Neighbours from hell.

Keep a record of everything. Report abusive behaviour. Fence and gate your driveway.

Parking over a driveway is extremely annoying, I know because my neighbour does it occasionally but it is not on your property, it’s blocking your entry/exit. The fact that you can’t see how sounding your horn repeatedly could antagonise the already fraught situation whereas offering an olive branch by politely explaining that you’re going out and need them to move shows the common theme with neighbour disputes that both sides feel they’re being reasonable and the neighbours are unreasonable. Maybe consider contacting your local neighbourhood policing team for some advice and mediation.

Not sure if this has already been asked, but can you put a collapsible post on your driveway so they can't use it?

You’d be in “a lot of danger” by knocking but happy to sit and blare a car horn for 10 minutes? 🥴

They sound awful but honestly, you’re not in “a lot of danger” if you’re fine to do that.

I contacted the landlord of the hell hole next door to me at least 5 times and he has never responded. He does not even live in the same city and clearly does not give a damm as long as he gets his rent. Police and Council are more likely to help, but it does take ages. I am in a Selective Licensing area so in theory the council have a lot of powers but so far they have been useless

Report everything, get incident/crime number every time you report them to the police or council. Once you have at least 3 reports within a 6 month period you may be able to apply to the council for a Community Trigger meeting which the relevant authorities have to attend and work out a plan to address the issue. I have vile neighbours and was advised to do this by my Victim Care support worker,( yes things are so bad that I have a support worker) and we are all meeting mid December, Will it make a difference? I have no idea, but at least I feel that I am doing something. Horrible neighbours affect our lives in such a negative way, you have to experience it to realise how awful it is. You have my sympathy OP

I know that they shouldn’t park over it but sounding the horn to get off your driveway is rude. Don’t you knock and ask them to move it?

If it’s got nothing to do with them being bad neighbours then why mention it?

Get your local councillors and MP involved.

Sadly very true. But if they are going to try then they need to get the ball rolling now to still be able to use Section 21.

It takes a while to get people out with s21, and it's now urgent because of the changes so you must contact their LL today so they have enough time to act.

I'd tell the landlords now to get the ball rolling. We got some security cameras that are solar and come with a WiFi hub so no electrics etc and they are great! Can add sd card for storage so no ongoing fee etc. But can use through your phone, record etc. Definitely worth putting up as a deterrent/gathering evidence. You can report to police anti social behaviour too. I think by the time they are parking on your drive, not apologising etc you should start reporting. These things can take time to get anywhere.

The benefits thing is relevant if they’re also unemployed. They’ll have to find somewhere else in London that takes HB so any eviction will take longer. Plus it means they are always there. Don’t have to get up for work so can stay up late.
I feel for you OP.

Stop being slow "I'll contact the landlord if they don't stop". No contact them now. This is urgent. If you think it'll stop you're delusional.
If you don't persuade the landlord to evict now he's going to be stuck with them forever due to law changing.
Plus contacts to council or police go on record if you're trying to sell but phoning the landlord doesn't.
If they don't seem interested phone them every single time the neighbours do something, they'll get off their arses then.
Plus get that camera up this weekend.

If its not clear from the offset, my neighbours don't work and are on benefits (I know because I've heard them gushing over it smh). What a world we live in hey😂

Having suffered from abusive & disruptive neighbours I was with you until this point, whether or not they claim benefits is irrelevant.

All you can do is keep a record of everything and (sadly) start preparing to move. I wouldn’t advise contacting the police unless violence is threatened as there is not much they can actually do. Contact the council as a starting point.

If its not clear from the offset, my neighbours don't work and are on benefits (I know because I've heard them gushing over it smh). What a world we live in hey😂

Sorry OP but what has being on benefits got to do with your neighbour dispute?

You had a point, you should have stuck to it.

Landlord - if a decent one they'd probably be pleased to know what is going on. If they are that disrespectful to their neighbourhood, I bet the house is being trashed too.
And yeah, CCTV, police too if needed. But be prepared for the long haul to fight this. Councils are pretty bad now, they're rarely keen to help but who knows? You may have a member of staff who isn't a lazy git, which has been my experience with my bad neighbours and lack of council help (they are council tenants).
If you own your home, it may be worth getting one of those lockable parking posts for your hubby. The ones you can leave up when you're not at home so nobody can take your space.

Good luck, I know what you're going through. Currently fighting the council with my neighbours on the rubbish issue. Months of rotting food, nappies and spilled rubbish in a shared area and by their back door - which is just the other side of the fence by my back door. It stinks and we also now have a rat problem. Bad neighbours are the pits.

We have been through what you're going through.
Kept noise diary for council, had police out, their landlord came to visit. (We were both renting).
Absolutely nothing helped, in the end it gave us a push to look at our options and we bought our first house and moved.
I don't think they will change, as bad as it is, for your own sanity, move.

I would contact the landlord, we had to for some antisocial behaviour. Turns out we were not the only ones who had made contact and they got rid of them. The landlord had to fix the property as of internal damage, new tenants lovely. So much better if they rent as if they own it’s straight to police and authorities and less hope of a quicker outcome.

I feel for you and your DH, your home is your castle and you just want to relax when you get home.