GF18 KAA

Blue Audi A3

• GF18 KAA is the latest vehicle to be dumped in Hollingdean by the same non-resident owners responsible for the long-abandoned brown camper van, GY10 UYU. After years of using Hollingdean as free storage for their campervan (and barely moving it at all during that time), the owners appear to have shifted their attention to this blue Audi A3 instead.

• Since early May 2025, when the campervan was spotted being moved to Preston Drove and then Stanford Avenue (both inside of controlled parking zone J), this Audi has taken its place in Hollingdean. It now sits parked as close to Fiveways as the owner can possibly manage - almost always on Hollingbury Crescent - and is rarely moved.

• The connection between the two vehicles is obvious. When the campervan was moved out of Hollingdean, eagle-eyed residents noticed that it was parked in a permit-controlled area without a valid permit of its own. Instead, it displays the valid permit for this Audi A3 (GF18 KAA) alongside a For Sale sign in the windscreen.

• This confirms what many suspected: that the owner does not live in Hollingdean and has simply been rotating their vehicles between zones to avoid paying for appropriate permits or taking responsibility for where they store their vehicles.

• Now, rather than dealing with their unloved campervan, Hollingdean residents are left with this Audi instead, yet another vehicle with absolutely no ties to the area, dumped indefinitely by owners who treat the neighbourhood as an extension of their driveway.

• Despite living in Zone J, where second vehicle permits are available and the street is quiet, the owners have chosen to avoid the minor inconvenience of dealing with their own parking and instead shift the burden onto Hollingdean residents.

• This behaviour is not just inconsiderate, it is part of a wider problem. Vehicles like GF18 KAA and GY10 UYU contribute directly to the loss of available parking for Hollingdean residents. Whether it’s a rusting campervan or an unloved Audi, the outcome is the same: non-residents treat our streets as their own free car park. With this comes congestion, noise, and pollution that simply should not be in our neighbourhoods at all.

• We can only hope that their For Sale sign succeeds, and that this vehicle disappears in the same way the campervan eventually did. What no one wants is for both vehicles to return, which would just make life even harder for the people who actually live here.