Westminster tracing top ten parking fine evaders

Westminster City Council is tracking down a top ten list of parking fine evaders who owe a total of £110,000.

Since the turn of the year Westminster’s parking team have caught and taken off the road the top offender who had accumulated 213 parking tickets.

In November and December alone, this vehicle racked up over 90 tickets, the equivalent of 1.5 parking fines every day.

Of those the council is still tracking down, the most wanted is a Volkswagen Black Polo registration W152 NAX who owes over £15,000. Since April, this vehicle has racked up over 150 parking tickets.

In total, the top ten hit list owe £110,000 in 1110 unpaid parking fines and their details have now been fed into the hand-held computers carried by Westminster's parking attendants.

Councillor Danny Chalkley, Westminster's Cabinet Member for Transportation and Economic Development, said,"These vehicles we are targeting are a hardcore group of evaders who simply refuse to pay despite being sent reminders."

"No one likes getting a parking ticket but most motorists play fair and either pay or appeal. Yet this tiny minority feel the rules do not apply to them."

"We will pursue these persistent evaders to recover the money owed to us because often these vehicles are not properly licensed or they are displaying fake or stolen disabled blue badges."

"For instance, the number two top parking evader who has now stopped picking up tickets, has previously leapt onto a moving parking removal truck to recover a disabled blue badge displayed in the window whilst leaving their previous vehicle to rot in the pound."

"We also know that half of the the top ten offenders are abusing the present disabled badge scheme."

The full top ten persistent are: 
 
    
    VRM     PCNs      Common Street   CPZ             Make                      Colour 
1  L361HYP 209       Kendal Street [F4]      F4      Nissan Serena                 Grey   
2  W152NAX 151     Porchester Place [F4]   F4    Volkswagen Polo            Black   
3  S877RLE 129       Crawford Street [F2]    F2    Renault Laguna               Black
4  KY04KHH 114      Porchester Place [F4]   F4    Peugeot 307                    Blue
5  BG52JMX 106      B5      Ford                           Transit                             White
6  HT52PMX 96        Maida Vale [C1] C1               Mercedes Benz A Green
7  P767RGN 93        Princes Mews [B3]       B3    Volkswagen Polo             Blue     
8  LA04VRL 72        B3                                         Vauxhall Zafira                Blue
9  H592ALG 70       Jermyn Street [E1]      E1       Volkswagen Golf            Blue     
10 J87VVC  70       Whitcomb Street [G1]    G1    Rover 200 range             White    
     Total   1110                                           
             

Total Number of Persistent Evaders = 2,055 
Approximate Value = £1,633,300