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I've appealed to tribunal, will ping back here when it's all over.

Notice of rejection received see PDF here

I do genuinely feel that local authorities around SW London are increasingly monetising local street traffic restrictions and this is a prime example, "no through road" signs but then through-access appears to be available as opposed to road being blocked at one end, many tens of thousands spent on PCN enforcement equipment as opposed to spending on helping motorists to be aware of potential issues ahead, no reasonable understanding that restrictions take time to be assimilated ( ie, get out of jail once card for first offence at a particular new enforcement ), there are many may ways to do stuff like this LTN without burning motorists so fiercely.

Is there a direction to appeal this one further that has reasonable grounds for success?

Ah yes, the one you don't see until you are on it and it's too late to do anything about it !

GSV is too out-of-date at the site, but if you got to High Path from the turn in from Meruntun Way, there is this sign, did you not notice it, plus the blue sign alongside it:-
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Dmdncgc8wXhU65o76

I'm not sure how the other threads have got on. There might be a 'technical' appeal based on Merton mismanagement of the enforcement process, so wait and see if 'Hippocrates' posts here. Such appeals are inevitably dealt with at London Tribunals with the full PCN penalty in play. Nothing to pay if you win, of course, and there are no additional costs just the PCN penalty if you lose.

If the yellow "closed" and blue "no-through-road" signs were present as per your pic then I would have seen and read them, I would have had no idea what roads were Abbey or Pincott though, there are plety other roads in there between Merton High St and Merantun Way (been looking athet gmaps, know all the road names now!). My reasons for using this road in the past were when visiting Harris Academy School, never needed to be aware of the road names in the area. I can only suppose my brain would have been thinking "yellow closed road = contruction, hope it's not the road I want to use" and "the road I going down isn't a cul de sac, should be OK" (which sort of begs the question, why aren't there bollards to make a cul de sac?).

Are either of these signs advance warning of vehicle-type restrictions?