Would a sign like this help make a difference?

[bebeboeuf]

I have a two car side by side driveway.

We have lived in said house 2 years.

Prior to this the house was empty for a year or so and neighbours got used to no one being there and used the drive as they please.

When we first moved in there was the odd occasion when we had to get people to move their cars from off our actual driveway!

Two years on and it’s getting frustrating with people constantly using the pavement outside our drive for drop offs, pick ups and parking to ‘pop in’ and see friends down the road.

Are we doomed to put up with this for the time we live there or is there anything we can do?

We have asked neighbours to not park there and ask that trades / visitors don’t either and that’s as much as I can do there.

Would a small sign saying ‘please do not obstruct this driveway’ be worthwhile?

Has anyone tried one before?
I really didn’t want to go down the signage route but I can’t see any other way.

May I be the first to mention Penguin Bollards?

That’s polite. Two years in I’d be going for...

‘It’s MY driveway not a fucking car park. You WILL be towed’

This is what came up when I searched for penguin bollards

I’ve totally realised that the penguin bollards relates to previous Mn parking thread

Yes bebeboeuf it was an old thread about some cheeky neighbours, but the bollards worked so could be an ideal solution for you!

I'm having the same problems in my new house- even the actual bloody neighbour does it while he just pops in or drops off! Drives me crazy. I've started leaving very polite but passive aggressive notes on their wind screens!

I have a similar problem OP. My drive is the whole width of my house - three cars wide. The previous owner only had one car so used to let the neighbours park there. I have three vehicles so need all of my spaces. For ages the neighbours kept parking on my drive. Their daughter refused to move her car, whinging “Mr Ahmed always let me park there”. Well Mr Ahmed sold his house and I need those spaces so stop parking on my property!

In the end they got sick of me knocking at inconvenient times and asking them to move (purposely at midnight or 4am etc haha) so they did stop parking on my drive. But now they park on the public road obstructing access to my drive. Never across the full width, just across one or two of my three spaces. Technically I can get out if I move car no1 and reverse car no2 out of the gap then put car no1 back etc. But it’s massively annoying. And difficult to stop because they’re on the public road and my drive isn’t fully blocked.

A H bar marking might be a good investment

Check with your local council - in our area, we can register our dropped kerbs then, if anyone blocks them even a little bit, the council will give them a parking fine. ..