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Wimbledon village PCN - parking during loading/restricted hours
DIR By: IanO
Date: April 10, 2025, 4:10 pm
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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:
HTML https://ibb.co/7J2mTB38
HTML https://ibb.co/Q7vjVm0H
HTML https://ibb.co/60v2RBWN
Google street view:
HTML https://maps.app.goo.gl/cMTaUCBLfNq9JHwE8
#Post#: 66547--------------------------------------------------
Re: Wimbledon village PCN - parking during loading/restricted
hours
DIR By: H C Andersen
Date: April 10, 2025, 4:35 pm
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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.
#Post#: 66558--------------------------------------------------
Re: Wimbledon village PCN - parking during loading/restricted
hours
DIR By: fraser.mitchell
Date: April 10, 2025, 5:42 pm
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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 ? :-
--- Quote ---
> I looked up and saw parking was applicable from 10am.
--- End Quote ---
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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Re: Wimbledon village PCN - parking during loading/restricted
hours
DIR By: IanO
Date: April 11, 2025, 7:59 am
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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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Re: Wimbledon village PCN - parking during loading/restricted
hours
DIR By: fraser.mitchell
Date: April 11, 2025, 3:18 pm
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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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