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Hello,
I was passing through Wimbledon village around 9am. While sitting in my car I saw the Ringo parking code at eye level, I opened the app but it said no parking was applicable at that time. I looked up and saw parking was applicable from 10am. So I popped out for less than 10 minutes to pick up a prescription, came back and there was the fine. Took a close look at the very top of the sign column and saw reference to no parking. I hadn’t seen this while sitting in my car. With so many boards it does get a bit confusing. Do I have any chance to contest this successfully?
PCN and sign:

https://ibb.co/7J2mTB38
https://ibb.co/Q7vjVm0H
https://ibb.co/60v2RBWN

Google street view: https://maps.app.goo.gl/cMTaUCBLfNq9JHwE8
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While sitting in my car I saw the Ringo parking code at eye level,

Have you seen the council's evidence?

Your carvwas in the first parking space in a parking place.

10-month old GSV shows first traffic sign is in the fourth parking space and impossible to see or read from the first space.

The council's photos suggest that there's no traffic sign in the near vicinity of your car.
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The way I read your narrative is that you saw from Ringo that you couldn't start a parking session there. so you decided to chance your arm and parked anyway, but got a ticket. The sign is completely clear for me, but your narrative refers to this sign when you returned to the car. So, just as HCA asks, where did you see this from your car ? :-
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I looked up and saw parking was applicable from 10am.

Either way, at the moment, I don't see any credible appeal argument at the moment, but tell us more about the prescription and why the need for that prompted you to chance your arm.
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Hello,
I did park right next to the sign initially, then the car behind me moved away so I reversed a couple of spaces as it was closer to the pharmacy (call me lazy).
I honestly did not chance my arm, I genuinely didn't look up to the very top of the sign column when I parked, I just saw parking starts 10am and thought that was that. Popped in to the pharmacy to browse and pick up my thyroxine prescription as I had run out of supplies.
I am wiser than to risk any chances with London wardens, they're everywhere.

Five different related parking information boards on a single column!
1. Ringo sign with location number
2. A "30 minute free parking sign"
3. The largest one, designed to catch your eye, which is a 10am-4pm parking applies sign
4. A no loading sign, 10am-4pm
5. The no parking sign at the top, which I didn't see when looking through the passenger window from the driver side.

Five. And if information overload like that trips up me, a London resident, I can't imagine how confusing something like this might be to a non-native speaking tourist.
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OK, you missed the top sign but sign 3 says parking 10am - 4pm which you did see, but you parked before 10am regardless, (PCN says "observed 09.15).

The sign is completely legal IMHO, and follows the convention of the most restrictive sign at the top. This isn't the first case here where an OP claims not to have seen the "No Waiting" sign at the top, and I think it's because it is usually the only sign with no text on it, apart from the restricted times. It seems a lot of people don't know what the symbol means.
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