PCN Code 21R (Suspended Bay) Lewisham, Challenge Code 21R? Options

[Tranmere Bob]

I have received a PCN from NSL on behalf of Lewisham Council.
The street I park on is Sunninghill Rd and I have a valid permit for it.
The road is a cul-de-sac and popular with shoppers on Sundays when parking restrictions are not in force.
As such it's pot luck where you find a spot to park.
A few days after parking I returned to my vehicle and found two PCNs on the window (one of which has subsequently been withdrawn).
For the other NSL have rejected my claim providing a photograph of a sign (which is very nearly illegible being in a low resolution format, and doesn't show my
vehicle), which is positioned outside number 10 Sunninghill Rd, a full 20 metres away from where I had parked my car.
There is clearly, visible obstruction from bushes to the front of number 10, which I had to drive passed until I reached the spot where I could park.
I reversed parked from a starting position roughly outside house numbers 20/18.
Having no reason to suspect any signage had been set up, and having a valid permit, I wasn't looking out for any notice.
I believe that it is unreasonable to consider that there was sufficient visible signage warning of a parking bay suspension.

Do I have any challenge on these grounds?
I have tried to check if the sign complies with regulations but have not had much luck finding ino.

Any help would be gratefully received

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[cp8759]

Read this http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=125502 then update your opening post accordingly.

[Tranmere Bob]

Sorry - PCN attached

[cp8759]

As per the advice on that thread, we need a link to the location on google street view, + all the council photos.

[Tranmere Bob]

Please see attached the PCN I received, the two pics the council have presented (this is the quality I received them and I have no way of enhancing them).
Google link to Sunninghill Rd SE13

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4667991,-...6384!8i8192

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[Mad Mick V]

Well if an adjudicator cannot read the terms and conditions of the suspension sign they lose.

You have two courses of action:-

1) Do nothing and hope they don't have a better photo;

2) If the sign is no longer there, get back on to them and say you believe you weren't in the area suspended and that you need a close up photo of the suspension sign to determine whether to pay or defend the PCN.

Wait for others to comment.

Mick

[cp8759]

Or just check if the sign is still there. If it is, take a picture and post it on here.

If it's gone, I would email them and ask for a better quality picture.

[Tranmere Bob]

Just realised there was a slightly clearer one sent for the second PCN (now cancelled)

It reads as follows,

Monday 19th
November 2018
to
Thursday 22nd
November 2018
08.30 To 18.00
Outside 14 - 20
On
Sunninghill Road
Water Works

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[cp8759]

They're not going to use the photo from a different PCN though.