"Bicycles will be removed" - legal?

@carson: Thanks very much for a considered opinion. It's somewhat unsatisfactory that this exists in a grey area. I'd love to see someone point out that bike parking in such circumstances is clearly wrong or right, either way.

Lobbying MPs, councils etc to get the rules clarified sounds like a great idea now they're more interested in supporting cyclists.

Afternoon! Maybe it would be good to start collecting data = case studies of fellow victims of fines, removals etc.
It would give us idea on numbers of cases, frequency of problems and maybe even a "chart" of the properties that cause us distress.

What do you think folks?