I'll try to set the scene and avoid drip feeding.
Our road is a real mish mash of houses built at different times. The more modern have cobbles to the road edge. We are one of four that were built much earlier. Our four houses have grass verges in front but we each own the land up to the kerb. Two houses have no wall and have incorporated the land into their own. Next door has a wall and a verge. We have a wall and a parking bay - put in by the people we bought from and access by the original dropped kerb to our driveway. There is no pavement on our side of the road all the way along.
500 yards down our road is a long stretch of walled garden with parking for maybe 10 cars alongside.
New people moved in opposite last year - two cars, no parking. The day they moved in I came home and their removal van was parked in our parking bay. Fair enough, moving is hideous so I didn't say anything.
Then they started parking in our parking bay regularly. I went over and explained that we owned the bay and she was really snippy and said "actually roadside parking on a public road is for anyone to use (maybe she reads Mumsnet 
). So I explained that we owned it. This was just after Christmas.
Got home last night - torrential rain, hideous wind and she's parked in my space. So I went over and asked her to move. She huffed and puffed and said "I've had a hard day at work and didn't want to get wet" 
She then went on to say she'd continue to park in it when we weren't using it. I asked her how she supposed she knew my timetable.....
So how do I deal with this now?
AIBU?
To think parking makes people so difficult
Fleta · 13/02/2014 08:43
Send her a copy of your deeds showing that you own the land.
Send your kids over to play in her front garden 
Agree with bollard or lockable chain or similar.
Maybe Laurie actually - that might work. Can you get automatic ones so I don't have to get out of the car in the wet
Maybe I need two bollards!
Forago - it wouldn't quite block the road but would make things diffult for other people - especially as this household in question park one of their cars outside their house (which of course is no problem)
Could you put some rocks or concrete blocks or something along the side so you can only access from your drive? Then if she carries on, you could put a bollard at the entrance too.
My grandad has rocks on the verge outside his house to prevent people parking there, so he expects his visitors to park on other people's instead, but that's a thread in itself
Thank you Seeline - we have a "private parking" sign on the wall and the parking space itself is bricks so its really obvious its not road.
I just wouldn't have the brass neck
Thank you everyone, some good suggestions. YEs we have a PCSO I see pretty regularly so I shall have a word with her.
toastedteacake - I could put I'm really loathe to lose my lovely dry stone wall. I know that sounds so silly but its really pretty 
RunRunRuby - I wouldn't be able to open my car door sadly. Good idea though!
What really irritates me is that we deliberately paid slightly extra for a house that meant we could park both our cars without needing to park on the road. Surely if you pick a house with no parking and two cars you assume you might not always keep dry.....
Definitely keep the dry stone wall. Sounds lovely (Do you have those trailing violas growing in/ on it? Jealous)
If polite conversation and production of deeds doesn't have the desired effect may I suggest a small spillage from your toolbox of an assortment of screws, nails and other sharp objects whilst erecting another 'Keep Off - Private Parking' sign?
A couple of punctures may put her off...
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