Hi, I'm new here, and would appreciate any help/advice. I was given a penalty charge notice of £35 (to increase to £70 if unpaid within 7 days), by UKPC for parking unlawfully in a disabled bay without a badge. This was in a supermarket, and I admit I'd done it, but before anyone cries "shame", it was a genuine mistake. There was a lot of snow and slush on the ground on that day, (5th Dec), and the signage for disabled parking on the the ground was not visible. I sent off a letter of appeal to contest the fine, as in my view, the responsibility for ensuring the signage was clearly visible to the car park users, lies with the parking contractors and not the drivers. I got a letter from UKPC saying in effect that the appeal had been rejected, and a week later another letter saying that I now have to pay the full amount of £70 or else.... What angers me even more is that instead of repsonding specifically to my appeal with refernce to the points I had raised i.e the lack of clearly visible signs, they lecture me on the difficulties faced by disabled drivers, and how offenders like me are taking their rights away!!! Unfortnately in my first appeal letter I implied that I did park the car there, in other words I was the driver, so cannot deny now that I was driving the car. What other options have I got? Should I pay up/ignore/write another letter, maybe to BPA this time? Thanks in advance !