SUPER-RICH supercar owners have had their luxury motors towed off a Mayfair pavement, after council staff said the drivers were so wealthy they “barely register” the fines.
A blue Saudi-registered Rolls Royce worth almost £250,000 was hauled away from outside the five-star Chancery Rosewood Hotel in Grosvenor Square.
Westminster Council said they removed the supercar as part of a crackdown on illegal parking.
Furious residents had complained of Lamborghinis and Rolls Royces being dumped on the pavement outside the hotel, where rooms start at around £1,300 a night, and go up to £1,800.
A black Porsche was also pictured being hoisted onto a tow truck outside the infamous hotel as part of the enforcement sweep.
The standard parking rate in Grosvenor Square is £8.82 an hour, though motorists are limited to a four-hour stay.
The council said it had been “inundated” with reports of the “selfishly parked” supercars clogging up the pavement.
Guests at the Chancery Rosewood Hotel, on the former US Embassy site, had reportedly been leaving their vehicles illegally.
Parking tickets had made no dent in the behaviour, the authority said.
The standard penalty charge notices for bad parking cost between £110 and £160 in Westminster.
Motorists can get a 50 per cent discount if they pay the fine within 14 days, an insignificant sum for the superrich.
Westminster Council and Transport for London both use private agencies to chase down European offenders.
But vehicles registered outside Europe are far harder to track.
Most of the poorly parked cars were foreign-registered, with several carrying Saudi plates.
This means the chances of recovering fines were “virtually nil,” according to a council spokesperson.
They added: “The usual approach of issuing PCNs have proven to be ineffective.
“The owners of the vehicles, which include Rolls Royce and Lamborghinis, are so wealthy that fines barely register.”
Officials sent in a relocation truck on Tuesday to scoop up the Rolls Royce and move it several streets away.
Other cars parked on the pavement were shifted voluntarily by their owners once staff arrived.
Max Sullivan, Westminster’s cabinet member for streets, said: “Those on foot shouldn’t have to run a gauntlet of illegally and selfishly parked supercars when trying to walk around Westminster.
“We will not tolerate dangerous pavement parking, whether it’s a Lime bike or a Lamborghini.”
The Chancery Rosewood Hotel was approached for comment.
