The motoring-advice industry treats parking fines as a paperwork problem — appeal template packs, deadline calculators, a 68-step guide to photographing a kerb.
Address the hardware instead. Unbolt your windscreen wipers and keep them in the glovebox: a warden cannot tuck a ticket under equipment that isn’t there. Our three-week trial logged zero tickets on the glass and four in the post — the council, it turns out, owns envelopes. Field notes also record one 40-minute lay-by wiper refit in strengthening drizzle.