This is where I’d have parked. And I did, a bit further round. And I got a parking ticket for my troubles.
Parking on this estate is now protected with residents’ permits. On the road I parked on, there was one sign saying “Permit holders only during events” or something similar, on the other side of the road to where I was parked. There was nothing the length of the road on the side I parked – I walked it end to end before I parked there. I’ve been ticketed for “parking in a permit bay” – there’s no bay markings, or indeed parking restrictions or any road markings beyond white lines in front of driveway exits – at all.
I shall be contesting this I fear, due to inadequate signage. The whole estate had been ticketed, loads of people got caught. Nice little earner for the local council.
I sympathise with the residents, it must be a ballache for them. But one poxy sign on the other side of the road saying something wooly about events (where? who knows) isn’t good enough.