SW1
SW1 — Westminster, Victoria, Belgravia and Knightsbridge
SW1 is the hardest ground in this territory to work on, and it is worth being straight about why. Whitehall, Millbank and the roads around the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey carry security restrictions and stopping bans that no amount of goodwill gets around; Victoria Station and Victoria Coach Station generate constant vehicle movement in a road layout with almost no slack; and Hyde Park Corner is not a place anybody should be changing a wheel. Belgravia, Eaton Square, Sloane Square, St James's and Pimlico are calmer, and that is where most of the fitting actually happens.
What we work on in SW1
18 places in this district, grouped by what they are.
Stations and transport
- Hyde Park Corner
- Millbank
- Victoria Coach Station
- Victoria Station
Parks, landmarks and institutions
- Buckingham Palace
- Eaton Square
- Harrods
- Houses of Parliament
- Tate Britain
- Westminster Abbey
Streets and estates
- Belgravia
- Knightsbridge
- Pimlico
- Sloane Square
- St James's
- Victoria
- Westminster
- Whitehall
Getting to you
Tell us precisely where the car is standing, because in SW1 the answer decides whether we fit on the spot or move the car first. Near Buckingham Palace, Whitehall and Tate Britain there are stretches where a working vehicle cannot legally stop at all. Everything here is inside the congestion charge zone, and the underground car parks around Knightsbridge and Harrods have height barriers we need to know about in advance.
Stopped somewhere in SW1?
Tell us the vehicle, the tyre size if you can see it, and exactly where the car is standing. We will say what we can do before anyone sets off.