First job : go to your 'friend', and give them a slap round the head. You NEVER just ignore stuff like that.

Next :

If you feel that the place is not adequately signed, then go back, take LOTS of pictures showing the lack of signs and the poor placement of those that do exist, and send an email back (enclosing the pictures), explain why it was inadequate, and that you therefore are not willing to pay, and that you will await their further communication. Inform them that if they reject this, then you will want the case to go to POPLA for adjudication

Look up POPLA online, and READ the details.

If your 'friend' opens their mouth with further advice, I'd suggest you put a large cushion in the hole, to shut them up.

I'm going to be a bit more nuanced than Rob.

Until a fairly recent change in the law, the advice was often to ignore anything but a parking ticket issued by a local authority.

There is still a possibility that ignoring the OP's parking charge notice may be OK - I did so not long ago and it was the last I heard of it.

If the OP has just a ticket that was attached to his windscreen he may wish to wait to see if there is a follow-up in the mail. However, I would refer NOW to pepipoo.com, in particular to this page: tinyurl.com/zhhkjxz, where there is a discussion on this very subject.

A statement in one post says this: "My view is that we advise everyone to appeal; POPLA is delivering over a 50% success rate so half of appeals are closed straight away; the remaining 50% wont all go to court because they will cherry pick the less well argued cases and not risk being stuffed later on."

Rob is spot-on with one point, however: gather your evidence NOW - lots of photos to show what you are claiming - inadequate signage.

To summarise: decide whether you're going to fight this (some or all of the way); if you are, appeal and then take it from there.

Edited by FP on 07/03/2016 at 15:04