No End-of-Bay Line — Vehicle Was Within the Bay as Actually Marked
Where several bays run together, the law only recognises the bay as the markings actually laid on the road. If there is no transverse line marking the end of the bay, or no dividing lines between spaces, a long marked area is in law one continuous bay — and a vehicle anywhere inside its outline is parked within the markings. The council cannot invent bay boundaries that are not painted on the road.
Legal basis
TSRGD 2016 (SI 2016/362) Schedule 7 Part 4 items 6 and 8 (parking bays exist as the marking laid, diagrams 1028.4 and 1028.6); R (Herron) v Parking Adjudicator [2011] EWCA Civ 905 (motorist must be adequately informed of the restriction by what is on the ground)
How to identify this in your case
Were you ticketed for straddling two spaces or overhanging the 'end' of a bay where no painted line actually separates the spaces or closes the end of the bay? Photograph the full run of markings, showing where lines genuinely start, stop, and whether any dividing or end lines exist where the council claims you crossed one.
Sample appeal wording
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Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.
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