I am as I have blocked the

[canyou]

road by parking outside my own house.
New neighbour insists on parking his van half on half off the footpath outside his house on double yellow lines his house is across and one house down from me, my side of the road no lines, also he has an empty drive.
I have just arrived home to find him parked again, I am to bloody tired to find somewhere else to park, unload DC and shopping and walk home that I have parked outside my own drive [3 cars in drive] but this means that the front of my car is almost parallel with his van bumper, bikes, motor bike, smart car and pedestrians will fit but not anything else.
DP and Dad are saying I should move my car.
Tell me they are wrong and I am not a grump cow being unreasonable,
{I have keys ready and DC keeping an eye out to check if I need to shift the car for someone}

Report it to police. As it's a double yellow it's in their jurisdiction as opposed to controlled zones etc which are the council's.

However, prepare for a battle for the space in front of your house if he doesn't have the skills to use his driveway.

If you haven't spoken to him yet then don't, just speak with the police, anonymously if you can as you don't want him knowing it was you.

It's a double yellow for this very reason, so I wouldn't feel too bad about it, but wouldn't want to get into a neighbour war over it.

Plausible deniability is what you need to maintain if he asks you about it following his parking ticket/vehicle removal - think like MI5/6.

In fact leave it a week just in case and do what you did before - let it all get back to "normal" first.

What he should have done though (apart from use his empty drive) was park legally on the road in the space outside your house while you were out - he's just as entitled to it as you are. If he had, you'd still be looking for somewhere else to park

create - if you had read the thread you would know that it would not be legal for him to park there because it would be parking across the OP's driveway.

Surely the point of planting things in pots, rather than beds, is you can move them. Your neighbour is mad, buy a cat to dig up the plants and crap in the pots.

my neighbour got a parking ticket for blocking his own drive

he always parked there and the drive was more ornamental with gates to stop his dogs from escaping, and only big enough for a carefully parked mini, not big enough for his merc!

Anyway apparently its not legal to block any drive so he was issued with (and despite protesting had to pay) the ticket

In my old house, I lived on a narrow-ish street....a one car street. The guy opposite me owned a van and my neighbours had 2 cars and the other side had 1. This left a little space for my car (if Mr.Next Door Left didn't put BOTH his cars in the way). I often can't parallel park because of the van restricting my swing.

However, Mr.Next Door Left's son came to stay and parked on the pavement outside my house. I had some steps leading from my front door to the pavement, and he parked over 3/4 of the way. Sick and tired of not fitting the pram through the gap, I rang the police rather than have a confrontation and reminded them that parking on the pavement and restricting access in illegal.

They came out banged on his door and threatened to tow him unless he moved it. Needless to say I never has a problem since.

YANBU ring the police...remember this guy is your neighbour so I wouldn't attempt to piss him off, however a random traffic warden wandering pass wouldn't hurt. The volunteer "hobby bobbies" (the pretend ones) often like to have things to do, so they may send one of them while they fight actual crimes.

couldn't & had

nannyl - I know, it's ridiculous! I didn't think now was a good time to bring it up thought. I wrote and deleted a similar post about 10x yesterday :)

Grrr @ Hobby Bobbies, they actually do a really important valuable job!!

Yellow Lines belong to the council
and obstruction belongs to Police

Plus, you can get a car moved if it blocks you drive and you cant get you car off the drive. But you cant if you need to get ON your drive

understand you getting frustrated with other ignorant road users but don't let him turn you into one!!!
Sadly noone has a right to park infront of their own home unless it is on their own driveway, the roads are for whoever gets their first.

actually he's breaking two bye-laws. Parking on the pavement and parking on a double yellow. Definitely worth reporting on the non-emergency number and/or to the council.

He's not only causing a problem for drivers he's making it impossible for mums with double buggies to get past I guess.

I feel your pain, the area I live in used to be nice but we've got two houses in the close full of chavs people who leave buggies outside, over flowing bins, cars everywhere. Lately they've been yelling in the street at nearly midnight. I've given up, we're moving.