GX23 NKK

White Fiat 500

• This little white Fiat is regularly seen in one of Hollingdean’s most contested areas, right up against Fiveways where parking is already scarce and traffic is heavy.

• It displays a valid resident permit for another area of the city, yet it is routinely left in Hollingdean during the day while the owner commutes elsewhere.

• This is not a car visiting friends or family, it is a non-resident vehicle using our streets as a free daytime parking spot, despite there being legitimate options parking available to the driver where they are visiting.

• The problem is not just the loss of a space. This stretch is already one of the most congested in Hollingdean, packed with commuter cars, permit-zone spillover, and constant through traffic.

• Every non-resident vehicle here forces residents further from their homes and contributes to more circling for spaces, more idling engines, and more noise.

• The choice to leave this car here is deliberate. The owner has a valid permit and a place to park in their own neighbourhood but prefers to push the impact onto Hollingdean instead. For those who live here, it’s yet another reminder that our streets are being treated as an overflow lot for the rest of the city.

• This little white Fiat has become a familiar sight to residents over the past few years, regularly appearing in one of Hollingdean’s most contested areas - right up against Fiveways, where parking is already scarce and traffic is heavy.

• The car first began appearing in early 2024 and was seen routinely parked on Hollingbury Crescent and the surrounding roads for months at a time.

• At the time, it displayed a valid (but expired) resident permit for Zone J (Fiveways), confirming that it belonged to a non-resident using Hollingdean as a convenient, cost-free storage spot rather than renewing their permit.

• For the better part of that year, it rarely moved. The Fiat was left parked for weeks or even months at a time, taking up valuable space on streets already overflowing with commuter cars, permit-zone spillover, and constant through traffic.

• During this period, residents repeatedly noted that on the rare occasion the car did move, the driver would park here and walk back towards Fiveways, making it clear that the car’s presence in Hollingdean was not incidental.

• In October 2024, the car disappeared, after nearly ten months of sitting on our streets, almost entirely idle.

• For a short while, residents assumed that the problem with this particular car had resolved itself. But almost exactly a year later, in September 2025, GX23 NKK reappeared in almost the same spot, once again parked as close to Fiveways as possible.

• This time, the Fiat carries a newer resident permit for Zone J (Fiveways), but due to expire within days at the start of October 2025. This detail speaks volumes. Since its return, it has not moved once.

• Residents strongly suspect that the owner has resumed the same pattern as before: running down their permit in their own area, then shifting their vehicle into Hollingdean to avoid paying for a renewal.

• This behaviour encapsulates a wider issue across the neighbourhood. Hollingdean’s streets are being treated as an overflow car park for the rest of the city, a place where non-residents can offload their cars rather than pay for residents' parking in the areas that they have chosen to live.

• There is no practical reason this Fiat should be here. The owner has had a valid permit and a place to park where they live, yet has chosen instead to leave their vehicle in Hollingdean for months at a time instead.

• The result is more congestion, more noise, and fewer spaces for the people who actually live here. It’s selfish, unnecessary, and exactly the kind of behaviour that continues to frustrate residents year after year.