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Hollingdean

A resident-led campaign to improve where we live

July 2025:
A sudden quiet

Every summer there is a moment - usually right after the end of the school term - when Hollingdean's roads suddenly grow noticeably quieter. Not 'quiet', but 'quieter': fewer cars, fewer traffic queues, fewer people circling for spaces. Suddenly residents find that they only have to park themselves two streets away instead of the usual six!

Yes, the university students go home and this has a big impact on the number of random beat-up cars that have been dumped in the area since at least Easter. But, it isn't fair to place all the blame solely on them.

Many residents go away themselves, often taking their cars with them. This applies both to local residents, and those from the adjoining areas who use the area to park their car. The school runs disappear. Teachers and nursery workers aren't commuting and so aren't parking here. Some of the commuters who usually park here are also on holiday, or at home with their children.

It's a temporary and minor relief, but also an indication of how even quite a small reduction in Hollingdean can lead to easier days for our residents. It's also a sharp reminder that a huge proportion of the pressure on our roads comes from those who don't live here, or only pass through.

Give it another month and we will be completely full of non-resident cars again, this time tourists and visitors to people in other areas of the city...

June 2025:
South votes yes, North votes no

The results are in.

After more than 1,600 responses the council has now confirmed:

• South Hollingdean voted 73.7% in favour of introducing a controlled residents’ parking scheme.
• North Hollingdeanvoted 71.7% against.

As a result, only the South area will proceed to the next stage, which is a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) consultation, and is expected later this summer. If approved, the scheme will be introduced, at the latest, by the end of 2025 or early 2026.

The council’s public statement also acknowledges the strength and clarity of the result. Once again, the South has spoken with a clear and consistent voice.

It is - however - worth noting that the council is already at least two months behind its originally indicated timeline for progressing the scheme. Nevertheless, the end is in sight. At least for some of us.

March 2025:
The consultations close

After years of effort through petitions, documentation, letters, questions, and tireless resident engagement, the formal parking consultations for both North and South Hollingdean have now closed.

There is nothing more that we can do but wait for the results. In the meantime, though, it is worth noting that turnout across the area has been significant this time around, with an especially high response rate from residents in the South. We won't see results for some time but what is already clear is that this is an issue that matters deeply to the people who live here.

For the first time, North and South Hollingdean were consulted as separate areas as an acknowledgement of their different challenges and priorities. The outcome is now in the council's hands. We're told results are likely to be published relatively quickly with any approved schemes to follow shortly after.

For now, we wait.

February 2025:
A notable absence

This time around there's been a notable lack of fliers.

No scare campaigns and only one set of fliers that we have been made aware of; distributed by an old couple that nobody who spoke to the recognised.

Perhaps this time it really will just be residents making up their own minds.

January 2025:
North and South consultations begin...

At last.

After years of broken promises, and rising tensions, Brighton & Hove City Council has launched formal consultations for controlled parking in Hollingdean, this time with North and South areas being consulted separately.

This is the moment residents have been working towards for over two years. Petitions. Documentation. Letters. Questions.

The consultations run until Sunday 9 March. If either area votes in favour, parking restrictions could be in place as early as mid-summer 2025.

The proposals are broadly the same in both areas, and match up with the wants of residents from the original consultation in 2022:

• A full scheme,
• Operating 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week.
• Bays for residents, visitors, disabled users, and loading
• Shared and paid bays near businesses
• Double yellows on junctions and drop-kerbs
• Up to 50 visitor permits per household per year

It is important to remember again that although this proposal will include many shared bays (purple in the maps), these are mixed-use: permit holders can park in them, for any length of time, and at any point. None permit-holders will also be able to park in them, but will have to pay, and (for the most part) only up to a maximum of four hours.

These bays will be clearly marked and it will be up to visitors to make sure that they are parking in one of these rather than in the exclusively resident-only bays.

December 2024:
A year of waiting. Finally, some movement

It has now been a full year since South Hollingdean residents submitted a 300+ signature petition calling for a parking scheme in their area. For most of that time, the council has offered little more than vague reassurances and delay.

But we understand that behind the scenes, residents have kept working.

We now understand that council officers are actively engaging with residents in both the North and South of Hollingdean, and that - crucially - the next consultation will be split. Each area will be given the opportunity to decide independently.

This is a positive step. One that acknowledges the clear differences in parking pressure across Hollingdean, and the equally clear differences in support for a solution.

We also understand that, should either area support a scheme, restrictions could be in place as early as mid-summer 2025.

October 2024:
The silence is telling

It has been a full year since Mr. McGill and Ms. Donoughue made their joint appearance at the October 2023 committee meeting to argue against controlled parking in South Hollingdean whilst simultaneously admitting that the South Hollingdean residents were really suffering.

In the twelve months since, and despite the very clear action of our residents, they have:

• Submitted no further questions
• Presented no petition of their own
• Not returned to a single committee meeting

They have simply vanished.

By contrast, the residents actually living with the consequences of inaction have continued to organise, document, petition, and push for a practical, resident-led solution, despite being repeatedly ignored by the people elected to represent them.

We are grateful to Mr. McGill and Ms. Donoughue for their continued support in their silence. Thank you for not presuming to represent us any further.

December 2023:
A gentle seasonal reminder...

With the holidays fast approaching, if you do not live in Hollingdean, please remember that it is your responsibility to arrange visitor parking permits for your visitors.

Please don't leave your vehicle, or allow your visitors to leave theirs on our streets over the Christmas break.

The greatest gift you could give the residents of Hollingdean this year is to park your vehicles, and those of your visitors elsewhere. Get a permit for your own neighbourhood and take your car off our streets.

We wish a warm and peaceful holiday season to all those who live here, and who've continued to support a safer, cleaner, more accessible Hollingdean.

Merry Christmas.

December 2023:
Over 300 residents demand action in South Hollingdean

On December 5th, a petition signed by 304 residents of South Hollingdean was formally presented to the council's Transport & Sustainability Committee, calling for the urgent introduction of a residents' parking scheme. Despite being submitted in just seven weeks, the petition attracted one of the highest signature counts for any petition submitted to this committee in recent years.

And yet... it went unrepresented.

Residents who had planned to speak at the meeting were subjected to anonymous threats and intimidation via social media during the period that the petition ran. As a result, no one from the community felt safe attending in person.

Instead, the petition was read aloud by Councillor Trevor Muten, who acknowledged both the strength of feeling behind it and the disappointing outcome of the October consultation.

“I recognise the outcome from the public consultation for Hollingdean earlier this year was not so favourable for residents in South Hollingdean. I recommend that an effective residents parking scheme in South Hollingdean is considered as a priority when the parking scheme priority timetable update report is presented to this Committee next year.”

This response can be seen in section 42.2 of the meeting minutes here.

A note on representation

While we are grateful to Councillor Muten for reading the petition in the room, we must also express our deep disappointment with our local ward councillor, Mohammed Asaduzzaman.

He did not support this petition.

He did not attend to speak on behalf of the residents he represents.

When residents reached out to him via official council channels, he simply did not respond at all.

He did, however, attend every meeting where the issues his residents face have been discussed. Instead of being involved, he appears to have focused on campaigning for parking changes around the Open Market, where he and his close associates operate commercial stalls.

It has become sadly clear that, when it comes to the residents of Hollingdean, at least some of our councillors are missing in action.

October 2023:
Residents launch petition for South Hollingdean parking scheme

Just two weeks after the council voted not to proceed with the proposed Hollingdean parking scheme, local residents from the southern part of the ward have launched an ePetition, calling for urgent reconsideration for their area.

The petition, which began on 13 October 2023, has already begun gathering support from residents living in the worst-affected areas, particularly those south of The Dip and along the Roedale Road corridor, where displacement and dangerous parking have been a daily reality for many years.

The petition makes several key points:

• South Hollingdean has consistently voted in favour of a parking scheme, with 72.4% support in 2022 and 50.8% in 2023.
• Residents highlight worsening displacement, illegal parking, blocked bus routes, and increased pollution — especially around Hollingdean Terrace, Hollingbury Place, and Roedale Road.
• The area is now entirely surrounded by CPZs on all sides, yet remains one of the last uncontrolled areas in central Brighton.

The petition also points out that the 2023 consultation was marred by misinformation, poor communication, and a lack of resident input into the final design.

It also puts forward constructive proposals, including:

• Reconsidering a light-touch scheme as an option;
• Reducing paid visitor bays by 50%;
• Introducing diagonal resident-only bays in suitable closes off Davey Drive.

The petition will run until 5 December 2023, after which it will be presented to the council’s Transport & Sustainability Committee.

This is not over. Residents in the South continue to demand fair treatment, and have now taken matters into their own hands.

You can read the full petition text and sign it here on the council website.

October 2023:
An outsider speaks on behalf of Hollingdean, but not for us

At the Transport & Sustainability Committee meeting on October 3rd, a public question was submitted under the name Rachel Donoughue (also saved locally here), but was, in fact, presented by a man named Iain McGill (see 25.26 here). He stood before the committee claiming to represent all Hollingdean residents, and demanded that any parking scheme for Hollingdean be"put aside both now and into the future."

Let us be absolutely clear:

One Hollingdean rejects - in the strongest possible terms - any attempt by unknown individuals to speak on behalf of our neighbourhood.

Mr McGill is not known to us. He does not appear to live in Hollingdean. He has not consulted with local residents. And yet he attempted to speak for all of us - with no mandate, no accountability, and a message directly at odds with the lived experiences of many in our community.

In his remarks, he rejected the idea that misleading materials may have influenced the consultation results, accused the council of "revisiting it until you get the result you want," and insisted that Hollingdean should be "left alone".

And yet, despite all of this, he then openly acknowledged that the parking situation in the South of Hollingdean is a problem: "there are people who are crying out for something to be done".

On that point, we could not agree with him more.

We know.
They are us, and our neighbours.

That is why this process has focused so heavily on understanding the specific needs of different streets, rather than treating the entire ward as a single, undifferentiated area.

We welcome discussion. We welcome disagreement. But what we will not accept are anonymous individuals, with no clear ties to Hollingdean, using public platforms to obscure or overrule the concerns of actual residents, especially those who have been facing the worst of these problems for years.

We live here. We know our streets. We know our needs. And we will continue to stand up for the parts of Hollingdean that desperately need change.

A full video of the exchange is included below, and can also be found on the council website.

October 2023:
A disappointing setback for Hollingdean

The results are in. The council has now published the outcome of the detailed design consultation for a residents' parking scheme in the smaller area of Hollingdean. The results are, frankly, disappointing - verging on unbelievable.

Despite the strong support shown during the previous round (where 61.4% were in favour, with 52.3% preferring a full scheme), the latest consultation showed that just 40.3% supported the proposed scheme, with 59.7% opposed.

The consultation ran from 21 April to 4 June 2023 and achieved a 34.1% response rate from within the proposed zone, which is slightly higher than we saw in the previous stage (33.0%).

The numbers at a glance:

• Response rate: 34.1% (758 valid responses from 2,223 households)
• Support for a scheme:
  • 305 (40.3%) said yes
  • 452 (59.7%) said no
• Areas with the strongest support included:
  • Hollingbury Crescent (61.1%) yes
  • Hollingbury Place (52.4%) yes
  • Roedale Road (59.7%) yes
  • Southmount (100%) yes
• Areas with the lowest engagement or strongest opposition included:
  • Upper Hollingdean Road (8.1% response)
  • Hollingdean Road (3.5% response)
  • Stanmer Villas (66.7% no)

These results were presented to the Transport & Sustainability Committee on 3rd October 2023. Based on the outcome, the committee voted not to proceed with the scheme at this time.

A clear North–South divide

One thing that is very clear from the street-level data: there is a consistent split between the north and south of Hollingdean. This stretches back as far as there have been consultations around parking in the area.

Streets in the southern and western parts of the ward - including Hollingbury Crescent, Roedale Road, The Crossway, and Southmount — continue to show strong support for parking restrictions.

By contrast, areas further north, particularly near the estate and up towards the golf course, show less engagement and more resistance to change.

Misleading visualisations in the council report

Frustratingly, the heatmap included in the council’s consultation report does not reflect the actual street-by-street data.

Several southern streets that registered clear majority support for the scheme (such as Roedale Road and Hollingbury Crescent) are shown incorrectly in red — as if they opposed it.

This diagram is misleading, and we can only assume it was a mistake. But it is precisely this kind of inaccuracy that undermines public confidence in the consultation process — and fuels frustration among residents whose support is not being properly represented.

Where we go from here

Sadly, there’s no escaping it: these results represent a setback for residents who have consistently called for change — particularly those in the worst-affected areas.

It is especially disappointing given the inconsistent and misleading material circulated ahead of the vote — much of it distributed by non-residents with a clear incentive to keep our streets unrestricted.

And yet, despite the committee’s vote, there were signs that councillors recognise the need for action, especially in the South. Ward councillors indicated they may revisit the issue in future, and the council acknowledged that opposition campaigns may have played a role in the outcome.

We are, of course, disappointed.
But we are not done.

Many of our residents continue to call our for action and we will continue to represent their voices, push for fair solutions, and resist attempts to misrepresent this neighbourhood.

September 2023:
A brief update

As many will be aware, the council published the results of Hollingdean's most recent consultation ahead of the Transport & Sustainability Committee meeting next week.

These results show that support for the proposed scheme design was over 40%.

We have met with the council and our councillors, who raised significant concerns regarding an opposing campaign, which included misrepresented data that they both believe may have influenced this result. In part, these are the alarmist fliers distributed by non-residents that we have discussed before.

We also note that in some of the fliers that our residents received during the consultations, the publisher claimed to be attending this upcoming meeting to speak on their stance to the committee. We note that they are not scheduled to do so and, therefore, remain anonymous, aside from those individuals caught distributing these fliers on residential CCTV.

The committee will discuss this situation in detail at the meeting on October 3rd, so we will withhold further comment on the results until the committee has made a decision.

August 2023:
Residents launch hollingdeanparking.com

In mid-2023, residents launched hollingdeanparking.com, a community-led project documenting the scale and impact of non-resident parking in Hollingdean and on Hollingdean residents.

Initially created to provide the council with proof of displacement and commuter parking, the site has already collected:

• 2,000+ reports about
• 300+ unique vehicles from
• 80+ contributors.

What began as a short-term survey has since become an ongoing record of long-stay, commuter, and abandoned vehicles, many still parked here months later.

It is one of the clearest demonstrations yet that Hollingdean is being used as a free car park, and that the need for change is urgent.

June 2023:
What happens now?

We had previously understood that the consultation results would be prepared and presented to the Transport & Sustainability Committee (replacing the now-decommissioned Environment, Transport & Sustainability Committee) at their meeting this month. This assurance had been seen as a way for the council to start making amends for the delays we have seen throughout this process. However, this will now only happen once the newly formed committee finds their feet, most likely in October.

We now understand that the intention is for the results to be presented on the 3rd of October. This significant delay is disappointing, but at least it shows that the process is progressing - even if it is much slower than many would have liked.

The process from here

If support from the latest consultation is sufficient, a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) will be published. The TRO has a 21-day period where the general public can comment either in support or objection to the proposals; we would expect this to happen during the latter half of October and early November.

Once that period has passed, the TRO is sealed, and from there, the comments submitted will be considered. Depending on these, it could:

• Fail to proceed;
• Require further amendments, which would then be reported back to the City Environment, South Downs & The Sea Committee who would make a final decision;
• Proceed as advertised.

If either of the last two resolutions occur, we expect to see the zone implemented reasonably quickly thereafter.

If support in the past consultation is not sufficient, or concerns are raised that the committee deems need further consideration, then a new consultation with a new proposal will be published.

In most recent conversations, the council appears to remain committed to its original timeline (see January update below) despite significant delays in the process to date. This would mean that should there have been sufficient support in the latest consultation, and should the TRO be issued and proceed as advertised, we could still see implementation in December.

June 2023:
A look back a decade...

Hollingbury Crescent, Davey Drive, and Upper Hollingdean Road are the first streets within Hollingdean that you arrive on when driving out of the adjoining existing parking zones. Hollingdean is surrounded on three sides by controlled resident parking, whilst the golf course accounts for the remaining borders to the North (with no through-roads).

Any non-residents looking for free parking will inevitably pass down one of these three streets first and stop if space is available. As such, these three roads form great examples of areas where residents are feeling some of the most substantial pressures in the area.

With the power of Google Maps Street View, we can compare the current congestion levels for all three roads against how the same streets looked a decade ago when there were no adjoining resident parking zones. In speaking with residents on these streets, we understand that none of the vehicles shown in the June 2023 screenshots (on the right) belong to residents of these roads or the local area. Combined with the imagery Google Maps has collected, it really helps to demonstrate the issues that Hollingdean residents face.

Click on an image to view it at a larger size.

The same dramatic increase in vehicles, as seen in these screenshots, is also occurring across the wider Hollingdean area, especially in the areas that directly abut existing parking zones or feed off these entry roads.

As we have been discussing for many years, continuing to allow unrestricted parking in Hollingdean is congruous to not only the parking problems that residents have been facing (again - for many years) but also to the considerable and unnecessary local traffic, noise, and pollution brought from non-resident vehicles.

Fundamentally, the parking situation that Hollingdean has increasingly found itself in over the past few years means that our streets are busier, noisier, smellier, and less safe because non-residents use them to park day-to-day and store their vehicles.

May 2023:
A look at the 'actual' facts and figures

With an apparent mass campaign in full swing to misinform and lie to residents of Hollingdean, using fliers and social media posts to grossly exaggerate the consequences of a parking scheme, now seems like an opportune moment to revisit the results of the initial consultation from last year.

Following the initial consultation, the results were collated and presented to the ET&S Committee in September of 2022. Two sets of results were produced, both of which can be found on the council committee web page here. We have also downloaded copies of these two files and included them in the links below for posterity's sake, although you are welcome to confirm that the files here are the same as those published by the council.

1. The complete results

This is a complete set of results for the entire consultation, including every - valid - vote.
See the full report here.

• 52.6% supported a residents' parking scheme
• 45.4% prefer a full scheme
• 52.7% support a Monday-to-Sunday scheme

Despite these results very convincingly demonstrating support across the district, there were some areas of Hollingdean where support was significantly not in favour. This was to be expected as some areas within Hollingdean do not struggle with parking. It is therefore fair and democratic to take these areas into account. Those areas that did not vote in favour of a parking scheme are not to be included in the proposed scheme. However, these areas were consulted again in October last year. The turn-out was extremely low and no further action is planned for those areas of Hollingdean at this time. More on that is in the January 2023 post below.

2. The 'smaller area'

Considering the split of support across the (roughly) East and West areas of Hollingdean, a second set of results was also collated and presented at the same time, from the same consultation, at the same ES&T committee meeting.

These are the results for the area which showed the strongest support for a scheme and into which the council proposes controlled parking be introduced (at this time).
See the report for the 'smaller area' here.

• 61.4% supported a residents' parking scheme
• 52.3% prefer a full scheme
• 60.4% support a Monday-to-Sunday scheme

It is these results which relate directly to the current consultation. The residents of the 'smaller area' - which the design covers - voted significantly in favour of a full scheme (over a light-touch scheme), seven days a week.

We are aware that the fliers that have been distributed recently seek to confuse people by claiming that the area only voted for a light-touch scheme and that the council is pushing forward with a full scheme against the will of the residents. This is not true.

Whilst the wider Hollingdean area did indeed vote very marginally in favour of a light-touch scheme rather than a full one, once the areas that also voted against a scheme as a whole (and are not being included in this design) are removed, the support swings in favour of a full scheme instead.

Anybody who attempts to argue or convince residents using the 'full' set of results rather than the results from the area where the zone is being proposed either completely misunderstands the process, or is otherwise doing so out of malice.

May 2023:
Alarmist fliers make a reappearance in Hollingdean

During the initial consultation last year (and in previous years where consultations had been held), fliers started to appear across Hollingdean tucked under car windscreen wipers and pushed through letterboxes. They were deliberately styled and branded to appear as though they had come from us - a formal residential group. This was not the case.

They quoted inaccurate and alarmist details about the consequences of a residential parking scheme here and begged residents to vote against the proposals.

At the time, residents were able to speak to the individuals distributing these fliers and discover that they were not from Hollingdean. One was a Seven Dials resident who had been asked by her son's school PTA to distribute them; another was a resident from Fiveways who admitted to using Hollingdean to park his - multiple - vehicles.

These are not people who have the interest of Hollingdean residents at heart.

This week, we have started to see similar fliers appear again, although at least this time, some of them are not purporting to be from us! However, we did see one from 'One Hollingdean' (with a missing 'g'). It is unclear if this was deliberate or a typo. The quality of the rest of the content on the flier would suggest typo.

Of the four different types of leaflet/flier we have now seen this time around, we strongly suspect that they all originate from the same individuals. Each follows the same tired format: littered with spelling, grammatical, and factual errors, over-exaggerated permit costs, doom-and-gloom about the consequences of a CPZ, and finally urging residents to vote against the proposed plan.

The real irony here is that the majority of the vehicles they have placed fliers on do not belong to Hollingdean residents and have not been touched in between their visits, meaning these leaflets and fliers are simply building up the windscreens of the same unmoved, non-resident vehicles we would like to see less of.

Again, these originate from, and are being distributed by, non-residents who stand to lose a lot if they cannot use Hollingdean as their personal car park and vehicle storage. Not the residents who suffer and struggle with additional pollution, traffic, and congested streets as a result.

It is important that every resident is able to form and share their own opinion in the survey if they should so wish. Please do not be fooled by these fliers: the facts they quote are easily demonstrable as false, and the people putting them there do not have your best interest in mind. Only their own.

It is likely no coincidence that these have begun to appear now - as we enter the final week of the consultation.

If you have not already done so, and feel you would like, please make sure you complete the survey on the council website below. The consultation ends on the 4th of June.

https://consultations.brighton-hove.gov.uk/parking/hollingdean/

April 2023:
Full scheme consultation begins

What should now be the final stage of the council's consultations regarding parking in Hollingdean has begun and can be accessed and filled in (by residents and business owners within the zone) here:

https://consultations.brighton-hove.gov.uk/parking/hollingdean/

This will run until the 4th of June. We now urge all residents and business owners within the zone (who will be receiving further details from the council in the post in the coming days) to fill in the survey to make sure that your opinions and wishes are presented to the council.

Click on the image to see the proposed plan in greater detail. This shows exactly as we expected, with the majority of parking within the area being set aside specifically for the use of local residents and their visitors. Whilst there are significant amounts of shared parking bays included (purple on the map), these are limited to either permit holders or paying vehicle owners. Non-permit holders will only be able to use these spaces for a maximum of four hours and will be unable to return within the following four hours.

This seems like a fair compromise between ensuring residents access to parking near their homes, and the needs of their visitors. It also removes the requirement to use limited visitor permits when residents have visitors.

February 2023:
The unintended consequences of emissions-based permit pricing

Brighton & Hove council uses an emissions-based pricing model for resident parking permits, and so they should. It is supposed to encourage greener choices by making them more affordable. However, for those of us without any restrictions, it has had the opposite effect.

By charging significantly higher permit fees for high-emission vehicles, the council has created a financial incentive for owners of the most polluting, least-efficient, and often least-cared-for vehicles to avoid permit zones altogether. Instead, they store these vehicles in areas like ours, where parking remains unrestricted and enforcement nonexistent.

The result is that we bear the brunt of the city's traffic: older diesels, neglected vans, long-stay commercial vehicles, and private cars with expired MOTs and zero local ties.

January 2023:
Non-zone consultation results

Following the additional consultation held in October, in which Hollingdean residents whose addresses fall outside of the new Hollingdean parking permit zone were asked whether they would like to also be included, the results have now been published.

The results showed a further 52% support for a residents' parking scheme.

However, the overall turnout for this additional consultation was extremely low, with only 11% of the 1,279 households contacted taking part. Taking this low turn-out into account, the committee have agreed that no change should be made to the Hollingdean detailed design consultation boundary. The process continues as before.

Also provided in the agenda for January's meeting was an expected timeline (published for the first time), which suggests that we can expect to see full implementation of the scheme before the end of the year. This is a disappointing slip from the original promises made by the council, but at least it also now means that the end is in sight for our residents.

October 2022:
Non-zone residents are to be consulted

The council is now reaching out to those Hollingdean residents who live in roads that voted 'no' during the original consultation. As we have seen in Hollingdean when neighbouring zones have been introduced (and in particular Zone G on Hollingbury Road), there is a concern around displacement parking.

Those streets without parking controls are very likely to find that individuals who had previously used the wider Hollingdean area to park their second and third cars, use as part of their commute into Brighton, or store their camper vans, will instead park on those remaining 'free' roads. This will have the effect of compressing those vehicles into a smaller area, making parking for those residents more difficult still.

As a second stage to our parking consultation, residents on these roads within Hollingdean will be receiving a letter explaining these circumstances, and asking for their opinion on whether they would like their road to be included in the final design consultation.

This stage of the consultation starts on the 28th of October and is only available to residents living on roads within Hollingdean not listed in our previous update (below). Share your thoughts with the council on the link below (from the 28th, and before the 20th of November):

https://consultations.brighton-hove.gov.uk/parking/hollingdean-parking/

If the results of this show any significant change in opinion, these will be reported back to the Environment, Transport and Sustainability Committee in January, to seek approval for those additional roads to be included.

Further into the future, we expect that the design consultation stage will occur in the Spring of next year, with the finalised zone confirmed and implemented in time for the summer.

September 2022:
The Majority of Hollingdean residents vote for parking controls

Long anticipated, the results of the recent parking consultation here in Hollingdean were published by the council earlier this month.

As predicted, more than half of Hollingdean residents voted in favour of controlled parking within our neighbourhoods.

This is in direct contradiction to the misleading article published by Felice Southwell for Brighton & Hove News, who (wrongly) claims that residents had rejected parking controls.

Also as predicted, there were significant differences in the level of support across different areas of our ward. Areas to the South and West were particularly supportive (with many roads showing support in excess of 80%), whilst areas towards the East voted more modestly.

Taking this into account, it has been proposed (and is now being actioned by the council), that they focus on the introduction of controlled parking in the area of Hollingdean where support was highest.

This will be a full scheme, operating from 9am to 8pm, seven days a week.

This is being actioned on the condition (as we requested) that those residents of Hollingdean currently falling outside of the new zone, be written to by the council and given a further opportunity to join the zone should they wish; and that this should happen as soon as is possible after the zone is implemented.

The map included here shows the layout of this new zone, which will encompass the following streets within Hollingdean:

1. Adams Close
2. Barnett Road
3. Davey Drive
4. Dudley Road
5. Dunster Close
6. Freehold Terrace
7. Harrington Place
8. Hertford Road
9. Hollingbury Crescent
10. Hollingbury Place
11. Hollingbury Rise
12. Hollingbury Rise West
13. Hollingdean Road
14. Hollingdean Terrace
15. Horton Road
16. Major Close
17. Payne Terrace
18. Quarry Bank Road
19. Roedale Road
20. Southmount
21. Stanmer Park Road
22. Stanmer Villas
23. The Crossway
24. The Linkway
25. Tintern Close
26. Upper Hollingdean Road
27. Waverley Crescent
28. Wigmore Close

If you are a resident of one of these roads: you will be in the new parking zone.
The council will hold a second consultation shortly during which they will write to you to present the zone design and offer an opportunity to feed back.

If you are a Hollingdean resident but not of one of these roads: you will not be in the new parking zone.
It is unlikely that you will be further involved in the consultation process this time around. You will, however, be written to by the council in due course to explain your options and (potentially) offer the opportunity of a second consultation to include your roads.

We are pleased to see that council workers have already been spotted surveying the new zone. We look forward to more information before Christmas.

June 2022

With the latest parking consultation for Hollingdean now complete we reached out to council officials in the 'Parking Design & Implementation' team for comment. Although a significant amount of analysis is yet to be undertaken, and no official results will be published for some time, they were able to comment that results appeared to be 'significantly in favour' of a scheme within Hollingdean.

This means that work to design a suitable scheme has begun, which will be presented and considered at the next Environment, Transport and Sustainability Committee on 20th September. Full results will be available on the council committee page approximately a week prior to the committee meeting.

Whilst it is not possible to draw further conclusions at this time, it seems extremely likely that we may see (at least in part) the introduction of controlled resident parking in the following months.

It is important to remember that Hollingdean is a large and diverse ward within Brighton. Parking has been a contentious issue here for many years; areas of Hollingdean that border existing parking control schemes in Fiveways and Lewes Road in particular have been outspoken on the issue for many years. Conversely, areas of Hollingdean further North and East (and in particular in the estate itself) have seen very few problems.

This has historically led to a significant split in residents who are desperate for, and who are firmly against, controlled parking within their area.

We expect the council to treat the results of this consultation on a more granular level than seen previously. Rather than introducing (or not introducing) permits across the ward, this would potentially mean new schemes on streets or local areas where support is highest (mainly to the South of Hollingbury Place and to the West of Hollingdean Terrace), and perhaps not where support has proven to be lower.

We feel that this would be a fair solution to a democratic process. However, it would also likely mean further displacement of non-resident parking into areas of Hollingdean (and surrounding) where parking remained uncontrolled.

We wait to hear more from the council in the coming weeks.