FOI release

Complaint Data on Driver/Car Behaviour

Case reference FOI2025/01136

Received 3 November 2025

Published 12 November 2025

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am seeking aggregated data regarding public complaints made to Tunbridge Wells 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

See attached spreadsheets

Documents

• FOI202501136.xlsx (10.1 KB)
• Vehicle Noise 2020 to 2025.xlsx (10.3 KB)

This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.