The complete absence of blue signs.

It is illegal to cycle on pavements in the UK - so the onus is very much on those who claim that cycling is allowed to provide evidence. You cannot simply assume that cycling is allowed because it intersects with other ways where cycling is designated. You have to map what is there on the ground, rather than what you think ought to be.

In this case it is particularly clear that not only is the pavement not signed for shared use, but not designed for that purpose either. Just compare the obvious differences to the clearly signed and surfaced shared use pavement on the other side of the road. This is most obvious at the approach the fairly recently reconstructed junction with the Bay Gateway. Here the pavements have been newly designed and constructed for their purpose. You can see that the pavement on the NE side of the road has been constructed to the minimum standard (at the time) for unsegregated shared use (3m), while the pavement on the SW side is designed to minimum footway width (1.8m). 
