This is a mixture of crap cycle facilities and people who park like fuds.
The lane is all over 2m long (although it leads to a shared use footway) but is often used as a teeny parking bay.
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Remember this one, from a couple of years back? I went past it yesterday, on the way to and from the optician. Here's what was parked there on the way there:

Then this was there on the way back:

It looks like the bollard in the original link has been replaced with one that doesn't have a magic cycle path sign on it, which makes it just fine to park there. Obvs.
(How can people think that represents a parking bay? Car shaped, yes, but with Give Way lines each end. Twats.)