Neighbour using my drive, landlord won’t help. What can I do?

Maybe OP should discuss the problem with ndn’s landlord?
Or;
If it were me, I’d hammer some tall slim cast iron poles into the fence line with each pole woven into (& thus supporting) some lightweight chicken wire.

But, coincidentally, they've chosen the solution with zero effort or inconvenience for them, just for you

How does it inconvenience the OP?

Possession is 9/10ths of the law. Nobody; absolutely nobody and their dog had the right to drive over your driveway. I’d definitely go all out to obstruct them. The staggering sense of entitlement amongst the general population nowadays is absolutely enraging. Ergo, you either get mad, or you join (and beat) them at their own game!

Dear Neighbour
I refer to our conversation of 25 January 2026 in which I informed you that our drive at [ ] (hereunder known as the Toll Crossing) is private property.
If you wish to drive a motor vehicle over the Toll Crossing, then this is available to you subject to payment of a Toll Charge of £10 per crossing, payable by midnight on the date of crossing.
Use of the Toll Crossing without payment of the Toll Charge by the due time will incur an Administration Charge of £150 per crossing.
Use of the Toll Crossing by you in future will be deemed acceptance of these terms.

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Put up a camera if you don’t already have one and enforce this.

Get a few slim planters and park your car on your drive

Bloody hell you should meet my neighbours, we have a separate shared drive in between our houses which can access the back gardens, neither of us use it or park on it, but if anyone parks outside our house and is even an inch across the entrance to the shared drive they come out all guns blazing.

The kicker is, they don't ever use it! They park their only car in front of their house with loads of room in front and behind, but they go apeshit if anyone goes anywhere near it.. it's crazy to me why they would even care.

Sounds like it’s their problem then. He needs to park somewhere else. If they can’t get their own car on their driveway because he’s blocking his own wife from getting in.

The OP views the situation differently from you so you imply she is demented. Demented, really?

The dog situation I would personally find intolerable and disrespectful. I would put some nice sausage down. I think dog owners would suddenly find a way to keep Fido off my private property since the next piece of sausage he eats may not agree with him.

I do think you need to take the Right of Way issue seriously. If you were okay with her using it but didn't want to risk the right of way you could set up a contract for a nominal sum. However, given her behaviour when you had the drive installed, and the way she has totally ignored your request to stop, I would be getting plant pots or something between the driveways ASAP.

Has anyone suggested a penguin bollard?

Park your car right up to tve front border so s/he can't park on your drive

She’s effectively borrowing something of yours without asking first. And you don’t even get on with her.

I wouldn’t like it.

I'm really surprised that this bothers you.
It seems so unimportant.

I think it is extremely obvious that she took to parking on the street because she couldn't access her own drive while yours was being done.

I'd be pissed off with it too, but the only way to stop it is if you put the extremely heavy planter at the very corner of your boundary. Be careful what you wish for though, as people who would cut across someones drive, is also someone who would park her car outside your house and be an arsehole to make a point.

We had a similar problem with a neighbour of ours, with similar drives. They would go over ours a little bit and there was a slight drop and one of the edging bricks that they drove over started to come loose. They technically only had footpath access to their house and relied on goodwill of us and their other next door not fencing to the end of our drives. They overheard me and DH arguing about if we should fence it I think, and stopped doing it. I think all the people minimising it haven’t had anything similar, it was so stressful, a little annoyance that has the potential to be a big problem (cost) just because of someone else’s laziness.

I agree with this so much!

Yes, it's interesting that posters are saying OP is being petty but not that the neighbours are being petty by not bothering to take the fence down.

The van driving partner could also park his van differently or ask the other neighbour to budge along a bit. But, coincidentally, they've chosen the solution with zero effort or inconvenience for them, just for you.

Draw a line. Get those concrete planters. If they'd been super sweet and done years of favours for you, it might be different. But they haven't and they're only concerned about themselves. So be the same.

Think the planters sound like a good idea. Perhaps metal ones. Plastic or ceramic might have an ‘accident’.

I had neighbours like this use to drive me nuts I got massive planters and put them there it stopped them some people are so entitled

OK I understand what you mean about the overhanging van. That does sound a bit annoying in general but I still don't think it's worth souring relations with your neighbour for something that isn't really impacting on you much. The fact you hadn't notice for a long time proves that.

A slim planter is a good way to go. They need to ask their other neighbour not to park over the line. Your neighbours are taking the piss - its extra wear and tear on your drive that will show over time.

Ignore the haters on here, you are well within your rights to be annoyed. Some people have a problem with expecting people to respect boundaries.

I think she’s taking the absolute piss. If she can’t manoeuvre her own car properly then she needs to re take her test. What would she be doing of the fence went right to the end? Parking on your drive? Now that you have noticed what she’s doing nip it in the bud and put planters there.

Omg please update us if she moves the bin. That would be diabolical.

That maybe wasn't her being awkward but an indication that she was using your drive then too - if she couldn't access it, she couldn't use her driveway.

It would annoy me too. If you don't go out much in the car, could you park near the end of your drive to stop her. She will either have to speak to the other neighbour, park elsewhere or ask you to park further back on your drive.