YF22 FOC

Grey Toyota C-HR

• Our residents first started reporting YF22 FOC when it appeared on Hollingbury Crescent in early July 2025. It sat unmoved for more than two weeks, and when it eventually did move, it didn’t go far - reappearing just a short distance down the same road, this time displaying a resident parking permit for Zone I.

• This suggests that the owner of this vehicle is from Craven Vale on the far side of Queen’s Park, around two miles away. This alone makes clear that the driver is not a Hollingdean resident.

• Despite living elsewhere in the city, they have chosen to use Hollingdean as a convenient spot to leave their private hire vehicle when not in use, almost always in the exact same position at the very top of Hollingbury Crescent, or otherwise as close as they can possibly manage to it.

• Residents regularly see the driver arriving in Hollingdean only to spend their days up on Hollingbury Road (within Zone G), returning to this corner of Hollingdean only to leave the car parked again for days at a time.

• For those who live nearby, it is another example of how non-residents treat Hollingdean as a dumping ground for vehicles they don’t want to keep near their own homes. Or, want to park near where they are parking for 'free', when the person they are visiting lives inside an existing CPZ, and does not provide them with visitor permits.

• The car’s commercial use adds insult to injury, yet another working vehicle taking up scarce residential space, increasing traffic pressure and leaving residents to deal with the consequences of a stranger's convenience.