EX10 VRU

Silver Ford Transit

• EX10 VRU is a large commercial van in a poor state of repair and has been reported by multiple residents.

• The driver is not a Hollingdean resident (living around the corner on Hollingbury Park Avenue - in Zone F) but uses Hollingdean to park their van full-time; it is kept here whenever it is not in use. This is commonly every evening and often unmoved throughout weekends.

• This also means that the van often will not move for weeks at a time - particularly during holiday periods.

• The vehicle displays two expired trader permits.

• The driver is understood to live towards Fiveways, and therefore always attempts to park EX10 VRU as close as they possibly can to the border with Zone G and Zone F, using whatever limited available space is available in the very congested area on the West edge of Hollingdean; around Hollingbury Crescent, Adams Close, and Stanmer Park Road.

• Often parked extremely poorly; overlapping disabled bays, double-yellows, and very frequently found mounted onto the curb, to the extent that pushchairs or wheelchair users would struggle to pass on the pavement.

• Multiple reports of aggressive driving from this vehicle: repeated use of the horn, and erratic driving against oncoming traffic in order to park.

• Three separate reports of residents witnessing this vehicle colliding with parked cars, in one instance breaking another car's headlight. Each time, the driver did not appear to notice or care. They simply walked away.

• Frustratingly for residents, this same driver also owns FJ68 WHX, a grey Mercedes C Class, which this non-resident also keeps in Hollingdean instead of obtaining a permit for it. Multiple residents have reported that this leads to situations where this driver deliberately positions one or the other vehicle in such a way that it blocks anybody else from parking nearby until they return. At that point, they move it again to make space so that they can keep both their vehicles together on our streets. Where they do not live.