driveway wars

We had this with a neighbour, we politely used to ask him to move every time he did it. He always pleasantly moved it straightaway. We continued to ask whether we could squeeze out or not. He worked night shift sometimes, so eventually he started parking elsewhere and then changed his vehicle for something smaller.
Definitely ask them to move and keep asking. You need to do it consistently to make it annoy them more than it benefits them. Like a PP said, if you can find a time early morning or late at night, when they are day sleeping from night shift etc. it should help motivate them to go elsewhere.
I would be polite though if you can, nothing worse than rowing with neighbours if you don’t have to. I always thought of it as they were winning the battle edging over my drive but I was winning the war by ultimately stopping them altogether. Good luck OP some people are so selfish.

Let's just hope your NDN isn't a MN'er who doesn't answer the door!

would you say something

Of course. Why would you not? They are blocking your drive way. You struggle to get in.
Are you worried they'll think you're being huffy about them being precious about their new drive? Did they get it done cheaply or something, is that why they're worried about damaging it. I wonder why they didn't put grass on it if they're not actually going to use for cars.

I'm amazed you've let this happen for a month.

Go and tell them not to, politely but firmly, then every time it happens afterwards park on their drive.

Knock and get them to move when they are restricting your access.
Don't mention you'd like space for visitors tho.

I voted YANBU but actually YABU not to nip it in the bud first off as they now have normalised it and think it's OK.

Definitely knock every time and get them to move it.

Better to report to the Parking Enforcement at the Council, more likely to come out and ticket the car.

Or just park on the road where they’re parked. If they ask why tell them you kept being blocked in!

This is yet another one of those threads where I can't understand why you didn't just knock on the door the first time she did it. Every time you let it go without saying something they don't see it as a problem. You've been squeezing your car onto your drive and they'll be aware of it so just think it's fine because you've managed to get on and off the drive.
All you have to do is knock on the door and ask them not to do it. Then if it happens again, knock on the door and ask them to move the car. Repeat until they stop.
If they don't stop then you can think of another strategy but there's no point in thinking of strategies until you've tried the most obvious thing of asking them not to do it. I would imagine that the vast majority of things like this can be solved just by talking to people. Some people might be assholes and continue to park there but in most cases I think people would stop when asked to.

Knock on the door every time and tell them to move the car? It's not your fault they don't all use the drive.

My neighbours few houses down had this issue a year or so back, they called police who said that nobody owns the road outside their home so there’s nothing they can do unless they are entirely blocking their access in which case contact operation crackdown & report it or get in touch with council which they did who told them the same except that if it wasn’t taxed or insured then they could get it towed after trying to find the owners otherwise tough luck basically. It is not illegal & certainly not something that the police should be bothered with but have a word & if they choose to continue to do it then unfortunately you just have to accept it. Don’t start anything petty in retaliation as what starts petty often ends badly

Every single time call over, 'Hi Katie, your car is blocking my drive and I can't get in could you move it please' if she says there is enough room tell her don't think there is and you're worried you will hit her car/ other house hold persons car

Why wouldn't you say something ? 🤔

Is she waiting for the drive to settle for some weird reason or is she never going to use it?

Those pressed concrete drives are very slippery in the frost / wet etc, not that I’m hoping that she slips and gets her comeuppance of course …

But yeah say they are making it difficult/ hazardous for you to get on and off your drive.

It’s illegal to park over a dropped kerb so start there.

I think @DonnaBanana is right, this is going to take more than logic and reasonableness! She won’t let them park on their new drive?! Bonkers!

Of course you need to say something!!!! Go over there and tell them to move their car and not park where they are partially blocking your driveway. They can't just decide to inconvenience you because they don't want to park on their own driveway.

I think you’ll need to get creative. The fact someone has spent lots of money on a DRIVEWAY whose entire job is to be driven on and then refuses to use it shows you are dealing with someone who will struggle with logic.

Each time they block the drive go to their door, I did this with my neighbour, he kept partially blocking our drive with his works van, kept chapping his door, I’d even pop to the shops at 9.30pm just to get him to move his car.

he eventually has learned to park better!

You need to tell them assertively not to park on your dropped kerb, even an inch.

If they continue, start blocking them in.

Go and speak to them, their decision not to park on their drive shouldn't impact on you

OP can you park on the road across/blocking her driveway? You know they won't be using it for access and it kind of makes the point. She might not care but she sounds like just the sort of person who will!

The poster didn't say she would park in the driveway. She said she would be "tempted to". How do you know she "wouldn't" be tempted? I think most of us would be tempted. Doesn't mean any of us would actually do it!

A neighbour got tired of people parking across his driveway and put a couple of wheely bins with some old planks laid between them. He was hoisted by his own petard when he forgot it was there and backed into it when reversing out of his driveway.

The “tempted” and “but … better route” was the clue that the remark was tongue in cheek, not intended to be a serious suggestion.