Council Parking Ticket issued while parked on private property NSW

[Tim W]

...the privately owned land is a footpath by virtue it being a road related area.

Rather the opposite.
I'd be arguing that it's a road related area because it's a footpath.
I'd be arguing that it's a footpath because it's open to pedestrians.
Open? Yes, because it's unfenced/ ungated, and
there are no signs (put up by anyone) saying anything like "No walking here"
The thing it is expressly not open to to the public for, is parking.

 

[Rod]

TimW has good points in that road rules do not explicitly state they only apply to public land.

However, the other argument you make is that you are not a driver. The driver definition excludes riders of motorbikes.