bullet points in an earlier reply. At a guess, CPM have come in to replace a previous operator, and clearly done a shoddy job of replacing the signs.