KM71 JXS

Blue Hyundai i20

• Local residents recognise KM71 JXS as belonging to a frequent weekend visitor to a resident living in the adjoining controlled parking zones.

• This vehicle often arrives on a Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, often staying - unmoved - for several days thereafter.

• The resident whom this driver is visiting clearly prefers that their visitors park in Hollingdean for 'free', rather than providing their visitor with a parking permit for the area that they live within.

• Using Hollingdean for 'free' parking for visitors is incredibly common, especially during the summer months, when non-resident visitors will leave their vehicles here for many weeks at a time. There are several Airbnbs on Ditchling Road, for example, where the owners explicitly tell their visitors to park in Hollingdean rather than arrange temporary permits for the length of their stay.

• The use of our streets by non-residents in this way not only adds to the parking misery of residents who have no choice but to park further away from their own homes—displaced by these non-residents. It also means that (with a large number of vehicles making unnecessary trips into the area for the sole purpose of parking for 'free') pollution in the area is higher than it needs to be, traffic is heavier, there's more noise, and more congestion.

• This can be solved very simply if non-residents took responsibility for their own vehicle ownership, and for that of their visitors. Instead, they just dump these vehicles on their neighbours instead.