Supercar Parking Tickets Go Unpaid: Westminster Dismayed

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veyron.jpg Westminster council is getting in a parking tizzy again, this time over drivers of supercars registered outside the UK parking illegally and then refusing to stump up the cash for tickets. An estimated £4m is outstanding because the council have no powers to trace the drivers so they’ve resorted to publishing the registration plates of the offending motors – an impressive roll-call of Bugatti Veyrons, Rolls Royce Phantoms and a Lamborghini Murcielago – to shame their owners into coughing up. Only last month, two more supercars belonging to the new owners of Harrods were clamped outside the shop by Kensington & Chelsea council. Westminster are asking the government to change the law, but somehow we think parking offences might be low on Cameron and Clegg’s list of priorities. Photo by marcus_jb1973.

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  • http://undefined Martin

    It’s not too low down the list – wheel clamping on private land is to be banned in England and Wales.

    (Also, I had to read the headline a few times to work out that you weren’t going for an homage to this classic from the Scottish Sun)

  • office_howard

    “publishing the registration plates of the offending motors”

    is this online?!

    had a quick search but without joy..

  • http://www.oxocubeeditorial.com/ Beth Torr

    @Martin – I love that headline, I only wish I could come up with something like that.

    @office howard – there are some registrations in the report linked to.

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  • http://www.oxocubeeditorial.com/ Beth Torr

    You’re right re. the clamping laws being changed (and about time too) however, I think in this case the council want the law to be changed to allow them to obtain the details of cars registered outside the UK so they can pursue the driver.

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