OK. I am off to bed. The sign is rubbish - they should not be enforcing this location and the PCN does not satisfy 3(2)(b)(ii) of the Appeals Regulations in my view.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/34...gulation/3/made(2) A penalty charge notice served under regulation 9 of the General Regulations
must, in addition to the matters required to be included in it under paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the General Regulations,
include the following information—
(ii)but that, if a notice to owner is served notwithstanding those representations, representations against the penalty charge must be made in the form and manner and at the time specified in the notice to owner.Re the sign:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/24...ulation/18/made18.—(1) Where an order relating to any road has been made, the order making authority shall take such steps as are necessary to secure—
(a)before the order comes into force, the placing on or near the road of such traffic signs in such positions as the order making authority may consider requisite for securing that adequate information as to the effect of the order is made available to persons using the road;
(b)the maintenance of such signs for so long as the order remains in force; and
©in a case where the order revokes, amends or alters the application of a previous order, the removal or replacement of existing traffic signs as the authority considers requisite to avoid confusion to road users by signs being left in the wrong positions.
see this link re 3(2)(b):
http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=69249&hl=