Labour councillor’s Lamborghini is found parked twice in council car park’s disabled bays without a blue badge

A Labor councilor who twice parked his £208,000 Lamborghini in a disabled car park without a blue badge has apologized but avoided any punishment.

Farhaan Rehman, Labor councilor for Hounslow Heath in west London, owns a light blue Lamborghini Urus SE SUV that was photographed double-parked in the disabled parking space at Hounslow House civic centre.

The usual fine for a public servant who parks without a badge in a disabled car park is a fixed penalty notice of £160; but Mr Rehman was not fined as the car park is owned by Hounslow Council.

Councilor Rehman said he would donate £160 to charity instead after other councilors called for his resignation.

He also resigned as chairman of the city’s Licensing and General Purposes Committee; This means he will lose the £9,424 added to his annual councilor allowance but will retain the basic payment of £12,730.

However, Mr Rehman remains the Labor representative for Hounslow Heath and will remain the Hounslow Labor candidate at the 2026 election; This angered Conservative councillors, who described Mr Rehman’s failure to comply with the rules as an ‘appalling double standard’.

Jack Emsley, Conservative councilor for Chiswick Homefields, said: ‘Twice now he has been caught parking a Lamborghini in a disabled bay; This is not believable.

‘Right now it’s one rule for them, another rule for everyone else. But I think more fundamentally, they are focusing on a manifesto that claims to be cracking down on these types of fined offences.’

Mr Rehman’s blue Lamborghini Urus SE SUV (pictured) was twice caught parked in disabled parking without its blue badge

‘Surely deselection should be abolished and indeed the whip should be removed from the Labor group,’ he added.

The Labor Group said it accepted Mr Rehman’s apology and resignation. They added that they had given the councilor formal advice about his future conduct and reminded him of the ‘high standards expected of a Labor councillor’.

A Labor Party spokesman said: Telegram: ‘Hounslow Labor Group considers the actions taken by Councilor Farhaan Rehman to be unacceptable.

‘Councilor Rehman accepted this unconditionally and took a number of steps to address his behaviour.

‘Hounslow Labor Group expects the highest standards from all elected members.

‘Council Member Rehman accepted full responsibility and intervened immediately in this incident.’

Mr Rehman’s father is also the General Secretary of the Hounslow mosque, one of the largest mosques in the UK and currently under investigation by the Charity Commission.

Earlier this month a single mother was fined £1,000 for ‘flying’ an envelope next to some council bins when they were full.

The car is worth £208,000. If a member of the general public is caught parking in a disabled car park without a badge they could face a fixed penalty notice of £160.

Loretta Alvarez, 26, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that if Councilman Rehman had indeed parked in the bays without a blue badge, there would be a sense that elected officials were behaving differently than ordinary members of the public are expected to behave.

‘BT [would make] You clearly think there’s a hierarchy, he thinks he can get away with it and probably can because he’s a councillor.

“But as a normal person, I would have to pay for it by paying my bills,” Ms. Alvarez said.

Loretta Alvarez had placed the cardboard envelope on top of some bins next to the communal bins shared by 25 households outside her flat in Feltham, west London.

The mother-of-two assumed council workers would pick up the rubbish when they came to collect it, but she was shocked when she received a penalty notice from Hounslow Council and was threatened with legal action if she did not pay.

Labor councilor Rehman’s father, Shafiq Reham, is General Secretary of Hounslow Jamia Masijd and the Islamic Center Mosque, one of the largest mosques in the UK.

The mosque is also being investigated by the Charity Commission over concerns about its management and compliance with legislation.

Worshipers and former staff of the mosque made their claims to government watchdog the Sun reported Last month, there were concerns about ‘unaccounted’ charitable funds and contracts allegedly awarded to employees of the leadership team.

Investigations have also been launched by Hounslow Council and the Labor Party into individuals alleged to be a ‘stifle’ on the community.