Okay, so I got a ticket for parking near PizzaExpress on Holyrood Road.

But I decided to argue the ticket on the grounds that there are supposed to be "... large, prominent signs at all
entrances to the controlled zones" (see picture below)

Edinburgh Council Parking people will not budge and I continue to see car after car lifted from this are. There aren't any legal requirements to have signs beside single yellow lines, but given that I didn't think I was in the Central Controlled Zone I figured Saturday afternoon would be fine... As did the ten or more other car drivers who got ticketed with mine.

Image of the entrance to the Central Controlled Zone at Holyrood Gait

.... Can you read the sign?