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FOI request (FOIR-762202495)
Complaint Data on Driver/Car Behaviour
Requested Tue 09 December 2025
Responded Tue 09 December 2025
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am seeking aggregated data regarding public complaints made to Hastings Borough Council about problematic driver and vehicle behaviour. Please provide, for the years 2020 to the most recent available date, annual totals for:
- Public complaints relating to cars that are excessively noisy, including those believed to be deliberately modified or driven to emit excessive noise (e.g., “boy racers,” “revving engines,” “loud exhausts”).
- Public complaints about antisocial driving behaviours, including but not limited to speeding, street racing, dangerous driving, and use of vehicles in a manner causing harassment, alarm, or distress.
- Any other categories of road-user or vehicle-related nuisance or antisocial behaviour maintained in your records (please specify category name if not obvious).
For each category, please supply:
- The total number of complaints per year (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024/2025 if available).
- The method of reporting (if recorded: e.g., email, hotline, online portal, etc.).
- Any notes on how these issues are classified or defined by your council (if recorded).
- If possible, please provide the response as a structured spreadsheet (CSV or XLSX) with columns: “Year”, “Complaint Type”, “Number of Complaints”, ”Method”, ”Notes” for easier national comparison.
If records are not broken down as requested, please provide whatever aggregated or category-level information is available.
Response
In the first instance these type of complaints would be referred to the police.
Hastings Borough Council does not have a separate complaint category for the requested data.
Highways falls under East Sussex County Council who might hold further information to some parts of this request, please visit their website: www.eastsussex.gov.uk
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