Pevensey seems to have gained a new attraction in the shape of the Silver Daweoo parked on the Pavement (and someone has moved it so it’s completely on the footpath) on Bexhill Road. Its now been standing for over two months—writes Robert Slater
A simple matter surely – seems not. Its been reported to Operation Crackdown whose website encourages reporting of anti social driving and abandoned cars and on the East Sussex County Council page states ‘Tired of seeing wrecked and abandoned cars in your neighbourhood?..Don’t put up with it report it’
But nothing has happened. The PCSO went to take a look but evidently explained the car was MOTd and Taxed so nothing could be done (its owner lives outside the district evidently) It now seems the insurance on the car has lapsed or been cancelled and yet it still sits there a hazard to traffic and a definite danger to pedestrians who have to walk in the road to get round the vehicle.
Reported the vehicle to Fix My Street and Wealden’s reply is ‘Thank you for your report of the silver Lanos at Pevensey. We have have visited and accessed the vehicle and found no issues to allow us to investigate it further under the legislation available to us in relation to abandoned vehicles’
One of the problems is the car has obviously broken down (when it was first left I saw someone was standing with the bonnet open looking at engine) so it will not move and Scrap Prices are so low local merchants are often charging people to remove cars. Seems the owner has decided its not worth the £20 to have the car removed so just left it dumped by the roadside though he must be spending that much each month in tax !
If it was an inner city area no doubt the wheels would have gone now -or worse!! Perhaps someone should get a key and let it as a small compact mobile starter home.
There may have been cutbacks but why in a Tourist area is such an unsighlty and dangerous vehicle just left? How long will it stand there, years?
Last week PCSOs were quite rightly ticketing some of the thoughtless parents by Westham School who park on the grass verges and pavements -wonder what their offence was?
A ticket for parking in one place for half an hour but nothing for parking for months completely blocking a footpath a mile down the road. Even the Romans left a lot of traces of their occupation of Pevensey but they didn’t leave any chariots rotting in the Castle.
Perhaps the only answer is everybody report this vehicle and if there are enough complaints something may well be done.
